General Mapping Guidelines

[Tindy]

Which image? Inside/outside? Post a pic and I'll see what you're doing/not doing.

 

[Dionon]

NVM... stupid me is apparently slow on the uptake... Disregard I said anything, great tutorial.

 

[Tindy]

To better service you (and to help my anxiety) I've added a poll - it'll run for 30 days after which I'll add whatever wins to the tutorial. :D

 

[Tindy]

All right, the results are in: 'Other' gets first place with a whopping 3 votes! But because I voted there and it's an open category, it shares first place with the three second placers, 'More examples on interiors AND exteriors,' 'More examples of autotile usage,' and 'More tileset usage examples,' each with a whopping two votes each. >_>

Anyway, look for my update within the next week! But before I do:

What did you two folks intend by voting 'Other'? Tell me!

 

[Kiriashi]

Dude, the color tone tutorial was awesome, may I reccomend putting the exact numbers for us to see, and adding more to the color tone list?

That would be rockin'. Thanks! I was wondering what the pattern (meh) was. :lol:

 

[Flickayy]

hey good post.. i swear i have read this before??? ah nvrm but still..this is a great tut

 

[Tindy]

Kiriashi: I did, actually.xD They're next to the pictures. But maybe I should put the text on the picture itself? As for more colors...What do you suggest? Climate changes, perhaps?

FF12_Master: Thanks

EDIT: Due to my professors deciding that every project known to man needs to be done within the next five weeks, this update will be postponed until I have some time.

 

[Kiriashi]

Oh I see. And I don't know.... just more, lol. Make more maps!

 

[Tindy]

***UPDATES!***
*Like a bajillion new maps added to Tints!
*A few different maps added to interiors!
*One new map added to Exteriors!
-Why? Use the maps in Tints, they're almost all exteriors. :D

And semi-sections on Fogs and Autotile Usage to come next. Happy trails!

 

[ultimaodin]

This is quite a nice tutorial for beginners. However, you may want to fix the mapping errors in the swamp, you have several tree shadows cut off.

Also can we make additions to this ourselves as I have been meaning to show people how to use the tree autotile properly.

 

[Tindy]

I'm not seeing any cut off...I see that the plants are on the wrong layer (mostly 'cause I got lazy, but I'll fix that), but...? And how about you PM me in more detail about the autotile? I just got an idea off your idea...

EDIT: There's no way to fix the shadow snafu (at least, no easy way). If you're really bothered by them, you can go into GIMP or similar, transpose the shadow over them, and add them into the tileset as shadowed plants, but otherwise the treeroots go over them or they have a square around them (if you try to put the shadow tile over them as an event).

 

[Nachos]

this tut is really great. the pictures with the color tones SHOULD BE STICKIED

 

[Rappu]

This is awesome.

Could you make a big desert map example? Deserts have so few different tiles (and those are basically a) cliffs and b) tiny clutter) it's really difficult to map an interesting desert and retain a sense of a vast sandcake.

//Edit. Yay! Thanks! Even a 50x50 desert example would be awesome. :3

 

[Tindy]

I'll do my best I don't usually make big expansive maps, just because I've really only recently gotten a concrete game idea. So generally ALL of my maps are about.....eh, 100x100 at the largest.

And thanks nacho <3

Stay tuned for the section on autotiles!

 

[Scuff]

Cant wait for autotiles. This tutorial was great, time to go back and fix up some houses(hehe....).

 

[RadethDart]

Wow, thanks a lot Tindy! This is going to help me a ton in the long run! Thank you so much! ( I was never really good at interiors...)

 

[Tuna]

Thanks for all of the good info! I was referred here mostly for my problem with interior mapping, and I have a better idea of what I'm doing now. Personally, I think your interior maps are a bit claustrophobic, but they were useful nonetheless. The information about using Change Screen Color Tone was also really useful!

Thanks!

 

[Zekallinos]

Having a lot of rivers makes a map more fun and interesting, but remember that they have to start from somewhere. At some point, if you do each map as a piece of a whole, there ought to be a mouth of a river somewhere. Rivers are fed indirectly by the ocean - tiny fingers lead from the ocean to a big lake, which then feeds the appointed river.

Nobody pointed this out? Water flow downstream. Rain from the mountains go down (fresh water) in streams, which forms rivers that drop into the salty oceans with an occasional stop by the lakes. The ocean can't feed rivers without going against gravity. Rivers feed the ocean. Or did I read that wrong?

 

[Velocir_X]

Well it doesn't matter because Zerk - you defy gravity :P

 

[Tuna]

Hurray for arguments on the formation of rivers.