Custum Shadow Tileset

[thefinalrune]

After spending a few weeks on making maps I kept getting discouraged by the way the shadows looked on the buildings. The default shadow square that comes on each tileset just wasn't cutting it, so I started playing with photoshop and made some of my own.

Spoiler: Shadow Tileset

Tileset dimensions are 256x448
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i27/t ... ileset.png[/img]

Spoiler: Shadow Use Example

Shown here without the shadows
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i27/t ... shadow.png[/img]

And now with the shadows
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i27/t ... shadow.png[/img]

 

[CrymsenTears]

you know, thats pretty nifty. but what happens when someone walks on the shadow? does it cover them or do they go on top?

 

[thefinalrune]

you know, thats pretty nifty. but what happens when someone walks on the shadow? does it cover them or do they go on top?

That would depend on you priority settings. I use a 5 to keep my shadows on top of everything else, including characters.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Great idea man, yeah you set it so that it goes over characters and objects, looks best that way anyway.

 

[Venetia]

Nice idea! You know, you could change them to very light, very transparent yellow too, to make areas of light in a room, such as what would come through a window :D

 

[silver wind]

briliant.
do you mind if I used it?

 

[Esper]

i´ll use that ^^  very cool and well done

 

[Jason]

This is very impressive, would it be okay if I used them ? I'll credit you obviously.

Just a question, do you use these as an addon (Merge with tileset), because how can you add the shadow if you need the three layers ?

 

[thefinalrune]

This is very impressive, would it be okay if I used them ? I'll credit you obviously.

Just a question, do you use these as an addon (Merge with tileset), because how can you add the shadow if you need the three layers ?

You could use them as events (although a lot of them will cause lag as much as a lot of any event) if you need all three layers for the map itself.

Just use them as an event graphic (which I prefer really since it allows hue, saturation and blending options).

And of course, anyone can take use of these, I wouldn't have put them up if I didn't want to share.

 

[Jason]

So you mean that each part of the shadow needs to be an event ? Damn that'll lag !

 

[thefinalrune]

It doesn't have to be, but in the scenario where you need a shadow on top of the map when the 3 layers of that square are already used, then you use it as an event. Yeah, a ton of them would lag like crazy.

But yeah, I merge it with my tilesets and then use it as an event if I need to, but I don't recommend making them all events.

Further more, it seems I'm missing a few of the angled shadows. It's nothing major but it can make setting up shadows on odd shaped items hard or impractical. Also, I'd like to add more curved sections. Hmmm, work to be done.

 

[boon]

If you're going to make it cross over player, Fogs would be the best way rather then that.

But for getting shadows under, muy bien.

 

[thefinalrune]

If you're going to make it cross over player, Fogs would be the best way rather then that.

But for getting shadows under, muy bien.

Agreed, I do prefer fog for shadows, but this beats making a new fog map for each area for me.