KMahjongg Tile Sets

KMahjongg Tile Sets

Tile Sets Available for Download

Chinese Characters (18 KB) [screenshot]
Digits (15 Kb) Courtesy of Ralf Bier ( ralf.bier@cityweb.de ) [screenshot]
Egyptian (198 KB) Courtesy of Chuck Zenkus [screenshot]
Electron B&W (5 KB) [screenshot]
Electron2 (8 KB) [screenshot]
Filled (160 KB / 24bpp ) [screenshot]
Flags (10 KB) [screenshot]
Geometric (18 KB) [screenshot]
GMahjongg colored (9 KB) [screenshot]
GMahjongg original (7 KB) [screenshot]
Kmahjongg original (9 KB) [screenshot]
Modern Pattern (2 KB) [screenshot]
Road Signs (6 KB) [screenshot]
Shields (26 KB) [screenshot]
Traditional (11 Kb) Courtesy of Shamus ( jlhamm@pacificnet.net ) [screenshot]
US Army (7 KB) Courtesy of Richard Lohman [screenshot]
Star Trek (24 KB) Courtesy of Richard Lohman [screenshot]
The Cure (189 KB) Courtesy of Paul McCarthy [screenshot]
Runes (38 KB) Courtesy of Glan Evans [screenshot]

To use a tileset from this list, perform the following steps:

Save the file to your system. (If you are having trouble saving, right-click the link to the file, and select the option to save the target.)
Decompress the file using gunzip (i.e. gunzip <filename> [Enter]).
If you are downloading the Digits file, you need to un-tar the file as well, as it contains a tileset and a layout (i.e. tar -zxvf Digits.tar.gz [Enter]).
Load the tileset into KMahjongg from the Game menu.

Creating Your Own Tile Sets

Tile sets are created using a single bitmap image (.BMP). This image must be 360x280, and may have up to 24-bit color. The following image illustrates the layout of this file:

Key:

A	The first upper left pixel of each rectangle (34x50) defines the color (transparency color) to be used to separate the drawing from the rectangle.
B	The pixel at the crossing of the first background tile is the transparency color that is used to cut out the 2 backgrounds
C1-C4	These tiles represent the 4 seasons in the traditional game of Mahjongg. When creating your own tile set, these may or may not have a seasonal theme. They should be clearly related to one another, however. Only one of each of these tiles will appear on the board.
D1-D4	These tiles represent the 4 directons (North, South, East, and West) in the traditional game of Mahjongg. When creating your own tileset, these may or may not have a direction theme. They should be clearly related to one another, however. Four of each of these tiles will appear on the board.
E1-E3	These tiles represent the 3 dragons in the traditional game of Mahjongg. When creating your own tileset, these may or may not have a dragon theme. They should be clearly related to one another, however. Four of each of these tiles will appear on the board.
F1-F4	These tiles represent the 4 flowers in the traditional game of Mahjongg. When creating your own tileset, these may or may not have a flower theme. They should be clearly related to one another, however. Only one of each of these tiles will appear on the board.

Notes:

All tiles in the image must have a different design, except for C1 through C4, and F1 through F4.
There should be a 2 - 3 pixel border around each image (that is, the image should be small enough for a 2 - 3 pixel border between the outermost edge of the image, and the edge of the rectangle) so that the images are visible when other tiles are stacked next to them.
Once the .BMP image is complete, save it with a .tileset extension (for example, mytiles.tileset)
For your convenience, this template has been provided for you as a starting point.
Tile sets placed in the default KMahjongg directory (i.e. /opt/kde/share/apps/kmahjongg/pics) can be opened directly from the dropdown menu in the Change Tile Set dialog box.

Last updated 04/13/05.