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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.
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.
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.
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...
... 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.
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.
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...
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.
And once that last part is nice and clumpy...
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...
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.
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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(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
#HELLOOUUUU#KINKTOBER WRAPPING UPPP#thank you all so much for the contributionsss for putting ur big brains to the causeeee#and thank you nene for pushing me into finishing this one in particular#staring at u with eyes so big from across the room 👁️👃👁️#and they’re dilves bc u know. i’m on dilves mode for the foreseeable future#like if you’ve been keeping up with spacedilves. this is how they end up.#discostang. embarrassing. cringe. L + ratio#sokka#zuko#zukka#my art#also yeah many beautiful pai sho tiles were harmed during the making of this piece#but no worries zuko is gonna buy him prettier ones 😌😌#(and burn them again)
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I'd like to say a prayer, how does it go?
#setting: mez#3 hours drawing tiles 30 minutes drawing everything else. as it should be#mech pilot#'wow he must have used the symmetry tool to make it easier' - no he didn't. he did not do that.
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✨Free to use, no attribution needed repeating star backgrounds!✨
all made by me. i've got a couple more, check reblogs!
#gabbering#repeating images#tiling images#repeating backgrounds#tiling backgrounds#free 2 use#ive just been making these as a fidgety thing for when i dont have anything else i wanna do#and im super proud of my progress!#flickering#gif warning#scribbles
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another twt meme + version with no tiles
#ffxiv#crystal exarch#g'raha tia#pixel art#own: next lvl#so many people give me the credit for the tiles but i didn't make the tiles!!!!#look at twitter they're all over twitter currently in multiple fandoms#idk who made them sorry
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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 ]
one discussion on offbrand hotguy & cuteguy merchandise really captured me.
i wish they were real ...
#kostik draws#hotguy comics zine#hgcz#stressmonster101#stressmonster#fanart#hermitcraft#hermitcraft fanart#the opportunity to try to Freehand Backgrounds and practice my colours#hooly fuck#what a learning experience#definitely taking this with me#please check out the comics and stories and covers if you havent already!#i did intend to make more for the zine... but it didnt work out. mentals and spotty motivation and all#i wanted to make some cute tiling wallpapers ...#oh well. this is life#im still very glad i took part and i want to extend a huge thanks to everyone who worked with us and on the zine#as well as everyone who supported us#blown away by everyones dedication for real
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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.
#pokemon#pkmn#green oak#blue oak#trainer green#trainer blue#arcanine#kanto#welcome to his neon disco zone with spinning tiles that make you throw up everywhere
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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!
#this is my favourite scene- ONE of my favourite scenes- in the show#it makes me want to pull all my hair out and scream for 1000 years#it makes me want to rip up all the tiles in my house and roll around in the grout#I am not normal about them at all in the slightest#steven universe#steven universe fanart#my art#pearl steven universe#pearl su#rose quartz su#rose steven universe#rose su#rose quartz steven universe#pearlrose#su
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Is this good for a standalone post chat
#art#fallout#fallout new vegas#fnv#benny gecko#oc#courier six#fallout oc#sighs and dies idk what to post and im out of ideas#rolling around on marble tiles I love Benny hes so!!!! he’s literally so!!!!!!!!!#I still have like bonercrusader ideas but they take too long to make and i have school#and stuff
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Happy Interview with the Vampire is on US Netflix Day, to those who celebrate! 🎉
#i like how the subtitle yeah but with no secrets lingered#thats funny#what other tile images did people get? i always wanna know what netflix think is most likely to make you click.#usually its the female character tile for me#iwtv#interview with the vampire#Netflix
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the Spectres aren't just a few shapes. they're an infinite family of shapes. a family that includes this:
i'm naming this particular shape
The Fuckre
#made this in inkscape manually#gonna try to make a geometry nodes that can do this with blender#aperiodic monotile#aperiodic tiling#geometry#mathematics#math#mathblr#shapes#tiling#tesselation#spectre#spectres#the spectres#the spectre#inkscape#vector art#fuck
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Tonatiuh Requiem
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:
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!
god he's so hot
#legit one of the challenges with this piece was just how distracting styanax deluxe is lmfao#like holy hell#so fun to draw though like man so many cool textures#i definitely drew the mosaic tiles a bit chunky but i like it that way#he's like fluffy in an entirely non-fluffy way lol#i did have ideas for relating the skin to either the requiem symbols or leviathan from styanax's anime short#but neither idea really fully panned out since it either be too cluttered or take too much time#idk maybe i can make those ideas a reality later on#i really wanna try drawing those mosaic tiles like how leviathan's flesh was drawn#warframe#warframe fanart#warframe styanax#styanax tonatiuh#my art#UpsideDownSmore's art#eyestrain#krita#krita art#digital art#artists on tumblr#art
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#spnedit#supernatural#sam winchester#dean winchester#*#it doesnt look like it but thats traditional tile art in the background just had to make up an excuse to use it somewhere lol
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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!!!!!!
#Cuphead#Cuphead: Don't Deal With the Devil#Cuphead: DDWTD#CDDWTD#CDDWTD Cuphead#CDDWTD Mugman#fizzles talks#the brain rot makes me strong. i did two entire references over the weekend.#Cuppatrouble#Cuppatrouble AU#cuppatrouble will be back. i swear it#i still have to remake their tile background. which is funny because. i havent even made a new one for my me.#but its fine. im excited
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Fox in the Henhouse
pressed tile made with cut linoleum print block
cone 1 white stoneware, underglaze, glaze
#sold in my last sale! really want to make more of these#and more linocut tiles really#ceramics#clay#animal art#finished work#pottery#tile#chicken#rooster#fox
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Day 16th of @quezify's Eggtober! Some more tiling eggs for today!
#my art#eggtober2023#eggtober#pixel art#og tile was 80x80#nothing super special with this one#just wanted to make something quick since i didn't have enough time to take photos of my egg painting yet#also no timelapse since it was flickering a tonnnn
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