New 'Common' Style

[92Dexter11]

Hey everyone!

I'm pleased to announce a new ongoing project, dex_common.

This style was made alongside a new set of 'Lemmings Faithful' styles. Those styles are nearing completion, but I thought I'd release this one earlier, as it's a little different from all other projects that I've done so far.

It is intended to be an ongoing style of mine, which I will occasionally update with new objects, hence why I felt it necessary to make a separate forum thread.

This style isn't really a 'true' style, as it is intended to be a supplement to be used alongside another style, since it mainly contains generic objects and a few useful terrain pieces.
To clarify, each of the 'original' and 'ohno' themes from the original lemmings games use 8 unique colours for their terrain. However, for objects, they also use 6 'common' colours that are found across all styles:



The 6 'common' colours - red, yellow, green, blue, grey and white.


Included in dex_common are a bunch of objects that only use these 'common' colours.
These new objects are therefore compatible palette-wise with all the 'orig' and 'ohno' styles, as well as all existing 'lemmings faithful' styles, and are intended to be used alongside them!

Here's a little preview of some of the objects

Also included are a few generic backgrounds. I didn't feel like adding these backgrounds to any of my existing styles, since I don't think backgrounds fit with the 'faithful' theming. However, I have received requests to make backgrounds, so I felt including them here would be a good compromise. Each background uses a separate palette from all existing styles, but are limited to only 8 colours each to try and make them as 'retro' as possible. I tried to make them either as dark or as low-contrast as possible to be unobtrusive.

(Hint: use the 'background_bgdrop' object of dex_common alongside existing objects, as some objects use transparency to act as negative space.)

orig_fire's exit is a good example of an object using transparency as 'negative space'

Here's a link to the style:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/92xtqstyhm0tiureenjt4/dex_commonV1.zip?rlkey=t54ufspkhb2zkj9vvdr2gkq84&st=l7ssyzvh&dl=1

Let me know what you think, or if there are any errors!