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Old 12-11-2006, 03:26 AM
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food for thought:
there's something like 4096 tiles. A truecolor png goes up to 1667408 or so colors. Would it be better to make a generator that reads in every tile (so you can draw it up pixel-by-tile) or another like the one we got (where it only even Kinda works as if you're using the default tileset lineup)?

If it were set up so it went tile (0,0) = Red0, Green0, Blue0 and tile (5,5) = Red80, Green0, Blue80...you could hypothetically edit your entire overworld as an imagefile in shades of purple...you'd just need a damn good head for "fuchsia = darkwater stone, top left corner"

Methinks the ideal would be a big-dumb-generator that makes an Empty Field GMAP, then an editor where you can zoom out and draw cliffs like the old scripted dirthpaths...
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