THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

Really...? All of the isometric developers just spring up now?

author=megaman8x
working on N-Boathhouse

author=ellenor
I Havent showed anything for months.
So here I go!
This is from my current project. A small side project to take a rest from my other project Dragunbane.
This game is being developed in rpg maker vx ace.
Everything you see in the screenshot is made by me :)
the characters got 6 frames walk cycle + running so far ^^
Have been thinking to submit the project but I'm a very shy person XD

I'm curious as to I have never used any of the main makers since rm95, what isometric perspective are you using? does ace natively support isometric chip sets and characters similar to nrm2k or is that some kind of panorama and if so is that one picture or many pictures?

No rpg maker vx ace does not support it natively. Also it is not a chipset but a drawed map.So all the maps does not have the same isometric view.
But how it works, a friend of mine is currently helping me to script a new collision system to make it work properly like in saga frontier 2. At the moment it dosen't unfourtnetly.

I made a villain gameover (you play villains during some cutscenes, and it's kind of hard to lose, but possible). So, yea, it's uncharacteristically cheery for a gameover.

Main thing I wanna know is if the BG is right.

Also, fire extinguishers are usually flat on bottom.

I agree with SnowOwl. There is a lot better contrast with the top of the platforms compared to the walls.

Sorry, I know I said I wouldn't post anymore for this area but...




I dunno, I like this map for some reason despite it being a deadend area. I don't think I've actually done a map like this (I've done some SIMILAR to this I think though...). Feels like more could be done to it somehow. Probably more landmasses attached to it on the sides somewhere...

Dimensions are 32x50. Screenshot is at 25% of normal size magnification. There will probably be chests here too, though I feel like beta5 is full of chests lately. Previous dungeon had 50 some chests (40 some of them monster-in-a-boxes), and now this dungeon is racking up chests too...hmmmm.

I didn't really say this was one of the final dungeons (the tileset I was going to save for the second to last final dungeon). I usually do put things at the end of deadend rooms like these (mostly treasure chests)...usually anyways. Or there's a locked door that you can't go through just yet because it'll be for later on.

The buildings themselves honestly look great. It's just the path between them that's awkward. The layout is realistic but boring. No courtyards, no use of height, no walls or barriers, no use of stairs or rails or anything else to create a path that draws the eye, just a grid of sidewalks with square buildings in between them.

Also, it seems strange to me that you have to walk to the hospital. It's not accessible from the road. Maybe switch the placement of it and the light tan building? But maybe not. It's not that far of a walk. I've seen hospitals with a longer walk than that from the parking garage to the front door.

It's a little odd that there are no parking spots for any of these buildings, but maybe there's a parking garage just off left edge of the map where the player can't see. That's not a big deal.

Here are some random ideas if you need layout inspiration.

author=LockeZ
The buildings themselves honestly look great. It's just the path between them that's awkward. The layout is realistic but boring. No courtyards, no use of height, no walls or barriers, no use of stairs or rails or anything else to create a path that draws the eye, just a grid of sidewalks with square buildings in between them. Yeah, true. This is what I am struggling at. :(

Also, it seems strange to me that you have to walk to the hospital. It's not accessible from the road. Maybe switch the placement of it and the light tan building? But maybe not. It's not that far of a walk. I've seen hospitals with a longer walk than that from the parking garage to the front door.

It's a little odd that there are no parking spots for any of these buildings, but maybe there's a parking garage just off left edge of the map where the player can't see. That's not a big deal.

Well, the problem is, like I said, only the hospital and the police station are accessible. The other two are just there to make the map less boring. If I switch the hospital with the tan building, then the entire upper part, especially the upper left, will become completely useless and serves no purpose. This is also why I didn't put them both on the right side so they can be accessible from the road.

About the parking lot, I could just put events on the left saying that this path leads to the parking area, so there is no point in going there. But this would have to depend on how the map turns out in the end. :P

author=Vegeta's wife
And make the high rise with the windows narrower (they're all very wide).

Which one?

Hm... That didn't go very well, so I think I'll leave that building like it is now. I still don't know how to deal with this map yet, so I will wait for other feedback. :D

Meanwhile, I am making an artificial cave that is based on the one at 3:50.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqmXrFERVh8



I don't have any experience with these types of maps, so I don't know if that looked weird or not. Was there anything wrong with it? Like the cliffs? :P