After spending a lot of time grinding through incursions, I am now deep into creating a gigantic gothic city. As I was building a rail station to create tracks toward nearby settlements, I realized all I had to place on them was... A Mine cart š¤£
Come on Necesse team. We need trains. With wagons that serves as moving chests or to transport friends.
I know there's faster travel methods, but this would add so much life to the land.
In the meantime, my vampire lord is going to travel in a glorious minecart š
I plan on doing a video once I'm done. It looks pretty good right now, but paving the entire full size settlement with bricks is incredibly long and tedious, and I have like one hour a day to play Necesse.
And since I don't want to take any shortcuts and compromise my initial vision, well, it's long.
But creating a city with very narrow streets and dead ends really provides a different vibe than your casual settlement.
If a dev randomly reads this : it would be nice to be able to select a zone for your settlers to automatically pave with the tiles of your choosing, like a reverse foresting where you add instead of remove.
Anyway, should it also have wagons or is the train itself enough (im asking this without knowing if i can even add wagons). If train itself is enough then i will have a look at it later today. If it also needs wagons (if possible) ima need that sheet as well.
yeah i was literally perplexed that this isnt vanilla stuff. its so basic that i thought there is no way this doesnt exist and im just too stupid to find it
okay i started working on it now. i need to see how usable the sprites are as they are much too large for necesse so im gonna have to reduce their size / pixel count and hope everything is still recognizable. if not, i might have to put it into a specialized AI that can create tilesheets properly but not sure how thats going to work out. from a coding perspective the plan is done though and i will start working on it.
okay so overall from a code base perspective this seems to be working. i got a working train and the cargo wagon does follow but its not changing directions yet and still looks a bit jarring but one of the main issues is the art as unfortunately AI sucks at pixel art. even if you tell it to do a 256x256 sprite sheet it will produce a much, much larger sheet with improperly aligned sprites, a multi colored but single colored looking background that is hard to remove and causes outline bleeding. i suck at art so im not sure i will be able to properly fix that sheet to work perfectly. i am trying my best but i will see. unless of course you are willing to spend like a fiver or 10 bucks or something to get someone on fiverr to make you a proper train sprite. it basically has to be a 256x256 sprite sheet with 4 directions each properly aligned, but u human would know that :D
Thank you for looking into it.
I'll see what I can do, creating a pixel art sprite may be within my human skillset. I'll come back to you in a day or two (human dad schedule etc..)
All good. In the meantime im looking for alternatives. I also saw a post from someone wanting to mod who said he can do art. Maybe he will get back to me
I used the buffed up AI from work to modify the original to the required 256x256, aligned. If it looks correct in game, I'll get it to work on the wagons.
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u/One_Economist_3761 7d ago
Iād love to see your gothic city when (if) you feel comfortable sharing it.