For me,(and probably many others) the hardest aspect of mapping is balance. It can be quite hard to fill space without needlessly cluttering the area. For this reason alone; I find indoor mapping to be leaps and bounds more difficult than the outdoors. Often when people show off the mapping in their game they're bound to show you nearly all outdoor maps. With a forest or a typical town, it becomes easy to fill the space with trees, lakes and rivers. Resources for these environments are plentiful with the rpgmaker engines. However, for indoor environments your options are more limited and it can be difficult to find a practical way to fill space with them, as a room will only house so many appliances in a practical fashion. Nature, on the other hand, is robust and plentiful.

Top all that off with an even scarcer collection of Sci-fi resources and you get the predicament i'm in. I can make due with whats out there already, but the general lack of science fiction-esque stuff to fill my indoor environments with is really slowing down my mapping progression. The map below is from one of the opening scenes in the game. I worked for many hours on that one room, but I think it payed off in the end. If anyone has ever had the thought of making some quality sci-fi parallax resources, please don't hold back. The sci-fi community desperately needs them.




In other unrelated news, i've recently played some older games on rmn that I never got around to playing, such as: Space Funeral, Hero's Realm, etc. RM2k3 isn't really my thing but I'm really enjoying these titles. :D

-Alouroua