Lava tiles

[dd]

How about just making new lava tiles? Something like this:

[roctavian]

I think I'd personally like to see lava that is mostly black with only a hint of brightness -- more like this than like what it is currently, but that aesthetic might be hard to express in Crawl. I'd suggest shifting all the lava tiles more toward the red/orange end of the spectrum, with lava monsters more toward the yellow/orange end -- but that might look too mustard/ketchupy. I will probably make a go at sprucing up the monsters.

[dd]

Two more lava alternatives:

Lava2

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Example

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Lava3

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Example

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(hm... maybe this lava thing should be split to it's own thread...)

[darksquall]

Adders , big fishes and other green creatures are very hard to see in the sewer .

[dd]

How about animated lava?

[darksquall]

How about animated lava?

This lava is amazing

[galehar]

How about animated lava?

Could work but with a much more subtle effect. And I like lava2 more btw. And it might be even better if the bright parts had a subtle animation.

[dd]

Ok, so how's this...

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[galehar]

That's good. But maybe keep the dark parts dark, and animate only the bright parts instead. To make them shining a bit.

[Stormfox]

Right, when you're looking at an active lava flow, the dark patches stay very dark.

[dd]

How's this

[galehar]

That's really great!
Thanks!

[dd]

np.

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=5875

[Grimm]

dd your lava tiles are incredible.

[dd]

dd your lava tiles are incredible.

Well I just took the existing ones and tweaked them a bit...

I don't know if the tiles should be "synced" the way they're in my animations though? Would it look more natural if they were all slightly out of phase with each other?

[Deimos]

Having them out-of-sync would add too much going on on the screen at once, imho.

[rebthor]

Having them out-of-sync would add too much going on on the screen at once, imho.

I don't know. It should be out-of-sync if you name your character acidrobin