Mapping Improvement Thread 4

[silver wind]

looking better. if you want more comments:
- again: I'd stick to 2-3 flowers with similar colors, and 1-2 trees. I'd also remove the rock pillars.
- I just noticed something about the building with the giant tree, its roof should be visible. (compare it to the other buildings to see what I mean).
- use more of the ground-path or stone-path auto-tile, to break the monotony of grass.
- why did you make the angel statue so dark? it looks fine in white, like in the original RTP.

 

[9robin3]

looking better. if you want more comments:
- again: I'd stick to 2-3 flowers with similar colors, and 1-2 trees. I'd also remove the rock pillars.
- I just noticed something about the building with the giant tree, its roof should be visible. (compare it to the other buildings to see what I mean).
- use more of the ground-path or stone-path auto-tile, to break the monotony of grass.
- why did you make the angel statue so dark? it looks fine in white, like in the original RTP.

You mean the middle buolding? Ok I'll fix that!

Ok, well I changed the color of them because whatever I did, the angels and pillars kept being transparent ( I know how to do it, but re-coloring the entire background is a lot of work. 1 or 2 types of trees? Why? there are not 2 types of trees out in the real world.

 

[9robin3]

UPDATE:


I made even more improvements. Hope you like it:

 

[9robin3]

I dont mean to spam here lol, but I made another map. Thinks it looks very different to my others though:

 

[9robin3]

I made a tower with many floors above each other (like a spiral stairs or square stairs).

When you walk up the stair on floor 1, floor 2, and 3 is visible etc.

say what you think or correct me if there is a (much) better way to do this

Tanks in advice

Ps. I still would like comments on my ^earlier map^ (previous comment)

 

[DJ]

Well this is one of my forest maps.

Map size : 101 x 90
People say that this map is too big and therefore hard to find path, but I don't really think so since the roads are quite simple
and the game have map system in it. And most of my maps have size about 50 x 50 ~ 120 x 120.
And some say the map lacks of something but i don't know what it is.

Well, give me your words people

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

That is one huge-ass forest map. Overall, it seems very well done.

 

[regi]

9robin3: Clever, but I don't think that's how the tiles were meant to be used. If you really want to go with this approach, though, I'd suggest taking the right-most screen and editing the stair tiles to create some going the other way.

 

[LaDestitute]

That's...very good looking. Quite expansive. Some sides seem jagged though.

The professor's lab in my Pokemon rom hack, with mostly edited/custom tiles.

 

[DJ]

for the original 1:1 scale => HERE

Great Woods Village. [135 x 100] Starting town.
Name of it pretty much says its environment.... Town itself is built in forest.

This thing took me 2 weeks. -_-;; Is it too long for making of maps, I wonder?

But actually It took 2 weeks for making the final version. It is the map that has been re-made for few times,
So I'd say it took about... 3 weeks.

One man army is not... easy.

 

[LaDestitute]

That looks like a nice improvement. I actually can't see much wrong with it.
Some more of my Pokemon rom hack stuff:

Hero's room (Aiden)

Living room

Note, I edited the tiles I made for Aiden's room before mapping the living room, so it's an improvement.

 

[bacon]

for the original 1:1 scale => HERE

Great Woods Village. [135 x 100] Starting town.
Name of it pretty much says its environment.... Town itself is built in forest.

This thing took me 2 weeks. -_-;; Is it too long for making of maps, I wonder?

But actually It took 2 weeks for making the final version. It is the map that has been re-made for few times,
So I'd say it took about... 3 weeks.

One man army is not... easy.

I love this map.
Everything is spot on. Only thing I would suggest would be to maybe edit the path auto tiles and have the long grass under it?

 

[DJ]

I love this map.
Everything is spot on. Only thing I would suggest would be to maybe edit the path auto tiles and have the long grass under it?

That's quite a good idea. It will blend the long grass very well. But this could also mean it won't blend well in short grass.
Well, maybe i will be able to make shortgrass-blend version and long-grass blend version. Thanks for the advice.

 

[LaDestitute]

Last map I have to do before I actually do some major tileset modifying and start mapping my Pokemon rom hack's home town, Charge Town. This is the rival's room.

 

[rey meustrus]

DJ and everyone else posting large maps, remember there's a tool around for simply capturing the whole map as an image: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=58344

 

[DJ]

DJ and everyone else posting large maps, remember there's a tool around for simply capturing the whole map as an image: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=58344

Yeah, know that tool but it takes way too long time for a huge map and due to how RGSS's built, It can't ran on background.
So I just use captures.

 

[Ellie]

I'm a bit stuck with this. I have a chain of maybe 20 maps between two places and on the face of it they're all the same kind of map, which I think might be making it monotonous, but I'm not sure. Can anyone think of a way to spruce up maps such as this one without every map ending up a random clusterfuck, or is it fine (or nearly fine) as it is?

 

[LaDestitute]

That looks quite nice. Simple but good looking. The water could use some activity in it, but there's a bit too much empty space.

I couldn't use a bridge in Route 1 (which would use tileset 5 as it's second tileset) as changing Route 1's second tileset causes some of it's tileset to glitch into Charge Town if I go into Route 1 and come back.
Charge Town and Route 1 of my Pokemon rom hack:

 

[Xhukari]

That looks quite nice Desti, but I noticed that the got a tree mess up on the right border, before it bulks out to 3 trees wide.

 

[LaDestitute]

Fixed the mapping error you mentioned, and re-uploaded a newer version in it's place.