Graphics outlines.

[Mr. Detective]

Hi guys,

I recently found some shop tiles on First Seed Materials, but they seem to clash really bad with my current tilesets. Here's a pic:

One of the members explained to me that I need to add some sort of outlines around the tiles.

To fix the outlines, all you'd need to do is use a single-pixel brush in pencil mode. Select the darkest color on the sprite, adjust it so that it's several shades darker, and then just trace around the sprite with the pencil tool to add the outline. If you hit a spot that's a different hue, like the metal bits on the side of the vending machine, you'll probably want to switch to a darker version of that color.

To adjust the pastel building, your simplest option is to find the "Adjust Hue/Saturation" option, then bump the saturation up by about 50%. Make sure you do this in a file/layer with JUST the building you want to change, or else you'll end up saturating all the things, and that won't fix anything. (And may cause major eye pain from stabby colors XD )

I tried doing what he said, but it didn't seem to be much different. I am not very good at editing these kinds of resources, so would anyone help me with this? I would like the tiles to be edited in any way so that it won't clash against the normal Ace graphic style. That could be adding some dark outline, or changing the tiles' saturation, or whichever way you want to do. These are the tiles:

Thanks in advance!

 

[Loke]

The problem here is that it's a completely different style... I mean, I could play around with the colours a little, as well as add some outlines, but the fact of the matter is that the styles clash, period. If you're alright with that though, then sure, I can fix the colours up a bit.

 

[Mr. Detective]

Yeah, sure. Please give it a try and we'll see how it goes.

 

[Sharm]

I think that you were supposed to do that to your other tiles to make them match the first seed stuff, not the other way around. It looks like the contrast is a bit higher too.

 

[Mr. Detective]

These are the only two tilesets from FSM with clashing issues, I can't fix everything else just to make them match those two.

 

[Loke]

Yeah, sure. Please give it a try and we'll see how it goes.

Right then, I'm gonna need the rest of your tileset for comparison. Otherwise I won't know if it matches, ya know?

 

[Mr. Detective]

Well, I mostly just use normal RTP-style tilesets like these:

http://vxresource.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/future-joy-tilee.png

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/119/f/2/rpg_maker_vx__modernrtp_tilec_by_painhurt-d3f7sm6.png

http://i41.tinypic.com/30x8pw8.png

Is that enough?

 

[Mr. Detective]

I'm just checking on how this is going. Are you working on this, Loke?

 

[xcom]

I wanted to use those same tiles, but had the same problem.  I would be very interested getting them to match up in the same way.

 

[Mr. Detective]

I wonder how this is going... If no one is going to do this, I need to know so I can find another direction for the game and leave these tiles.

 

[Loke]

Oh man, I completely forgot about this! So sorry! For some reason I didn't get your replies in my mail? Weird... Anyway, I'll see what I can do. It might take a little while though, but shouldn't be more than a couple days!

 

[Mr. Detective]

Thanks, at least you didn't just give up. I'll be waiting for your good news.

 

[R4B]

If Loke don't mind, here is my edit:

I just switched the color pallete of the original sprites to the one used in XP.
The results were pretty good.

Oh, and I also changed the vending machines* (?)

Note: The red one says "Loki Colo" not "Coca Cola"

 

Good luck with your game!

 

[Loke]

If Loki don't mind, here is my edit:

I just switched the color pallete of the original sprites to the one used in XP.

The results were pretty good.

Nice edit R4B! Seems like there's no need for me to fiddle around with these, you pretty much did what I was gonna do!

 

[Mr. Detective]

Excellent work! Thanks a lot for the help, guys!