Salem

While working on my upcoming texture-pack, I noticed that the terrain-files "Fen" and "Fen2" were the ones which contained the textures used in the "Mixed Woodlands" aka "Witche's Hat Forest".

I find this...odd to say the least, but it's good to know!

Other texture-names that don't match the generally accepted names:

-"Brush" is what we know as Badlands or Desert.

-"Leaf" is what we call Autumnal Woods.

-"Oldblack" seems to be Coniferous forest.

Less surprising names are:

-"Stone": Pavement/Cobblestone.

-"Mountain": our Stone Quarry

-"Gravel": that dark stuff you can see some places in Boston

Cool, very interesting.

I want to hear more about this custom texture pack

I've been trying to reduce the resolution on textures to be as low as possible without looking like ass. 8x8 doesn't leave much room for "distinctiveness" to make each tile look like the thing it's supposed to represent. Wood planks were a bit challenging.

Hans_Lemurson wrote:I've been trying to reduce the resolution on textures to be as low as possible without looking like ass. 8x8 doesn't leave much room for "distinctiveness" to make each tile look like the thing it's supposed to represent. Wood planks were a bit challenging.

YES PLEASE!

I'd love to see an 8x8 texture pack! I use the 11x11 pack now just so I can run two clients at a decent frame rate, but it looks not very good. Let me know if you need any help! I'm not very good with high-color pixel art, but I'll do whatever I can.

I had no idea there were custom texture packs. I've been trying to fiddle with the video settings so it runs smoothly but doesn't get all pixalated.
where do you get them and how do they work?

They are found in the [url=http://forum.salemthegame.com/viewforum.php?f=11]Artifice & Arcana[url] forum. Basically you download a zip file and decompress it to your Salem directory. It provides overrides for the resources bundled within the jar files.

See each individual post for installation instructions.

qbradq wrote:

Hans_Lemurson wrote:I've been trying to reduce the resolution on textures to be as low as possible without looking like ass. 8x8 doesn't leave much room for "distinctiveness" to make each tile look like the thing it's supposed to represent. Wood planks were a bit challenging.

YES PLEASE!

I'd love to see an 8x8 texture pack! I use the 11x11 pack now just so I can run two clients at a decent frame rate, but it looks not very good. Let me know if you need any help! I'm not very good with high-color pixel art, but I'll do whatever I can.

Where is this pack you speak of?

I personally would love to see a Remake of the textures, much like Haven and Hearth orientated. That would be awesome

The OP is working on a low-res texture pack.

Hans, got any Previews currently of your work? I'd love to see some sort of ingame screenshot.