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Tile Questions

July 25th 2009, 09:36 AM
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mkbul
Peasant He/Him Greece
TPA~ 
I want to ask some questions here about tiles...

~ What is the best software to make dink tiles?
~ Is there any tutorial on how to make them?
~ Ive tried the water cliff tiles instead of the fire tile, but instead of showing the water cliff one it showed again the fire tile! What am i doing wrong?

Thanks for answering
July 25th 2009, 11:17 AM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
Love! True love! 
1) MSPaint? Irfanview?
2) Not that I'm aware of
3) Are the water cliff tiles in your tile folder, and what did you name the file?
July 25th 2009, 11:21 AM
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mkbul
Peasant He/Him Greece
TPA~ 
1. Thanks
3. Oh i see
3. The tile is in my tiles folder. Folder = Tiles, Tile = ts20
July 25th 2009, 11:27 AM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
Love! True love! 
What format is the file? It needs to be a bitmap image (.bmp). Oh, and just to make sure, all off the fire tilesets show up, right? The cliff tiles don't appear anywhere, correct?
July 25th 2009, 02:24 PM
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mkbul
Peasant He/Him Greece
TPA~ 
Correct.

And it is bmp file
July 25th 2009, 02:50 PM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
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I don't know then. The only thing I can think of is try changing the size of the file with MSPaint, and try changing where it appears. Try TS17.
July 26th 2009, 09:43 AM
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mkbul
Peasant He/Him Greece
TPA~ 
didnt work either 0.o
July 26th 2009, 10:34 AM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
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Try creating a new DMOD with the skeleton that the tiles are in. Make sure you save all your current progress.
July 26th 2009, 02:23 PM
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Do the new tiles show up at all? In the editor, in the game?

If not, it's incredibly likely that something isn't named right. If you have the "hide extensions for known file types" box checked in folder options, and you named the tile "ts20.bmp", it might actually be "ts20.bmp.bmp".