Game & Map Screenshots 5

[Korimax]

Well based on suggestion, I thought I'd ask about my mapping to start off I wanted to post a GIF my game that I'm working on has a Day/Night Cycle, as such all the maps are supposed to look slightly different at Night than Day. I made this with Parallax Mapping and Celianna's Tileset she has on the forums. (I really want some opinions or advice, because to me it doesn't look... all too great.) 



Also this was a forest I made it was meant to be sort of a first dungeon, though I'm also certain I could do better. (I made this one with the Mack set.)



Also I've been at this for a year, so no need to say its good for a first try, because it is definitely not my first try. 

(Well actually that was my first time Parallax mapping but that is kinda irrelevant.)

 

[Bastrophian]

Well based on suggestion, I thought I'd ask about my mapping to start off I wanted to post a GIF my game that I'm working on has a Day/Night Cycle, as such all the maps are supposed to look slightly different at Night than Day. I made this with Parallax Mapping and Celianna's Tileset she has on the forums. (I really want some opinions or advice, because to me it doesn't look... all too great.) 

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Also this was a forest I made it was meant to be sort of a first dungeon, though I'm also certain I could do better. (I made this one with the Mack set.)

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Also I've been at this for a year, so no need to say its good for a first try, because it is definitely not my first try. 

(Well actually that was my first time Parallax mapping but that is kinda irrelevant.)

Im speaking as a novice mapper, so take my critique with a grain of salt:

The first map looks pretty good to me...maybe just a little plain, but thats nothing that cant be fixed easily with a little clutter.

The second one i think is also kind of plain, but the only thing i see 'wrong' with it is a tree sort of in the middle of the map and to the right of the path. Its missing the right side. But its not bad in my opinion...in fact, placing each one of those trees one by one, must have been maddening!! What program did you use, to parallax it?

 

[RaZzi]

@Fortheloveofpie : Why the indoor map is so big? Too much unneccessary space. Make the rooms smaller and add wardrobes.

 

[Stridah]

@pie the indoor map is very empty makes it boring, also do you have an out door to indoor scale? id be curious to see the building from the outside.

 

[Kes]

@Fortheloveofpie

For the forest map, add more 'glades' within the large solid areas of trees.  You have a couple, make more and make one or two of them bigger.  Large solid blocks are never interesting for the player.  Next, add some irregular patches of long grass.  At the moment it looks like a beautifully manicured lawn.  I personally don't think that the neat round rose bushes look like something that would grow in a forest, but I know that they are often used.  I'd add more flowers, and keep them random.  In place of some of the trees, where they border the paths, try using a bush or two.  To have a bit of variety in the trees helps make the map interesting for the player to walk through.

 

[monkeyintartan]

Small map for project Soul Sanctum, NO event and what not added yet as just a picture of the parallax  Few fine details left but thought I would see what everyone things t

And not sure if I should add light or more shadows yeh

 

[Stridah]

@Monkey the map looks pretty good i will just give you some feed back on your gimp/photo shop stuff.

-It looks to me like you are using soft edged brushes for all of your painting (the dirt and grass) try using brushes like acrylic 03 (squiggly) it gives a more natural look.  id recomed painting with your soft edge brush, then using a lower opacity squiggly brush to create some differences.

-The vegetable garden does not fit with the rest, it should blend into the ground not just be placed on top, i would look into some other veggy or garden tiles, or use another dirt and erase the tile dirt and blend it into the ground yourself.

-The water created from tiles does not really fit there is a great tutorial on animated water just google it (forgot the name) but it is really easy to make a more natural flowing body of water (the blocky look currently does not fit with the nice flowing look of the rest of the map)

I am not trying to be nit picky or anything, let me know if this helped or made sense!

 

[monkeyintartan]

the water just an example aha I have my water in the editor in my own tutorial it shows how I do it aha. And yes it helped a lot. For some reason I lost the brush pre-set I usually use for the grass that a bit sharper.

Good call on the vegie gardens, thank you very much

 

[Firgof]

Took a monthlong break from Dim to recharge my batteries but I'm back!  Last night I painted the titular " SNN-HID-001 (Sarcophagus) " - the Magical McGuffin which drives the game's plot and which the game rotates around.

It didn't come out quite as awe-inspiring as I wanted -- but I blame just my simple lack of advanced skill with 3D geometry on that.

Everything here, for once, was drawn entirely from scratch.

 

[cabfe]

@Firgof:

Oh boy, that looks fantastic!

If you can get sprites that blend in the same art style, that'd even more awesome.

 

[Firgof]

@Firgof:

Oh boy, that looks fantastic!

If you can get sprites that blend in the same art style, that'd even more awesome.

I'm afraid not.  I'm not a very talented pixel/character artist so I have to put up with what I can get away with, which is:

I'd love to have a character artist come in and help me out there -- but I've already adopted that size for the game and I'm not sure anyone would want to take on the challenge of making a more detailed/interesting character sprite which fits his concept art and also keeps the current dimensions.  At least, not for free.  With the size constraints off, though, I have managed some decent-looking sprite art I guess (thanks to templates I've found).

 

[Kes]

@firgof

I'm impressed with that map, and the second shot is very atmospheric.  Well done.

 

[GammaVector]

This is a blacksmith's shop I'm working on. Looks odd to me, but I can't put my finger on what's wrong with it.

 

[boldpaste2]

GammaVector -The floor doesn't transition to well from the different types imo. Also, It looks like you have more clutter in one part of the room then the other.

I personally hate dealing with interiors with those two factors to be honest. 

Firgof - Wow 0.o you have got to teach me to do that!

monkeyintartan - Looks perfect! The only thing that catches my attention is that some of your grass textures are bleeding in places where it shouldn't be (like the water).

FortheloveofPie - I see a tree that is half cut off. Might want to fix that ^^.

 

[GammaVector]

Yeah, the two different floors was a bad idea, I think.

 

[boldpaste2]

Yeah, the two different floors was a bad idea, I think.

It's not a bad idea, but you just got to figure out how to make it work I usually use a sideways staircase and drop the floor one level or move it up one level to make a nice transition. It doesn't have to be stairs but that is one way to do it.

 

[GammaVector]

Still looks kinda wonky with a dropped floor. But I think it's alright with a normal stone floor, maybe.

And then there's this house I've been staring at too long.

 

[Firgof]

Firgof - Wow 0.o you have got to teach me to do that!

That can be arranged.  Here's the progress shots showing the progress of this map from start to finish.

http://imgur.com/a/EVcYo#0

Additionally, I'll be doing my regular art stream at 6:30 (it's 6:11 now) to work on the last of my parallax maps for the vertical slice demo of Dim's prologue.

You're free to join me if you'd like to watch me paint and learn my techniques.  It should take me from 2 to 6 hours to complete the ballroom tonight.

It will be at: https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=FirgofDrawsStuff

Edit: I'm live.

Edit 2: Done now.  The result:

 

[Kyuukon]

@GammaVector: I like the house vibe and the HUD

 

[Kes]

@GammaVector

What strikes me as odd is that there are no windows in the back wall.  This would make both the shop and the house extremely dark.  Also, I would have thought that no windows (or alternatively a chimney) in the armory would make it unbearably hot with the molten metal.  For the house, I don't think that mixing the solid bookcase wall from that set mixes with the RTP bookcases.

@firgoff

another map to swoon over.