Proudly present..
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 2:27 pm
.. the first version of the Imperialism Continuous Tiles Tester.
It's for download. It works, all the six parts are assembled according to the neighbors. This is exactly the same as we found out by ourselves and as it was done in the original Imperialism.
What you can do is specify three files, a base terrain file, an inner and an outer terrain file (of the terrain type you want to work on). Then you can specify a pattern (left, upper pattern board). Clicking switches the tile from base terrain to inner/outer terrain and vice versa. Below you see the resulting image in staggered layout, the layout we use.
Some important points:
- The selected images can be any size, do not scale them, they are scaled internally.
- If they are changed outside you can reload them with the 'update' button.
- You need to make two files for every terrain type now. One for being 'inside' a continuous area and one for being 'outside'. However the symmetries are that any of the six parts (see here) must be possible to be replaced with parts from inner or outer tile without any break in the symmetry. Additonally inner tiles must seamless connect on the outer edges. Creating such graphics is probably still not a simple task but this tool is intended to help.
Imperialism Continuous Tiles Tester
Ven, I hope you can work with this. As soon as you deliver a set of tile graphics, I will switch to the display of continuous tiles in the main programm. I hope you can manage to make such graphics. Let me know if there is any improvement I could make on the tile tester!
It's for download. It works, all the six parts are assembled according to the neighbors. This is exactly the same as we found out by ourselves and as it was done in the original Imperialism.
What you can do is specify three files, a base terrain file, an inner and an outer terrain file (of the terrain type you want to work on). Then you can specify a pattern (left, upper pattern board). Clicking switches the tile from base terrain to inner/outer terrain and vice versa. Below you see the resulting image in staggered layout, the layout we use.
Some important points:
- The selected images can be any size, do not scale them, they are scaled internally.
- If they are changed outside you can reload them with the 'update' button.
- You need to make two files for every terrain type now. One for being 'inside' a continuous area and one for being 'outside'. However the symmetries are that any of the six parts (see here) must be possible to be replaced with parts from inner or outer tile without any break in the symmetry. Additonally inner tiles must seamless connect on the outer edges. Creating such graphics is probably still not a simple task but this tool is intended to help.
Imperialism Continuous Tiles Tester
Ven, I hope you can work with this. As soon as you deliver a set of tile graphics, I will switch to the display of continuous tiles in the main programm. I hope you can manage to make such graphics. Let me know if there is any improvement I could make on the tile tester!