The Arcadia Tileset is the result of an attempt at creating a "living city." It is a re-texturing of the default NWN City Exterior tileset.
During the creation, I focused strongly on trying to create a mish-mash of different styles that, while different, still worked well together. I've tried to create a city that appears to be the result of a hundred different stonemasons: Elaborate stonework, wrought-iron filigree and engravings abound, but they are mixed with decaying brickwork, rotting wood, sunbaked clay shingles and cobbles. Obviously within the framework of a tileset (and a re-texturing of one at that), only so much is possible to avoid homogeneity. In the end, though, I'm satisfied that I've created an attractive-looking city to work with, and that's what matters most. The ultimate goal of this tileset, additionally, is to provide something akin to the ancient cities of the Mediterranean - places like Venice, Zadar and Athens where art and history are ingrained into the very stone upon which the city is built.
Thanks and credit go to:
-DLA, CODI and Obsidian for their Sigil Tilesets, TNO Tilesets and NWN2, from all of which I drew screenshots and textures which I have incorporated into this (All textures, save for a few, have been extensively modified).
-ThallionStellani's NWAlleys, which are used here.
-The real life masons, artisans and craftsmen whose work I've taken pictures of off the net and used here (Again, modified extensively to fit into the tileset).
-The kind and helpful people of Bioware's NWN Custom Content forum.
12/8/07: Updated hak with some bugfixes and basic changes to improve the tileset in subtle ways. Courtesy of _sixesthrice_, thanks go to him for the hard work. Full listing of all changes is available in the below changelog.
1/26/08 -
s030363l has made a new minimap for the tileset, which is now included.
1/13/10 -
I've updated the tileset according to some of the more popular request comments. Some low-res textures have been replaced with higher resolution ones, and there are new roofs and new ground cobbles. The old tileset will still be available if you prefer the old look.
7/21/2011 -
The very excellent Sethan has been so kind as to update the tileset with all the tiles added to the City Exterior in patch 1.69, along with various bugfixes to the alley terrain. Thanks so much, man! It is now available for download below.
TERMS OF USE: The original content in this tileset is copyrighted. What that means is, this content is free to use, you are free to modify it in part or in whole as long as you give credit to where the source material came from. However, I ask that it not be included in any compilation haks without express permission from me. Thanks very much in advance for your understanding.
Thanks for the 10! _________________________ Arcadia City Tileset
Posted by Graymaster at on03/15/09
See what happens when you are no longer able to type for yourself - they forget to vote!
Posted by stubbytroll at on07/27/08
Some very nice detailing on the stonework. Impressive reskin. _________________________ My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance.
Posted by Squatting at 2008-07-1520:46:55
Hmm... that high of resolution should be enough. Ah, the problem was the railings on the Building tiles. They look good close up, but from farther away they are ringed with a grey halo. That and the Cobble terrain looks overly flat. If those two things were fixed, I'd use it. A lot. _________________________ Shadows Silver PW Development Blog
Posted by ValynDyral at on03/16/09
Approx. half the textures are 512x512, the others are 256x256. I might eventually make a higher res version of the tileset, is there is sufficient interest. Right now, however, the tileset itself seems to be a relatively unnoticed submission to the vault (230ish downloads) so the demand doesn't really seem to be there at this time. _________________________ Arcadia City Tileset
Posted by Squatting at 2008-06-1317:27:30
Quite nice. The Vault needs more original creations like this. My one problem, though, is that the textures are fairly low res. Because of that, I really can't use them. :( _________________________ Shadows Silver PW Development Blog
Posted by ValynDyral at on03/16/09
That's fantastic news! Thank you very much for the honor. _________________________ Arcadia City Tileset
Posted by BenWH at 22:50:13 Voted8.50
Congratulations, this submission is a finalist for the Best Tileset Golden Dragon Award for 2007. _________________________ Works of B G P Hughes: Link AME Chairman
Posted by Catoptromancer at on05/29/08
Um,love it :) Ten for you!
Posted by Solarwind at on04/26/08
This is really nice, I love the colours and the stained glass. I don't really like the metal grille pattern, but that's just me. It's still the prettiest city reskin I've ever seen. I've got one request, though - some of the tiles that still have grass, such as tfc_01_c02_03 look kind of awkward. Could you either extend or remove the grass?
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