Just wanted to say this looks incredible.  I usually avoid mods until later in a games life cycle so I haven't tried any mods for elemental yet, but after looking at these screenshots this one has made my list of mods for the future.

Keep up the good work and feel better soon (I did actually notice your absence in the forums).

These are looking great, keep it up! Glad you're back on your feet

Wow, that's really nice.  Good work.

It looks really good, you're really capturing that undead feeling.

A recommendation is to consider the GPU drain of the tiles from the start. When we did the Elves mod, we had to go back and "optimize" all the tiles we had done, so that the tiles wouldn't require a better computer than the standard tiles. On a more personal note, I also think it's important not to place too many pedestrians. When you scroll in and out, if the game has to load/unload about a thousand pedestrians, the scrolling becomes much less fluid.

Question: How would you feel about opening up the tile making to the public, in the style of a community project?

Indeed. I don't plan on having any more or any less pedestrians than what you'd normally see in a close up view of the tiles. I notice some tiles for the Fallen ( I always play a fallen faction) have more peds than others. Some have as many as 10 or so while others have one or two to none at all. The same will apply here and over-all the tiles without many peds or no peds at all should balance out the relatively few tiles that have small crowds sitting around like the War Council.

I covered that in my OP here:

I have a very specific look and feel I'm going for. Any of the tile makers helping so far understand that the tiles they turn in may be tweaked or adjusted or fine tuned by me doing some finishing touches. Also, I would hate for someone to go through the trouble of making a tile or even a bunch of tiles just for me to turn around and tell them something like "While I think that's a great tile, it's not really the look I'm going for.". I don't like letting people down or making them feel like their work wasn't good enough for what I wanted. To avoid that it's better for me to do the majority of them my-self and to hand pick the tiles made by others and to even hand pick the people making them to ensure they're willing to work with me on the specific look and feel I'm trying to capture. As I say above, I can be a real picky S.o.B. at times, especially when it comes to work or a project that's got my name on it and that I'm in charge of designing.

Back in my UO days I had to do a lot of "Quality Assurance" on other GM's and Seer's ideas when they were assigned to help me on aspects of the Necromancers and Paladins. Back then it was my job to tell people either A) "That's perfect, that's exactly what we're going for" or B ) "That's not quite right. This spell can't work that way as it's too close to this other classes ability.". If something got past me that my project manager didn't like I was the one who caught shit for it and I was the one who's job would be in jeopardy if it happened to often. This project/Mod isn't a "job" of course and I'm not being paid for it, but, a lot of my old habits from working in the industry cary over to how I handle projects like this and my attitude doing a project and managing a project can regress to the attitude I had when on the job. I don't want to feel like I'm forcing my opinions or work ethic on anyone either for something that they'd be doing for fun and for free. I also don't want to have to reject anyone or hurt anyone's feelings because I act like a obsessive compulsive perfectionist sometimes.

This looks awesome Raven!

All the tiles I have seen on this thread look awesome. Nice work!

A little update. Man is he picky... muahahhah

Wow John Hughes, that looks amazing. I wish I had that much creativity. Makes mine look like a child did it.

Next up. Name TBD. First thought. Undead_Battle_Arena.

That should not be as evident when Tiles are placed on a Map that uses the Fallen/Undead terrain type as a default. These Pics are placed on a Randomly generated Custom Map with the default terrain so they show hard lines between terrain types.

Some structures have to have "hard" lines as they are rectangular or square in nature. Some ground filler can break up those "hard" lines but won't change the overall Tile to a soft look and feel regardless.

In case I misunderstood:

Do you mean that having objects/props that overflowing the actual tile boundaries is what provides one look "soft" versus the other "hard"?

Yes I thought that as well. Like I mentioned though, and your example would show that, a global terrain base of cobblestones would blend them all together seamlessly, thus you would have neither "Hard" or "Soft" edges either way.

One major issue is that once created there is no way to assure that certain Tiles get placed appropriately within the City borders. So "Soft" or "Hard" only the player has placement control.

There is of course possible mitigation options but no solid "they all fit perfectly" together, unless they are all Decal'd the same and then the Terrain type matches up, but that sorta defeats the purpose of having differing tiles have "special" or "Unique" looks, if you know what I mean.

Let me see if I can get a couple pics to show the dilemma based on a random game map.

One of the suggestions in the "requests for changes in modding" thread is that we should be able to assign what gets placed on those empty tiles within the city. Hopefully they'll listen.