Need some help with the Exterior tileset

[Bridgeman]

So I'm trying to make a map with the Exterior tileset, and I made a bridge spanning across some water. However, when I do that, the bridge tiles automatically get this blurry shadow over the water to the right of them. I can't remove it with the Shadow Pen, and drawing over it looks stupid.

I noticed in one of the sample maps (Castle Town) there is a bridge across water but it doesn't have that shadow to the right of it, instead it has a shadow painted with the Shadow Pen.

Comparison:

Right is what I want, but left is what I get.

 

[Kes]

That blurry on on the left is the autoshadow of the water tile itself.  What's happening is that you are putting down a tile which the engine reads as being the equivalent of a ground tile, and so moves the edge of the water over.

What you will need to do is to put down the right hand edge tile of the bridge somewhere on your map where there is no other graphic, then shift-click map with it, then use the shadow pen to put in the shadow you want.

 

[Lunarea]

You can actually skip the "placing elsewhere" step. Just hold down the shift key while you're placing the bridge graphic.

 

[GrandmaDeb]

ksjp has got it, I think.


for more info on shift-click mapping, you can visit one of these tuts:


http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/667-mastering-the-tile-editor-how-to-copy-and-manipulate-auto-tiles/


http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/14387-shiftclick-mapping/

 

[Bridgeman]

Oh, that's pretty cool.

Is there also a way to get only the top and bottom edges of an autotile? As you can see in the image below, the pathway under the bridge looks like it stops at one edge of the bridge and continues at the other. But for a realistic effect that pathway shouldn't have edges at the point where they "collide" with the bridge.

 

[cosmickitty]

you might think about retrying it... i just tried the same thing and it covered just fine with the shadow pen

before shadow pen:

http://puu.sh/ba2ST/f43309ed12.png

after shadow pen:

http://puu.sh/ba2Ts/e694100355.png

 

[Bridgeman]

you might think about retrying it... i just tried the same thing and it covered just fine with the shadow pen

before shadow pen:

http://puu.sh/ba2ST/f43309ed12.png

after shadow pen:

http://puu.sh/ba2Ts/e694100355.png

Yeah but then the shadow on the water is darker than the shadow on the wall, which doesn't look right in my opinion.

 

[cosmickitty]

someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but the bridge tile isn't an autotile.  The water tile can be pieced shift+click style and changed because the tile is actually made up of all this , but the bridge tile is just as it looks but the bridge tile is just as it looks.  you can change the stone tile with the shift+click method and it might fix your issue though. like this http://puu.sh/ba8AN/3ae597773f.png

 

[Bridgeman]

I tried that, but it doesn't work.

Here's how it looks like:

And here's a quick Photoshop of what I want it to look like:

In RMXP you could just use the Select tool to copy and paste select tiles as you needed. I'm not quite sure why they decided to remove that from RMVX.

 

[Bridgeman]

Nevermind, I figured it out. You have to hold shift throughout the whole process of copying and pasting.

 

[Shaz]

Bridgeman, please avoid double posting, as it is against the forum rules. You can review our forum rules here. Thank you.


That is the shift mapping that people have been talking about in the posts above