Watered Down Pics1

Content Development Graphic Design
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Why?

I don’t have a good answer. Here’s an excuse.

We all know it’s ugly.
This halfass, but extensive, watering down of the palette is suitable to my tastes.

Maybe you’ll try it out.

This is only the first chunk, I’ll do it chunk by chunk until I finish it.

NPC required for addtiledef2, here is my NPC for that.
I put my images in world/tiles/ as a custom directory for tileset chunks.

// NPC made by gllt if (created) { hide; removetiledefs; addtiledef2 chunk1.png,,0,0; addtiledef2 chunk2.png,,256,0; }

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Here’s chunk2. Renamed the files to start from 1 instead of 0. I just like 0.

Anyway, just so someone gets it, I’m not just applying photoshop filters to large hunks of the pics1.png and pasting it back over with an npc.

What I’m trying to do, which by the way I just noticed some errors in this chunk maybe that I need to fix, is lower the amount of colors per object instead of en masse. I’m not even doing these whole chunks one at a time. I select each tile and find the colors I want for that object, then I save that palette and reapply it where applicable. I need to work on the wood in this chunk to match the tree wood in the first chunk better. I noticed a bottom of a tree in this chunk, I held it over my tree in the first chunk and it didn’t match… but I’m not sure what that trunk is for anyhow.

So yeah, this probably looks like I just limited the amount of colors or used something like cutout… but I’m not.

Sometimes two thing share colors but I don’t want that color on one thing. The trees, the cliffs, and a lot of brown things… I want the cliffs to have some things the trees don’t, or maybe the blue rocks share a highlight with another object that I want off the rocks but I want to keep on the other object.

If that wasn’t the case, fuck yeah photoshop filters

But it won’t take that long. A chunk a day or more, it’s the individual tweaking… I’ll have to come back and clean up each chunk. I also changed the house to remove the door obviously, that’s because I want to use my own npc doors anyhow and I hate the normal door. I also removed other ornaments of the house. I’m gonna do this to a few other objects like push/pull blocks.

EDIT: Uh oh, no auto double post merging. I’m sorry. :<
Anyway, see the pot in chunk 2 and the yellow stuff at the bottom? That’s a good example. The pot had more yellows and reds, I removed a lot of them. I did it to the pot only. Had I removed the same yellows, the things at the bottom probably would’ve been more affected.

Also the highlight on the yellow is shared with a lot of other stuff that I don’t want to have that shade of white on them.

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gllt that makes me want to paint with watercolor, nice job. :stuck_out_tongue: