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emeraldcatears · 8 months ago
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Making a Grass Autotile (part 1)
While RPG Maker gives you some tiles to play with, I find that really understanding how they work works best if you also know how to make your own. That and, well, I actually like making custom tiles. It takes a while - especially to make a whole set - but I just lose track of time while doing it and it helps me de-stress.
I won't claim to be good at it, mind you, but this is a learnalong so I'll go ahead and explore my process.
I'm using MS Paint. Yep. The basic art program that comes with Windows. There are a lot of tools in more sophisticated art programs that make this faster or easier, but for the sake of this example I want to show that you don't have to know anything more complicated than Paint to make an autotile that works in RPG Maker.
First I pick some greens since I'm making some grass.
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This way I have a consistent set of colors to work with to make the tile. I'm no color expert and I'm sure someone experienced in that area would be better at explaining how to pick a good pallet. I just picked some that I thought looked nice together without being overly saturated.
Since RPG Maker MZ uses 48x48 tiles the next step is to make a square.
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And I'm done!
Okay, not really. I could actually make a tile that's just a single color and save the details that make it look like jagged, growing grass for the parts where it borders other tiles if I wanted, though. For a simpler style that might be ideal - this is just the stuff your player walks on after all. It shouldn't look so busy as to be distracting. Variation could be done via decorative tiles like flowers added on top the base grass.
But I'm not leaving it here. I might experiment with a simpler style later but this is a learnalong so I'll make it more interesting.
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I like to make an asterisk shape of grass. Here I used the middle green for the shape and highlighted the tips with the lighter greens. I added some dark green under the lower edges as shadows.
I also only made a few in the center of the tile. None of these touch the edges. That's because to make sure it loops nicely...
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... I cut the tile in half and move the right side to become the left and vice-versa. If I were to copy this tile and paste it next to itself on either the right or left side, the edges would line up perfectly to recreate the first clumps.
Since I know it repeats horizontally I can fill the middle in with more clumps of grass.
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And from there it's a matter of repeating the cut-and-paste process with the top and bottom halves to make a tile that loops vertically.
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Huh. That bare patch actually kind of looks like part of the grass has been worn down from foot travel. I'll keep this in mind if I want to make a path like this sometime later.
For now...
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More filling up the middle.
I want to do one more switcharoo of the left and right sides to make sure those last bare bits repeat correctly.
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And once that last part is nice and clumpy...
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I know it loops with itself, but I'll go ahead and place copies of this 48*48 tile next to each other so I have three tiles vertically and two horizontally. If I just wanted this patch on it's own I'd be done, but to make it an autotile I need the arrangement of six.
One last thing...
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After letting it sit for a bit I decided the initial greens I picked blended together almost too much. I recolored the tile with a bit more contrast between the light and dark shades.
Again, that can be done in Paint if you'd prefer not using a fancier art program. While the tools available in a more sophisticated program can get the job done in a number of more efficient ways I do want to show that Paint can recolor things too. And I don't mean using the fill bucket on each of the different pixels.
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Normally, Color 1 is the color of your brush and Color 2 is the color you erase with. But if you hold down the right mouse button while moving the eraser tool it’ll replace any Color 1 pixels with the second color. In the example above I’ve started replacing the lightest green with my new set’s lightest green.
While I do actually have a complete autotile with just this one tile in a group of six of itself, to really show why this is an autotile and not just, ya know, a tile, I'll have to make something with clear corners.
Join me later for a path.
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ash-and-starlight · 24 days ago
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(late) kinktober week 6: dilf zukka + strip pai sho
just in case you’re wondering how the spacedilves from mercy of magpies will be spending their honeymoon
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sanctus-ingenium · 1 year ago
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I'd like to say a prayer, how does it go?
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skullinahat · 2 years ago
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✨Free to use, no attribution needed repeating star backgrounds!✨
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all made by me. i've got a couple more, check reblogs!
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nights-at-crystarium · 2 months ago
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another twt meme + version with no tiles
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kkoct-ik · 3 months ago
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i can finally post my silly little two-part wallpaper / blog banner merch pieces i made for the @hotguycomiczine !!
phone wallpaper ver. & some cursed hgc universe doodles under cut
[ START ]
[ MERCH | MISC ]
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one discussion on offbrand hotguy & cuteguy merchandise really captured me.
i wish they were real ...
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songsaa · 20 days ago
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Is this good for a standalone post chat
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soulsilvers · 10 months ago
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gym leader green as an adult. i guess somewhere right before moving on to battle tree. i thought this fit was very prettyyyy with elements from his former looks.
what do you think viridian gym looks like after green redecorated it? all i can make from the hgss design is that he likes neon lights lol.
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treetrunk737464 · 7 months ago
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But I’ve been imagining things, even when you haven’t asked me to? I image that I ran away, and met you here, on Earth. A Rose Quartz… and I’m not yours, but I make you so happy anyway! Hah, isn’t that ridiculous? Tell me to stop!
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goatskickin · 8 days ago
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So I was working on this Japanese style tiny apartment and it was really coming along! But then when I used the changelotzoning apartmentbase cheat...
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Okay sure. But what is the issue exactly?
How can I fix it if I don't know what to fix? -_-
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disregardandfelicity · 3 months ago
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Happy Interview with the Vampire is on US Netflix Day, to those who celebrate! 🎉
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cant-think-of-a-good-one · 1 year ago
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the Spectres aren't just a few shapes. they're an infinite family of shapes. a family that includes this:
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i'm naming this particular shape
The Fuckre
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upsidedownsmore · 6 months ago
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Tonatiuh Requiem
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I made this Styanax drawing for a contest being ran by @medusacaptures for her 2nd Warframe creator program anniversary!! You can find the link to her post about it here! (though it's ending in like 7 hours as of writing this, oops lol)
You might also perhaps recognize the eyestrain colors from a certain Tennotober piece... :)
(...i was running out of time lmao)
Alternate colors:
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Timelapse:
Kind of an unhinged one tbh lol, had a lot of struggles with the initial rough sketches as I tried to figure out what I even wanted this drawing to be. One of the recurring ideas was with something relating the parazon with Requiem mods with Styanax Tonatiuh, but it just felt like too big of a stretch and I couldn't figure out the posing fast enough
WIPs and grayscaled alts below the cut!
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god he's so hot
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deanclitoris · 5 months ago
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popfizzles · 4 months ago
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RRRAAHHH I FINISHED CUPHEAD AND MUGMAN'S REFERENCES
im gonna wait until tomorrow to post them though so it does not happen at midnight
but yay!!!!!!
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nevesceramics · 6 months ago
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Fox in the Henhouse
pressed tile made with cut linoleum print block
cone 1 white stoneware, underglaze, glaze
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