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[Seiseki]

My example was Minecraft since it's easy to switch texture resolutions in that game now, but I see the exact same thing in the mock-ups posted here: The fat pixels posted make the world feel smaller compared to the previous huge pixels.

Wait..What is the difference between fat and huge pixels I don't get it?

[Joshua]

When I can't sleep, I make art...

[Quarry]

is dat sum starshock m8

[Joshua]

No, it's not Starshock. It began as a handful of temporary tiles for Night District, and I keep finding myself adding stuff every now and then. Not really a project, just for fun.  

[Quarry]

Jokes aside looks very cool, has a nice consistent style

[Joshua]

Working on the armor sets for Delver. I'm wondering if I should also make the armor sizes also reflect their importance.

Leather < Chain < Plate < Golden Plate

Thoughts?

[Skizomeuh]

I love the armor sets. Though, talking about size, I find strange heavy armors don't have hips parts as the lighter ones do.

I find gold set a little too unused to be found as is in the deeps of the dungeons.


By the way, I'm fond of mobs animations, and weapons positions/animations put in the Halloween update are really going the right way.

[Joshua]

Click to enlarge.

Working on some low poly modular environment assets to add some interest to the depths of Delver. Building to the grid and snapping is a beautiful thing. I need to rework the texture on the larger column, it's temp/wip for now.

[Whiteclaws]

Wow , rad stuff everywhere

[Joshua]

Some offhand items for Delver.

@Whiteclaws
Thank you very kindly.

[Whiteclaws]

no, thank you sir for blowing our minds

I feel like the cup would be better if it had a bit of depth

[michelmohr]

Love your pixel work!
I hadn't seen that scifi scene before, love it!

Do you stick to a specific palette for projects?

[Joshua]

Demo: Photoshop Index Painting with DawnBringer's 32 Color Palette

I've been experimenting with a way to improve Dan Fessler's HD Index Painting technique. More specifically, how to remove the single color ramp limitation. Doing this will allow painting with an entire palette on a single layer.

What makes this work is replacing the color ramp with a specially generated color lookup table. I've hacked together a proof of concept tool for generating a lookup table from a palette file. If folks are interested, I may write a proper tool to create these type of tables.

The demo above is a illustrates painting over a color that has a similar value but different hue. This is unique to my approach.

[Quarry]

I waited for the GIF to end and it didn't, I'm more impressed at the magical compression there rather than your work

[Geti]

Please do I found the single colour ramp thing very restrictive so would be keen to use a more general technique to get the basics down at least, even if it required a bit of clean up later.

[DanFessler]

Demo: Photoshop Index Painting with DawnBringer's 32 Color Palette

I've been experimenting with a way to improve Dan Fessler's HD Index Painting technique. More specifically, how to remove the single color ramp limitation. Doing this will allow painting with an entire palette on a single layer.

What makes this work is replacing the color ramp with a specially generated color lookup table. I've hacked together a proof of concept tool for generating a lookup table from a palette file. If folks are interested, I may write a proper tool to create these type of tables.

The demo above is a illustrates painting over a color that has a similar value but different hue. This is unique to my approach.

You have no idea how long I've looked for ways to convert index palette files into a CLUT.  You sir have my mad respect.  I'd love playing with this.

Edit: I can imagine the biggest problem with this process would be in inability to modify the palette easily as you're working?

[Joshua]

Thanks for the kind words!

I wrote a script that generates a LUT using a nearest neighbor match against a given palette. So it takes something like this:



And converts it to:



You are correct that you cannot easily edit the palette. Which is a pretty big drawback. You'd have to export the new palette, run it through the script, and then update the LUT. Ideally all this would live inside of Photoshop. I'll take a look at the Adobe Photoshop SDK documentation and see if it is feasible.

[michelmohr]

I've been experimenting with a way to improve Dan Fessler's HD Index Painting technique. More specifically, how to remove the single color ramp limitation. Doing this will allow painting with an entire palette on a single layer.
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I would love to try that, I saw Dan Fessler's technique, but it was too confusing for me.
(Also, I found that colour palette a few weeks ago, it's amazing. A Minecraft texture pack was using an extended version of it (to 128) which is just perfect. Pixel daydream )

[Seiseki]

Really cool stuff! 

[JobLeonard]

Are those Voronoi diagrams I'm seeing? How do you calculate the pallette?