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Macalania Woods (A.K.A. "The Phantom Forest")

Hello! So, one of the game's early areas is the Macalania Woods, a little ways east of Figaro Castle. Some call it the Phantom Forest, though, because a witch lives there. I need to map this area as soon as possible, but there's a problem.

Final Fantasy games (especially FF4CC where FFD gets most of it's map tiles) don't really have a ton of forest tiles to work with. Luckily, a lot of the RTP stuff blends in very well with the PSP tiles. I've seen some amazing forest maps in my time here, but most of the time they're done through Parallax Mapping, which I don't have any experience with.

So I'm asking for anyone who has experience with forest mapping or Parallax Mapping to lend me a hand and take on the mapping of this one area. Interested? Send me a PM! I'll tell you all about the area, the monsters in it, what happens there, anything you need to do it properly.

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Noel_Kreiss
332
01/31/2014 06:40 PM
Weren't there any forest areas in FFV and FFVI? They have these iOS/Android re-releases with actually fine tiles (as opposed to horrible sprites) so maybe try ripping from the screenshots as I believe there are no rips of those, at least not at the moment.
WCouillard
Epic Splits
2223
01/31/2014 10:08 PM
The only forested area in FFVI is the Phantom Forest and that didn't have a conventional map design to begin with.

FFV iOS, the tiles are pretty anti-aliased and the maps are full of extra effects like overlays so they'd need to be ripped via the files and I don't think that's possible just yet. I'll always be looking, though.

But let's stay focused on the task at hand: making some nice maps with what we have.
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