[Adonthell-artwork] Grass texture v.0.1

[James Nash]

Hi all,

As I mentioned before I'm working on a grass texture.

What I have so far is 8 rows of blades of grass which are intended to  
be used as vertical layers and a basic earthy background that will be  
the ground beneath the grass. The resulting mapobject will occupy 120  
x 80 pixels (or 3 x 2 tiles) on the ground.

I put together a quick fakeshot to see how it looks when it is tiled:

I've positioned NG between layers of grass so his feet are obscured  
by the layers in front of him. I'm hoping that it will look exactly  
like this in-game eventually.

It will be interesting to see how it looks when he moves through the  
grass vertically. As he passes vertical layers of grass his feet will  
suddenly jump in front or behind a layer. Since the layers are quite  
closely stacked in this case (10 pixels between each row) and each  
layer is partially obscured by its previous layer I'm hoping that  
this effect won't be too obvious and it will still look nice!


All in all I'm fairly pleased with this first cut (no pun intended!).  
Looking at the fakeshot there's a few improvements I want to make  
though before I consider this complete:

- Improve the ground texture (it's pretty much the artistic  
equivalent of a hack right now). This is important since it can be a  
ground texture on its own too.

- Add some soft shadows between and below the layers of grass. This  
ought to give it a greater feeling of depth.

- Produce a few variants of the basic grass tile. They can vary from  
variations in the grass blades or extra decorations such as flowers,  
stones, mushrooms etc. Dropping in a few of these when making a large  
grassy area on a map will make the repetition of the tiles less obvious.


As always, feedback and ideas are most welcome!

Regards,
                        - James
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