Well, then - it's about time I created my own graphic set thread
. Those of you who have downloaded Lemmings World Tour, or, more specifically, my entire style folder to go along with it, already have the Instruments tileset, but I'm going to upload it here separately again so that it's easily accessible for everyone, rather than coming as a hidden "gift" inside that folder.
The red Stratocaster is a Wikimedia Commons picture created by Johan Förberg.
God gave Rock 'n Roll to you (Lemmings World Tour)Note that this tileset is only called "Instruments"; I didn't know of the rule to put the username before it at the time of creation. I did change the name to "strato_instruments" for the New Formats conversion, but all Old Formats levels in Lemmings World Tour refer to "Instruments".
(The New Formats version is going to be uploaded soon, once I've gone through all the remaining steps Nepster put on that conversion list
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While Instruments is just a collection of pieces copied and pasted together, and made up of largely huge elements to get a somewhat reasonable resolution, I also made my first attempt this evening to create a tileset entirely of sprites of my own. Even though I only have an ancient version of Photoshop (7.0), a couple of standard blending effects, like drop shadows and bevel and emboss, already do their part in making the graphics a little more lively
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I felt I wanted to have a teal graphic set, since that is a colour barely used so far. Teal and golden came together, and in a matter of a couple of hours, this Money tileset was born!
It's a rich Lem's worldThe water was made red because... there's blood on a lot of money that goes around the world!
I even managed to create a little animation for the wheel of that vault on the right spinning as the locked exit opens
. But that's kind of the peak of what I'm able to do animation-wise at the moment!
This graphic set doesn't have own unlock buttons, just a locked and a regular exit. But I've found that the golden unlock buttons from namida's Clockwork graphic set (as one appears in the example above) goes well with this colour scheme.
Instruments is finished as a tileset, since it has been used for multiple levels in Lemmings World Tour, so there will not be any further additions to it.
Money, however, is a work in progress at this point, so feel free to make further suggestions!
For example, I thought about adding a diamond, if I manage to paint one convincingly. Once I've decided that the list of pieces and objects is final, I'm of course going to create a New Formats conversion of it, as well
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