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Thank you for the kind words!

I've actually got almost what you ask for on hand. Check these out:

With these, it's possible to draw the vanes overtop of the windmill then rotate / angle the vanes via code. Not a frame animation, but it should be able to do what you ask. Does that help? 

Well. In short, no (because I'd have to redraw everything). 

The long answer is that the aesthetic embraces the "tileness" so that you don't have to worry about transitions between the tiles because it'd add a huge amount of time cost to the art and implementation - or compromises would have to be made in terms of range of biomes, or in terms of the rendering of the art. Basically I tried to make these as accessible as possible to as many games and developer skill levels as possible.

The solution I would offer is if someone wanted to take these tiles and modify them for their own implementation, it'd take some work on their part, and require art skill, but it is an option.

Unfortunately, no. 

I'll explain: doing a seamless terrain style would require a re-design of the basic assumptions of the set, or a ton of additional asset requirements (by a factor of more than 2, at the very minimum). To avoid that, I could draw all basic land as the same biome - but that's contradictory to having all the deserts, marshes, snow, etc, or I would have to create transition edge sprites for *all* basic terrain types (and there are an awful lot), ...or I'd have to redraw all terrain types as seamless textures (plus variations?) while unloading transition effects onto the graphics coding side as some kind of shader (then I'd still have to draw edge transition masks, probably).

Basically, in starting these sets, I made the decision that they had to be tiles that could be slotted together easily as a what-you-see-is-what-you-get sort of system (and the coasts/rivers complicate this greatly, exposing the dangerous limits of trying to add very specific effects to a very generally-oriented tile system). To do something seamless would require starting from the beginning while prioritizing a different design goal.

Sorry!

Dang, you're quite right. Just now I tried to draw a complete version of that temple, but I'm not happy about how it turned out. It's on my list and I'll give it another shot - I'll respond once I have a good version ready.

Er, is it not in there?

There should be a decor sprite called temple.png, then hex tiles called hexDirtTemple00.png and hexPlainsTemple00.png.

Hi, thank you for buying my icons!

I drew up some coins and wheat (feel free to use them).

 I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean about logs - just, in a different style? (I do have a set of wood icons that might cover what you're asking, though they're *very* specific.)

For manpower, do you mean like soldiers? If it's specifically medieval, that might not quite fit this icon set... I'll have to think about what that might look like. I do have a few general population icons somewhere in there, maybe one of those could be adapted...

Thank you! 

I have been working on a scifi pack, off and on, for a while now. Glad to hear there'll be an audience for it!

Yup! It's just a lot more work to put stuff online with Unity, so it'll take another day or two before I do those.

Thanks! 

Yeahh, felt a bit burnt out on tiles and have been split between a bunch of different possible directions for asset creation (also, the Unity PR implosion was certainly off-putting, as that's where most of my sales have been... um, historically anyway.) 

Decided I needed to stop waffling and finish something, so why not the most fun option? Thus: Pirates!

Well, I have some good news for you! Check this out: https://dgbaumgart.itch.io/hex-rivers-costs-and-seas :)

Thank you!

Yep, I'll be pushing an update to Unity really soon. (It just takes more work to update Unity vs. Itch.io; think like 5-10 minutes here vs. 30-60m for Unity due to all the overhead.)

Hi! I distribute the assets at the resolution I created them, so what you've got is what I've got. Your best bet would be to use an algorithmic upscaler of some kind, the results actually come out pretty well. Hope that helps.

-- David

Thank you! 

Uh, let'see, about bundles? No plans as such. I guess I'd have to look into how to even do that; it might be interesting on an experimental basis so long as the overhead isn't too bad...

Yeah, great suggestion! I actually found I could put together some icons I had sitting around, so this should do it:

Thank you!

As for your questions: that is, ah, non-trivial to make work between different biome types. It's like, how do you transition from grass to dirt, from dirt to mountain? You could just do an alpha fade, but that looks bad. So some kind of painted alpha mask might be needed, or unique borders per biome, maybe. I have suggested people use "patches" that cover just the edges, and that kinda works, but it's a bit of a crude solution. 

Anyway, seamless terrain across multiple biomes is a problem that requires a bit of thought because there are multiple ways to handle it AND I'd have to redraw a version of all the tiles, AND, worse, I'd have to figure out how to split these new assets into assets - do I do new packages? Add them to old ones? I'm not sure.

Also, would making a bunch of assets which are incompatible with the old ones, or supersede them, be worth the time required? It's not clear.

So, TLDR: I have been thinking about it, but there's no easy and obvious approach.

Hey, thank you! I've considered doing characters, and have even done a set of historical units as a private contract job, but I haven't quite made the leap for this set. Been thinking a lot about what I'd draw if I did, though, so it may yet happen...

Oh, maybe after I get everything set up? I have a lot of content to add still, so I'm going to focus on that 'til it's all done, then we'll see.