Out with the old, in with the older Well, that's it. I've had enough! *stomps his feet* During the development of Fate of the Auren, I've made use of two external tilesets to help populate the final tale of the trilogy - Lord of Worm's Seasonal Tileset and Cypress Tileset. I've spent the past week and a half removing one of them, which was a lot of work having to go back and redesign each area using a replacement tileset. Thankfully, there were not that many placeables with a high z-axis that required fixing, so it just came down to a lot of copy and paste, ambient and diffuse colour placement, as well as triggers, waypoints and scripts that help populate each area. It's still a time consuming task which takes away from the train of thought that I need to continue pushing out conversations, journals, and plots that help bring the adventure and areas together, but it needed to be done. So for anyone who happened to download Lord of Worm's Cypress Tileset v2.0, I've axed it from Fate of the Auren. Why? Well, the intention was to upgrade it to the latest version, which sadly has not come to surface after a 2009 mention it would be released very, very soon. Now I do like the Cypress Tileset a lot! It's able to create a wonderful atmosphere and it's not like it didn't lack anything I needed specifically to tell the story. BUT ... a few tiles were hard to move along depending on how the area was laid out, such as a log crossing or even the wooden planks which made a bridge from one tile to the other. This caused the annoying Neverwinter Nights movement "no-no sound", despite being able to move through using the WASD keys. In the hope version 3.0 was to be released, I held off from developing a particular region and I can't justify sitting on it any longer. I've integrated a smaller 2meg tileset into the main Fate of the Auren hak to replace the Cypress Tileset. That brings Fate of the Auren down an extra download. Instead of four, it's now three. Lord of Worm's Seasonal Tileset [REQUIRED] Fate of the Auren HAK [REQUIRED] Fate of the Auren Music [RECOMMENDED] Here's a few before and after shots now that all the work is complete with this revamp.   |
