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[Kes]

so save point is pretty much a mandatory.

Far enough, but my point was also - if it has to be on the map, does it have to be in that precise location on the map where it is ugly and intrusive. As it is not a large map, even the most unobservant player is unlikely to miss it if it were more to the side

 

[Skyquake]

Hey guys! So after a long break I'm back to my Project. This time, I hope i will finish it as well . So I wanted to show you the Cathedral from my city as well as it's location within the city. As always, feedback is more than welcome

Spoiler: Cathedral

Spoiler: City1

Spoiler: City2

 

[Candacis]

@Skyquake
I like the general layout of your city! Love me some pitched roofs
I would suggest you look up PandaMaru's resources for VX Ace, she has made some gravestones and church windows you might find useful, even a mausoleum.

A bit of feedback:
While I think it is good to strive for a unified look for your city, it looks a bit samey. For instance, it is difficult to even see the shops on the map, because the houses look all the same. Maybe introduce one other wall and roof texture and door, window combo?
I made pitched roofs for VX Ace, too.

I'm not so sure about the border on your pathway autotile. It doesn't look natural to frame all the buildings with it. Normally the pathway border would vanish behind the houses. I think, I would remove it completely everywhere it borders a house.
I would put shadows right next to the small stairs going into the cathedral as well as shadows on the right side of the left "tower" front of the church (I hope you know what I mean, it's getting late and my english is getting worse). The tower would throw a shadow onto the wall of the entrance part.

 

[Skyquake]

@Candacis Thank you for the heads up. I rectified the shadow on the tower and stairs. I will try and use another type of roof and walls, the problem is, i don't really like the others and they don't really fit this type of city but i'll look into them and figure something out .

EDIT: So i changed some of the roofs and modified a window to look as if there's light inside. As for the walls i REALLY don't like anything else from the RTP for this city.

Spoiler

Unfortunately for the alley, i think it's too late to be able to modify it now without redoing like 75% of the city.

 

[cthulhusquid]

@Skyquake
The path and graveyard fence on the far of the cathedral has a weird perspective, I'd place them a few squares lower so the look like they go behind the building walls. Right now, it almost looks like it connects to the roof.

 

[Skyquake]

So, this is pretty much the finished city.

Spoiler: City

 

[cabfe]

@Skyquake
It's a nice looking town!
Just a couple of things:
There's a house that seems floating above the garden below:

Also, the graveyard is at altitude 0 on the left side but should higher when coming from the right (you have to climb stairs to reach that entry).

 

[Kes]

@Skyquake I'm having problems with this section

It's the way the 2 buildings at the back relate to those in front. We assume that those in front have some depth, that the back wall and back roof aren't perpendicular from the ridge. Yet the buildings at the back are so close that there simply isn't any room for that space to exist. This wrecks your perspective.

 

[Skyquake]

@cabfe you're right about the graveyard. I will rise the far left fence . The house You pointer out is on the same level as the garden. The pine tree is lower than the elevated platform of the Town Hall.

@Kes i guess i understood what You mean but I thought of the roof as something like this

Spoiler: Medieval roof

 

[Kes]

@Skyquake I see what you mean, but in that image there isn't another house starting at the roof line.

 

[Lihinel]

Working on reviving an old projekt to play around with MZ.

 

[Ilithianeae]

@karraymalek
WOW! What for a nice map! Which ressources did you use for it?

 

[SoftCloud]

Spoiler

I was working on this. This place is a non-physical location so I wanted to do something interesting with the border around the room. I think I'm happy with it so far.


@karraymalek, this is fantastic rendering! Using such a system you can achieve such wonderful atmospheric scenes. While I'm not saying anything you haven't heard, this is quite a lovely and inspirational sight.

 

[gabrieldiastche]

Just a litte gif of the house of game Phil Alone!

 

[Kes]

@SoftCloud I like that a lot.

 

[Skyquake]

This is going to be a vampire's castle

EDIT: Did some small improvements

Spoiler: Castle

 

[cthulhusquid]

This is going to be a vampire's castle

EDIT: Did some small improvements

Spoiler: Castle

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That's a nice looking castle! I would put shadows going up the walls next to the towers, and corners.

 

[Kes]

@Skyquake I'm having huge difficulties with perspective in this section.


As far as I can tell, the gap between the brown roof and the back wall is only one tile wide, maybe 2, judging by the tree on the right. There simply isn't room for the roof to descend on the other side with towers fitting in.

There is absolutely no way that the 2 turrets at the front could be attached to the tower like that. It looks like they are floating on air. I'm not entirely sure which tile set you are using, but if it is the one I think it is, then have a look at the way the small turrets are shaped in, as it were, so that they look like they are attached to the wall.

 

[Skyquake]

@Kes good point on the back wall. I believe i should raise it 2 more tiles.

I use only the RTP tileset and alterations of it, and i'm not really sure what you meant with the 2 front towers.

Spoiler: tower

 

[Kes]

@Skyquake Here is a snip pic from one of my maps which is more like your reference image.



The point of similarity is that the base of the turret is clearly attached to the wall. If you look at your map, you will see that about 75% of the base of your turrets is unsupported.


This makes them look like they are floating in mid air. They are proportionally too big to be turrets. Again look at the relative sizes of the turrets in your reference image and in my image and compare them to the size of yours. The simplest solution is to bring down the bases to ground levels so that they are not floating.