drawing autotiles

[Ellie]

Vxace no longer has autotile expansion, the feature was removed. Is there a way to fix this?

The dialog box does exist... you can find it via resource hacker. I am wondering if there is, well, a less orthodox way of making it work, a la the 4 line text box patch etc...

If not, has anybody found any other workarounds for using all minitiles that make up an autotile?

 

[coyotecraft]

Nope. But imo the only thing the expansion was good for placing 2 autotiles down next to each other but behave like they were alone. Forcing any other combination looked unnatural and choppy.
You could have a duplicate autotiles which will act independently. But it's probably just one tile you're after so you could import it as an event graphic or add it to a tileset.

 

[Ellie]

The main thing is carpets - the carpet autotiles are useless unless just drawing rugs as you can't have them go underneath the bottom wall.

 

[coyotecraft]

There's just shift-click that places it as an ordinary tile. No edges.

 

[Jason]

Here's a link about shift click mapping, it may be handy for you... he only uses it for cliffs, but yeah, I use shift clicking for interiors all the time, especially for carpets and such:
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php ... k-mapping/

 

[Ellie]

Thanks, that's really useful. I didn't realise shift click could get the exact part of an autotile.

Maybe in VX Ace 2 they'll fix the actual autotile expansion.

 

[Jason]

Or better yet they'll add layers for mapping, so you could add the bottom wall of the house on the next layer without it fucking everything up, lol.

 

[Nuri Yuri]

Maps without using the editor or use a script to set tiles in the inferior mapping layer :d (There is 3 layers of mapping but we can't choose them).

 

[Ellie]

I think I understand it now. It's just a little awkward, as there are so many combinations to try and create in a test map to then copy across to get the right tile. With autotile expansion it's just there like an extra tileset. Ah well.

I have a map now which just had autotiles drawn on it, so I have a bank of tiles to copy from.