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Just made an imagemagick-based shell script that converts the 3.1-style texpages into 2.3-style tilesets. This allows to easily produce some high-resolution textures for warzone2100-2.3.

• fancy-complete-0-5.wz

  A global mod for v2.3.9

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Separate tileset mods:

• Arizona v0.5
• Urban v0.5
• Rockies v0.5
• Paradise: replaces Arizona tileset.
• Volcanic: replaces Arizona tileset.

Arizona tileset, generated almost fully automatically based on the 3.1 data; only cliffs were altered by hand.

• fancy-arizona-0-5.wz

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Here's a similar re-make of urban tileset.

• fancy-urban-0-5.wz

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It also helped me to find a little bug in 3.1 ground types.

Finally, here is the UNIX shell script i made to produce these tiles. It's fairly simple, just around 120 lines.

v0.2: changes concrete tile handling to produce bigger tiles, since they suffer the most from downscaling, while suffering the least from non-seamless tiling.

v0.3: downscale textures to reduce tiling due to 8-pixel dead zone in 2.3 textures; make sure the water tile is semitransparent.

v0.5: make pixels in the dead zone opaque.

Usage:

• install ImageMagick
• unzip the archive into some empty folder as, for example, make.sh file.
• then adjust the first lines of the script, mostly to point BASEDIR to the warzone data directory (you can make a copy of it too, it needs texpages and tileset folders)
• run as:

  Code: Select all

  sh make.sh 1 2 3

  to make all tilesets. The mods will be produced in the same directory. You can remove some of these numbers to make only some tilesets.
• If you want to force certain tiles to look exactly as you like, put your tiles into decals/1/ subfolder of the folder where the script is present for arizona, decals/2/ for urban, decals/3/ for rockies, as i did with cliffs.
• The script produces 8-bit paletted PNG files. If you want 32-bit PNGs, change PNG8: to PNG32:. But don't expect it to fit into the forum attachment limit!

Here's the script itself:

• script.zip

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Nice, now those diehard 2.3.9 fans can stop crying over being left out of the pretty pretty tiles

Finally, here is an attempt on rocky mountains.

• fancy-rockie-0-5.wz

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Here is a different approach to arizona, with cliffs based on the same decal tile by Jorzi.

• fancy-arizona-0-2.wz

Just wanted to ask which one is better. Also, it includes a concrete tile fix: now concrete tiles are of a reasonable size (not scaled down; the same applies to the rockies tileset above).

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Urban looks really good. Others.. not so much, looks a little cartoonish I think. I think its mostly the cliffs that look out of place. Can't wait to see whats next

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Interesting solution NoQ. I like it.

Paradise tileset for v2.3!
Replaces Arizona tileset, doesn't affect any other tilesets.

• paradise23.mod.wz

  a global mod for v2.3.9

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Based on this 3.1 tileset mod.

Volcanic tileset for v2.3 as well.
Replaces Arizona tileset, doesn't affect any other tilesets.

• volcanic23.mod.wz

  a global mod for v2.3.9

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Based on this v3.1 tileset mod.

Updated arizona, urban and rockies to v0.4 (in their respective messages; decided not to allocate more messages).
Rockies make a bit more sense now.

I also noticed that 2.3 has a 8-pixel dead zone in its tiles and adjusted the script accordingly.

Great work, NoQ.