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[Albert Clare]

The Castle at the Centre feels a little much to me what with the one to the top; though otherwise, it seems balanced enough.

[Snow]

Well after I made it I saw that big empty area and I thought I could put a fort and make a sorta defense map (not true I come up with these things later):
-First some units sprout at the castle above, attacking the place and forcing you to defend it, then the next turn more units spawn from the castle and some from the forest below, the ones in the forest below appear at the beginning of the enemy phase because the have to cross the forests (These are foot units).
-Later in the chapter, bandits appear from the ruins and start to move from towards the fort and some pirates to the village above, if you sent a unit to the village you're fine, but if not you lost that treasure, plus if the pirates destroy the village they can cross the river and help the invading units from the castle.
-Also later in the chapter Cavs appear from the small island that you have to cross the bridge to get to, since they (story wise) can't travel well through forests.
-Also the propose of forts is to more or less obstruct the path so that the can stop armies. It's just that in FE you have to make a unit go around and they can't go through it. XD

[Albert Clare]

That makes the Map far more sensible.

[Fire Blazer]

Wow, that looks great man. You've seriously improved. Like, if I could/needed to, I would hire you. XD

My only problem with the map is that it seriously looks almost nothing alike barring basic shared tiles and the fact that there's a fort and ruins lololol

EDIT: the above statement is just me teasing in case it wasn't obvious

[Snow]

An Experiment of mine:


So Tiled lets you load two tilesets at once, so I loaded a village tileset and a Castle one and made the Village + Castle map I've always wanted to make.

[SmashedFish]

That's pretty cool looking, but the village looks way less saturated than the castle, which makes it look funny. Disregarding that, I like it a lot.

[Mercurius]

QUOTE (Snow @ Mar 17 2013, 06:03 PM)

So Tiled lets you load two tilesets at once, so I loaded a village tileset and a Castle one and made the Village + Castle map I've always wanted to make.

Just in case you didn't know, maps that use multiple tilesets are completely uninsertable, even if you only actually use one tileset to make the map and the other as a sort of "reference" (in the case of the intended palette making it really annoying to see, or something.)

I do think the map looks nice, though. Aside from how the arena trees kind of awkwardly have a different color to them.

[Snow]

QUOTE (Hatless @ Mar 17 2013, 09:36 PM)

QUOTE (Snow @ Mar 17 2013, 06:03 PM) So Tiled lets you load two tilesets at once, so I loaded a village tileset and a Castle one and made the Village + Castle map I've always wanted to make. Just in case you didn't know, maps that use multiple tilesets are completely uninsertable, even if you only actually use one tileset to make the map and the other as a sort of "reference" (in the case of the intended palette making it really annoying to see, or something.) I do think the map looks nice, though. Aside from how the arena trees kind of awkwardly have a different color to them.

Lol I knew, it just bothered me that I couldn't make one in Mappy, so when I figured out I could in tiled, well....
Also I didn't notice the treesm that's for pointing thatout.

[Fire Blazer]

What Smashed said, it looks cool in general though XD

[Snow]

Map for someone on TEB. They really liked it, but I still feel like it's missing something.... can't put my finger on it though.

[Oblivion Knight]

QUOTE (Snow @ Apr 21 2013, 09:13 AM)

Map for someone on TEB. They really liked it, but I still feel like it's missing something.... can't put my finger on it though.

Could it be that most of the houses are at a hard to reach place? Either near a cliff or a river... xD

The doors of the houses are obviously viewable on the sprite, so looking on the map it would seem villagers would be very close to a cliff and most likely wouldn't reside there in fear of the earth wethering away.

http://gyazo.com/b07....png?1366571379

Move the red circle'd houses up a space so they're not so close to a cliff/river, while push the house and vendor up a space so they're not directly behind the village. Possibly remove the forest between them aftwards.

[Snow]

I think you're nit picking a wee-bit to much oblivion....

Any way, I was bored this week so I started messing with the Mage Knight sprite to make it cooler. I ended up semi-making Felix (Oblivions OC) and making Snow.

Both together:


Here's a sheet of Snow's Class, Blood Knight, basically an offensive Mage Knight that uses Anima and Dark magic.


BTW, while they may look like just recolors they are not. I did move some small stuff around, mostly just so that I could have more colors but the point stands. Snow's sheet has 16 colors, but I'm not sure about the Felix sprite... I have too much free time XD

[Kuomo]

That is just so cool And you say there's really no way to put that in a script? I'm sure there's a way

man I just want to play hybrid classes now

Keep up the good work (and make ake a spriting tutorial)

[Fire Blazer]

Actually, I thought about it and Oblivion makes a good point.

Not that proportions and various map elements and the such are overly realistic to start with but it could probably be avoided by better placement

Also cool sheet but Kuomo what do you mean no way to put it into a script? and what does "play hybrid classes" mean? and why do I feel like you're either talking about something not mentioned in this thread or are speaking another language XD

[Snow]

FINED, jeez what do you people have against houses with cliffs.



There, hope I fixed it. Also I'm pretty sure Kuomo means classes that can use magic and normal weapons, like a Magefighter.

[Kuomo]

QUOTE (Blazer @ May 15 2013, 12:30 PM)

Actually, I thought about it and Oblivion makes a good point. Not that proportions and various map elements and the such are overly realistic to start with but it could probably be avoided by better placement Also cool sheet but Kuomo what do you mean no way to put it into a script? and what does "play hybrid classes" mean? and why do I feel like you're either talking about something not mentioned in this thread or are speaking another language XD

It has to do with what snow and I were talking about in skype XD

[Snow]

So I'm trying to practice FE7 maps because I got to used to making FE8 ones, I blame IS. Basically the difference is that FE8 ones have a much much MUCH more varied tileset. I don't really like this map much but I thought I'd post it anyway, my main problem is that I think it's too empty. I'm trying to think of something to fix it short of spamming pillars a bit on the left side. Any suggestions?

[SmashedFish]

Pillars on the top row near the middle? Otherwise, I'm lost, though it's a nice map to start with.

Edit: Might wanna do something with the three chests in that room, like add another to make a pattern like:

BCBC
CBCB

Or:

CBBC
CBBC

with B being blank and C being chest, as otherwise, it looks weird IMO to have two chests so close to eachother with one further away without there being a pattern.

That probably made no sense, sorry.

[Fire Blazer]

I think it's fine and I don't appreciate the FE7 hate inb4 "I'm not hating FE7 just has bland tilesets"

[Snow]

lol Smash, I did give it a pattern but with three chests, thanks for the advice either way.

I found two things you can do with FE7 tilesets that you can't in FE8!

1. Make a map with a field (rivers and mountains) and a village.
2. Make a Village with a river going through it (as seen below).



I have one problem with this, and that is that the palette for the boat is kinda messed up in this tileset, so I can't make it look like the water is rushing against the bridge, also I got kinda confused while making the water (all the tiles look the same!) and decided to just leave it as it was. I think it looks kinda empty but it might just be me, like the last map.