THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

I guess lifeless wasn't the best term. I dunno. In my opinion, those tiles all look so bland and dull to me. Despite the high resolution they just look DEFAULT for back of a better word. Almost like this is a world where cartoon bratz dolls would live ...
I posted several different shots of his games and to me, they all look like they could be different areas of the same game.

they are not all, in fact, the default tiles : P if my discerning eye is correct the former is Mack and the latter two are RTP.

and i'm biased, a lot of my own gams are made using the same tiles. tiles aren't everything, and those games look reasonably distinct to me, and the comparision to 'bratz' of all things doesn't take the sting out at all, but whateva.

your stuff looks very nice, as before. i notice all your roads are diagonal: how are you handling isometric movement in 2k3? it seems like going "up one, right one, up one, right one" on that big highway would be really annoying.

if those graphics are direct rips you should share them, i've never seen a high quality set of eartbound/mother rips floating around before, it would be a cool thing for people to have access to.

oh um, CRIT icisim. that line on the lower right looks really, really weird. like where the cliff edge just becomes a line between the same shade of green and green? edit: hmm i should probably quote image

i guess i just have a stigma against those high res vx square looking tiles. im no better than craze judging my mother-esque maps.



thanks for the tips guys, you're right about the leaves lining up looking weird. Made some varying tiles and it already looks way better.

Fugue- they are not direct rips. original work + heavy heavy edits + a few direct rips for consistancys sake (it IS an EB FANGAME- original game, set in the same "world" as mother 2) plus I doubt my tilesets would be of much use because-

UPRC- I use a blend of panorama, tilesets and pictures. Panorama for the grass/roads (no reason to clutter my tileset with these things I can set in stone on a fixed bg). tilesets for trees and objects (which gives me now 2 layers with transparency OVER my panorama,) and pictures for the tops of buildings and stuff that goes over the heros. then will come events and NPCs and animated objects and hopefully really bring these to life.

and yes these maps are all very new and still being filled in which accoutns for a few of the errors i missed. thanks for the comments everyone!

(if anyone has any experience creating mother-esque tiles get in touch with me)

author=Dookie

These are awesome! My only critique is the color of the shadows in the bridge supports. I think the light gray is fine on the right-hand side, but the "white" side is technically under the bridge, so there should be shadows cast on that side too.

@dookie: good shit dude

Hey all!

Here is a screen from our little game. I'm testing our Yumi's overalay mapping, but I'm not getting the results I am looking for. I'm going to have to find a way to get the shadow to not saturate the colours so much. I want it to look dark, not burnt D:

I really like that, including the "burnt" look. My only issue is that a lot of the lily pads are overlapping the land -- I'd put them into character sets in such a way that they're not so stuck on the grid.

EDIT: Oh look, my Halloween project entry. I'm using Promised Abyss's battle system, except I tore out most of the fluffy extra stuff and replaced it with Francisco, the fabulous skeleton lord who narrates your adventure.



Very, very open to suggestions for the HUD.

@Craze : once again quite a beautiful combat scene

author=Craze
I really like that, including the "burnt" look. My only issue is that a lot of the lily pads are overlapping the land -- I'd put them into character sets in such a way that they're not so stuck on the grid.

EDIT: Oh look, my Halloween project entry. I'm using Promised Abyss's battle system, except I tore out most of the fluffy extra stuff and replaced it with Francisco, the fabulous skeleton lord who narrates your adventure.

Very, very open to suggestions for the HUD.

Looks good Craze!

As a suggestion... how about lowering the character boxes down to the edge of the screen so the faces aren't as partially obscured by the statistics and then removing the top picture boundary so the entire portrait head can be shown? The black background behind your portraits can end in a fade to transparency like in your Obelisk Devilkiller's battle hud.

Also, if you're planning on sticking with the 3 member party, how about enlarging each character hud "station" and then spreading them out a bit more so you encompass more of the screen's width?

I suppose Sanity affects your stats. Therefore I would understand how you can get over 100%, but yeah maybe "sanity" isn't the best term to use.

author=Avee
I suppose Sanity affects your stats. Therefore I would understand how you can get over 100%, but yeah maybe "sanity" isn't the best term to use.

many insane people in fact believe they are "supersane"