Tileset Question

[MC_Genni]

Um... Okay, I'm a little bit embarrassed to ask this, because I'm not sure if I'm missing something important or simple, but I have a question about using tilesets.

The default ones for the exterior are good, but can't I add more to that tileset specifically instead of making a whole separate tileset? I want to add more tiles to the "Exterior" tileset, because if I try to make a new one it includes only the roofs and some other stuff that isn't that fitting for outside. 

If it helps to avoid unnecessary explanations, I don't have photoshop... is there another way to to this? (I'm new to RPGMaker VX Ace.)

 

[MC_Genni]

Also, my apologies if this doesn't go here. But I looked around and thought that this was appropriate.

 

[Andar]

The sizes of the tilesheets are fixed, and a tileset can only have up to nine different tilesheets included: one each in the formats A1 to A5, and four more sheets in the B-Format (slots B to E).


So yes, the maximum number of tiles in one tileset is limited - but it is high enough that people can get by with regular tilesheet mixing and "frankentiling" the needed tiles from different tilesheets together into a new sheet.


If neccessary, you have to make different tilesets for different maps (the number of tilesets is not limited in the same way as the tiles per tileset are)

 

[MC_Genni]

The sizes of the tilesheets are fixed, and a tileset can only have up to nine different tilesheets included: one each in the formats A1 to A5, and four more sheets in the B-Format (slots B to E).

So yes, the maximum number of tiles in one tileset is limited - but it is high enough that people can get by with regular tilesheet mixing and "frankentiling" the needed tiles from different tilesheets together into a new sheet.

If neccessary, you have to make different tilesets for different maps (the number of tilesets is not limited in the same way as the tiles per tileset are)

Frankentiling seems appropriate... How might I go about doing this? Or should I check a different topic for that?

 

[Andar]

Frankentiling seems appropriate... How might I go about doing this? Or should I check a different topic for that?

you open both tilesheets in a grafic program of your choice (that needs to support transparancy, no MS Paint), then select and copy parts of one picture over the other, and save the manipulated sheet under a new name.
(export and import the tilesheets with the resource manager)


Programs that can be used for this are (for example, others can be used as well) Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net ...


EDIT: there are tutorials on this, search for them in the forum.

 

[MC_Genni]

you open both tilesheets in a grafic program of your choice (that needs to support transparancy, no MS Paint), then select and copy parts of one picture over the other, and save the manipulated sheet under a new name.

(export and import the tilesheets with the resource manager)

Programs that can be used for this are (for example, others can be used as well) Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net ...

EDIT: there are tutorials on this, search for them in the forum.

I see. Thank you very much for the help.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

BTW, I do think the default tilesets still have at least Tilesheet E as a blank

 

[Shaz]

Make sure you keep to the proper format - you can't just put ANY tile on ANY tileset. Export the RTP tileset images into your project folder and you'll see that the five A images all have different sizes and different formats, and the B-E images are all the same, but different to any of the A images.


The A tiles are for ground, and are mostly autotiles. The B-E images are for above the ground. So anything with transparency needs to go on the B-E pages.