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How in the world does anyone figure out how to lay out things when making a parallax map XD. I tried with Cel's Steampunk tiles, and couldn't figure out how to layout a simple town in photoshop beore putiing it in RPG Maker VX Ace's parallax folder.
Rose_Guardian- 12/18/2015 05:14 AM
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CloseMake sure you have the right sized image - so if your map is 20x10 tiles, it'll be a 640x320 image.
Then you want to set up the guidelines/grid choices in the program to show the correct grid that would be used in RM (if ace, 32x32). Then place tiles according to that. ^.^)b
It might help to make a quick map with general details of what you want where, then take a screenshot of it and use it as a background in the image program, then just keep making layers for different things over the top of it - say, one layer for each house, one for the road, one for decoration, etc. Then remove the layer that was the quick map so that it's not shown up.
After that split up the images on separate layers depending on their 'height' (images that are supposed to be above hero on one layer, shadows on another, same-as hero images on another layer, below hero on yet another... and so on).
Then copy those layers to different images and save them, then use them as images. There's bound to be better tutorials out there. I'm assuming you know a few of the basics about images in RM and the like.
Then you want to set up the guidelines/grid choices in the program to show the correct grid that would be used in RM (if ace, 32x32). Then place tiles according to that. ^.^)b
It might help to make a quick map with general details of what you want where, then take a screenshot of it and use it as a background in the image program, then just keep making layers for different things over the top of it - say, one layer for each house, one for the road, one for decoration, etc. Then remove the layer that was the quick map so that it's not shown up.
After that split up the images on separate layers depending on their 'height' (images that are supposed to be above hero on one layer, shadows on another, same-as hero images on another layer, below hero on yet another... and so on).
Then copy those layers to different images and save them, then use them as images. There's bound to be better tutorials out there. I'm assuming you know a few of the basics about images in RM and the like.
A quick way to do this is:
1. Open your parallax background in MS Paint.
2. Move your mouse cursor to where you want to place an event.
3. In the lower right-hand corner of MS Paint, you will see a pair of numbers. This is the pixel coordinates of your mouse cursor's current position on the parallax background. The first number is the x pixels over, then next number is the y pixels over. Take note of these numbers.
4. Divide both by 32 (or 16, if you're using one of the 320x240 RPG Makers). The numbers are now equal to the x coordinate and the y coordinate of the map grid in the Map editor.
5. Go to those coordinates in the RPG Maker map editor to place your event.
1. Open your parallax background in MS Paint.
2. Move your mouse cursor to where you want to place an event.
3. In the lower right-hand corner of MS Paint, you will see a pair of numbers. This is the pixel coordinates of your mouse cursor's current position on the parallax background. The first number is the x pixels over, then next number is the y pixels over. Take note of these numbers.
4. Divide both by 32 (or 16, if you're using one of the 320x240 RPG Makers). The numbers are now equal to the x coordinate and the y coordinate of the map grid in the Map editor.
5. Go to those coordinates in the RPG Maker map editor to place your event.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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I dunno, are you having trouble with the technical side of it, or with trying to make it look nice without the tile lines as a guide, or with getting passability to line up, or what?
Try to be as specific as possible.
What did you try to do, how did you do it, where did you click what, how did it turn out? (screens or pics are always handy to have!)
What tutorials did you use/read?
(well, there are now wonderful descriptions above)
What did you try to do, how did you do it, where did you click what, how did it turn out? (screens or pics are always handy to have!)
What tutorials did you use/read?
(well, there are now wonderful descriptions above)
Rose_Guardian
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I'm having trouble figuring out how to use Parallax tiles. I set it up, in photoshop, and started copying, and pasting houses, and trees, and it looked like crap. I cannot figure out how to do a simple steampunk town with Celianna's parallax steampunk tiles. I do not where to put things.
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