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#1 MattCustov

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Posted 03 June 2015 - 08:27 PM

Welcome to my grand Sprite showing (even though 90% of these are shitty splices lmao)

First on the list are my Portraits

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Second on the list are my maps. So far, I've really only made two maps, I'm only going to show one of them xD

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Anyways, that's all I have today

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#2 MattCustov

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Posted 06 June 2015 - 05:24 AM

So after a lot of work, I decided to make another map, this one depicting the village Matt lived in before bandits attacked. Please note that saying my map looks like shit isn't helping me in any way no matter how true it is

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Posted 06 June 2015 - 06:55 PM

I'm not 100% sure but I am 99% sure that you only used a single grass tile in the entire map, that's a BIG... ummm "no-no" doesn't sound serious enough, just don't do it it's called tile spam in case anyone says it like that.

 

The river that crosses the map is very boring, and VERY straight, that's also "wrong" (since there's not really something right). Try to make it curve and flow from one end of the map to the other instead of just making a straight line. Preemptive advice here, when you add paths don't make them straight either since old roads weren't straight or even planned most of the time.

 

Add more stuff. Paths to start off, the middle of the map is very empty, if you're gonna have all of those bridges there (I actually suggest taking one out), then there should be a road leading to it to show that they use them. In the places where there isn't a bridge you should try to add a reason for it being there and not somewhere else. 

 

Also you have to many villages in the top. I'd say the total number is too high for the map all on it's own, but if you have them all at the top then you really have to many villages in that map. My advice would be to leave 2 of the ones on the top but to put them in different places.

 

The first cliff tile (from the top) in the cliff segment to the right is in the wrong place, it should be one square to the right.

 

TECHNICALLY there is nothing wrong with your map (except for the cliff thing and the tile spam) but it's really boring and empty as a whole. Basically try to make it more interesing, add paths, add some more forests, light grass and stuff like that. Try reading Primes Mapping Tutorial, it's really helpful when you're just starting to map, and if you want to try making mountains check out my tutorial, they're both in the Spriters Resource thread on SF (I think the links for my tutorial in this thread got deleted).

 

EDIT: Hatless reminded me that I forgot to mention that the snags looks kinda funny XD. Maybe if you took out the splinters in the tile below? 


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#4 Mercurius

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Posted 06 June 2015 - 08:33 PM

Considering that you just said you went through a lot of work (and given how annoying map tiles can be to find I don't blame you) I'll tell you this: IGNORE EVERYTHING SNOW JUST SAID.

 

Start off somewhere lower. For example, the map does seem awfully empty...is there a gameplay reason as to why it is specifically so large? If not, the best thing you could do is simply be smaller in scope, squishing what you have tried out together (although that snag being there weirds me out...) This will reduce the amount of empty space no matter what. Start trying to improve things little by little starting from there. And if you decide that you simply can't care enough to get it looking good? Don't even bother getting all fancy about it. It's not like you think you're the best thing ever and need everything as high quality as it can get. What you need is something functional for what it's for. Fuck the critics.


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#5 MattCustov

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Posted 07 June 2015 - 12:37 AM

I'm not 100% sure but I am 99% sure that you only used a single grass tile in the entire map, that's a BIG... ummm "no-no" doesn't sound serious enough, just don't do it it's called tile spam in case anyone says it like that.

 

The river that crosses the map is very boring, and VERY straight, that's also "wrong" (since there's not really something right). Try to make it curve and flow from one end of the map to the other instead of just making a straight line. Preemptive advice here, when you add paths don't make them straight either since old roads weren't straight or even planned most of the time.

 

Add more stuff. Paths to start off, the middle of the map is very empty, if you're gonna have all of those bridges there (I actually suggest taking one out), then there should be a road leading to it to show that they use them. In the places where there isn't a bridge you should try to add a reason for it being there and not somewhere else. 

 

Also you have to many villages in the top. I'd say the total number is too high for the map all on it's own, but if you have them all at the top then you really have to many villages in that map. My advice would be to leave 2 of the ones on the top but to put them in different places.

 

The first cliff tile (from the top) in the cliff segment to the right is in the wrong place, it should be one square to the right.

 

TECHNICALLY there is nothing wrong with your map (except for the cliff thing and the tile spam) but it's really boring and empty as a whole. Basically try to make it more interesing, add paths, add some more forests, light grass and stuff like that. Try reading Primes Mapping Tutorial, it's really helpful when you're just starting to map, and if you want to try making mountains check out my tutorial, they're both in the Spriters Resource thread on SF (I think the links for my tutorial in this thread got deleted).

 

EDIT: Hatless reminded me that I forgot to mention that the snags looks kinda funny XD. Maybe if you took out the splinters in the tile below? 

Alright, thank you for the advice on that, and I'll be sure to look at Prime's map tutorial

 

Considering that you just said you went through a lot of work (and given how annoying map tiles can be to find I don't blame you) I'll tell you this: IGNORE EVERYTHING SNOW JUST SAID.

 

Start off somewhere lower. For example, the map does seem awfully empty...is there a gameplay reason as to why it is specifically so large? If not, the best thing you could do is simply be smaller in scope, squishing what you have tried out together (although that snag being there weirds me out...) This will reduce the amount of empty space no matter what. Start trying to improve things little by little starting from there. And if you decide that you simply can't care enough to get it looking good? Don't even bother getting all fancy about it. It's not like you think you're the best thing ever and need everything as high quality as it can get. What you need is something functional for what it's for. Fuck the critics.

Honestly, I don't plan on adding it into a rom hack until I become way better at eventing, so I have plenty of time to adjust the size on the map, I was just giving a general idea of the peaceful village that Matt grew up in, which would show why he's so mad and depressed in my rom hack


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Posted 20 June 2015 - 01:42 AM

lright, some new portraits, yet to be framed, and WILL be used in Hope of Another

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Dmitri, A cold blooded killer. The Mercenary who killed Matt's family, Matt thinking it was bandits

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New OC xD]

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Lucas, the dark mage

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Patrick, a villager who helped Matt in his time of need

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Colin, the runaway soldier.

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Lucille, the cleric to Chepp's party

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Chepp, a man of few words, and strong actions

Fourth Lord for Hope of Another xD]


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Posted 28 June 2015 - 02:14 AM

For whatever reason, I decided to make a crossover hack to get some experience in making portraits, can you guess who every character is, and from what anime/game?

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(I feel like this one is the shittiest, but I only had 16 colors to work with, dont judge me!)

Edit: Because the last one was so hard, here's another character from the same anime

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