Visual Style
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Caves of Qud employs a restricted visual style that can generally be described as follows:
- There's a limited palette of 18 colors.
- Each tile (sprite) can have up to three colors: foreground, detail, and background. (The background color is usually left as the default black; see the Palette section.)
- Each tile is 16 pixels wide by 24 pixels tall.
Additionally, composite screens or art pieces in its style employ a vignette effect, a scanline effect, and a desaturation effect.
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Some art in the game doesn't strictly follow the limited palette, and employs a unique trick (see: Modding: Tiles#4th Color) to create a theoretically infinite pallete as long as the color is a linear interpolation between two already defined colors in the pallete.
Palette
Caves of Qud's palette comprises 18 specific “ideal” colors (before any screen effects), given in the following table:
Code | Name | Hex | |
---|---|---|---|
r | dark red / crimson | #a64a2e | █ |
R | red / scarlet | #d74200 | █ |
o | dark orange | #f15f22 | █ |
O | orange | #e99f10 | █ |
w | brown | #98875f | █ |
W | gold / yellow | #cfc041 | █ |
g | dark green | #009403 | █ |
G | green | #00c420 | █ |
b | dark blue | #0048bd | █ |
B | blue / azure | #0096ff | █ |
c | dark cyan / teal | #40a4b9 | █ |
C | cyan | #77bfcf | █ |
m | dark magenta / purple | #b154cf | █ |
M | magenta | #da5bd6 | █ |
k | #0f3b3a | █ | |
K | dark grey / black | #155352 | █ |
y | grey | #b1c9c3 | █ |
Y | white | #ffffff | █ |
Palette File for Pixel Art
Copy the following text block into Notepad or another plain text editor and save the file as Caves of Qud.pal
. Then you can import it into a pixel art program such as Piskel or Aseprite.
JASC-PAL 0100 18 166 74 46 215 66 0 241 95 34 233 159 16 152 135 95 207 192 65 0 148 3 0 196 32 0 72 189 0 150 255 64 164 185 119 191 207 177 84 207 218 91 214 15 59 58 21 83 82 177 201 195 255 255 255