Forum :: Artists :: Basic & advanced Mapping tutorial/guide.

Misca posted: (10th Aug 2011, 06:13 pm)

Even though I'm already good at mapping you should add in a wall section because a lot of people have trouble with it.

Buildings: Down walls for bottom entrances, right walls for the sides.

Fences and other barriers: Down wall for right barriers and right wall for down barriers.

What I mean by this is: Buildings you want them to be right on top of the edges of the coordinates so that the entrance and walls appear to be solid. Fences you want to be able to walk on both sides and not walk through them, so in order to do that they would have to be placed in the middle ofthe coordinate tile.

How would you do shadows with that though?

Anything that is in the center of the tile can't have shadows put on them unless you add your own gfx. This is only because of the fact that the alignment is off a few pixels.

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Also I think u said this but I aint sure their are stupid mappers out their that put shadows on both sides....

Consider this the sun rises from the east and dies in the west, So dont put shadows in a different spot in everymap that pisses me off.

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Great guide :O

@ Queen that map looks awesome! xD

I wish there was a video showing how exactly to make correct buildings and counters i been trying for a while and i just give up and hire a mapper..

I know this is a really old topic, but someone really needs to make a wiki post of this :P 

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DanScott posted: (26th Dec 2012, 11:06 pm)

I know this is a really old topic, but someone really needs to make a wiki post of this :P 

Someone should update it a bit more though, like add a few things no others have added since this topic was made. I could think of a few others which could be added but I'm too lazy to post an updated tutorial but I also agree this should be wiki'd for the meantime.

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