How can I make my buildings appear right?

[lolwutburger]

Whenever I try making a building, it always turns out disorted.

This is my concept of a building



But in the tileset, it appears as this disorted abomination.



How can my building appear like in the concept? I know the disortion has something to do with autotile.

 

[Susan]

If you already have the full layout of your building, you can use the B to E tiles instead of the A autotiles.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Or use Tile A5, if it fits... Just so if ever you want to add something from the B-E tiles, you still could

 

[Aceri]

You have to also make sure your stuff fits evenly into 32x32 chunks. If they don't all break down into 32x32 segments it'll come out in the editor looking all weird like that.

 

[lolwutburger]

If you already have the full layout of your building, you can use the B to E tiles instead of the A autotiles.

How do I do that?

 

[Susan]

Assuming that you already know how to use an image processing software such as GIMP, you need to:

- create an image file which is 512 x 512 pixels for tilesets B to E, or 256 x 512 for tileset A5;

- open your building image in GIMP;

- line up your building image in either of the aforementioned canvas while making sure the images fit within 32 x 32 grids;

- once the image is properly lined up, save the file and import it into your project;

- if you placed your image in a 256 x 512 canvas, then load it in the 'A5' section of your database tileset, if you placed your image in a 512 x 512 canvas, then you can load it in any one of the sections labelled 'B', 'C', 'D', or 'E'.

If you have difficulty trying to place the building images within the grids or canvas, or if you need more clarification, feel free to PM me.

If you provide me with your image file, I can try to assist you in adjusting it to the best of my ability.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Learn how to create tilesets... Tiles A1-A4 have different formats each, A5 has a different format, B-E have a different format too...


All of those are in the help file of Ace...