Mapping Improvement Thread 4

[Ellie]

The cliffs you have used have a gradient on them, but the tiles you have added on top such as the stairs, plants, and such do not, so they stand out with clear edges or just have the same lighting on them. Without editing them to add the same gradient somehow they look odd.

 

[9robin3]

So I should shadow the lower parts or what?

 

[silver wind]

I'm surprised no one fixed this before.
Try this tileset

Spoiler: mountain edit

 

[Daxis]

great now I have to add silverwind into my game credits as well
>.<
no seriously awesome edit.

 

[bacon]

I think it looks a bit too busy. o:

 

[Daxis]

it actually doesn't look busy at all. Fairly well mapping; everything's pretty much there, various colors used throughout, pretty much good rtp mapping man. In game, the player'd have a wide area to move, so it's actually nto budy. The tree in the middle wouldn't make too much sense, though, as people making the trail would have cut it down.

 

[bacon]

You might not be able to see it, but the trail ends and is open field from then on. But you do make a valid point, I might move it up and left a tile.

 

[regi]

The only things that really bother me are the star-shaped green clumps/patches. I understand you're trying to create a clumped feel, but they're spaced too uniformly and linearly, making them look obviously tiled. A small edit perhaps varying the x and y position slightly in each tile would help.

 

[Tah Zonemaster]

This is a screenshot of a credit scene. :smile:

 

[Eventing_Guy]

Im no mapping MASTER either but I thought I should point out these.

 

[Tah Zonemaster]

Fixed. :smile: Thankyou for the reply. I have two other screenshots from the tile screen now.

 

[Eventing_Guy]

The second on looks fine to me...

but the first Pick is the same as the last one you posted... near the birds.
where the mountain meets the grass... And in lower left. The stairs - where the grass meets the rock...

 

[candle]

Plus, all your cliffs are very blocky and rectangular.

 

[Ellie]

I like what you've done with the paths, makes them seem less autotiley.

 

[Pokémaniac]

I like what you've done with the paths, makes them seem less autotiley.

I kind of like it, but I think he overdid it.

 

[Holder]

It's something that bugs me the most about using the RTP is that there's always the use of three tile high cliffs, it seems like it makes creating cliffs easier but it would make a more natural and more effective natural looking map if they were varied alot more.

Yeah I agree with yous as it is over done, using that effect would suit it more within selected areas and having a couple of variations of that tile would help loose the tiled look.

 

[regi]

I should point you to Tindy's General Mapping Guidelines, it's got some very helpful tips for making realistic cliffs. I think you also overdid the pebbles on the path, as it's easy to discern that they're individual tiles.

 

[Thula]

You probably forgot something.

 

[Cryranos]

Time to help me spruce up another town.

This time it's a small castle (I suck at castles).

 

[WeaponOD]

Lil screen from a new w.i.p, I've noticed a few errors, but I'll fix em later :P