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[Archem]

It does look like an improvement, but having a splash effect would do wonders.

[drenrin2120]

Yes, it looks a lot better. Given the 8-bit-ness, I'd say a splash effect would do wonders but isn't necessary.

[Meiscool]

I think the water is fine. I do see what they saw with the level of the waterfall, but sometimes that it just a difficult thing to tell where its starting vs ending in a 2d picture with a minimalist color style.

I think the railings on the side of the walkway could be raised a pixel or two, to show they are higher than the flooring when they meet the wall/doorway.

[drenrin2120]

Meis said what I was trying to say about minimalism and the splash effect.



Obviously not a screenshot, but something I've been working on. I don't know if I'll do more than just the mountains and sky. For now, it accomplishes its purpose. I'll post a screenshot of it in use soon.

[Zoltar]

Meis said what I was trying to say about minimalism and the splash effect.



Obviously not a screenshot, but something I've been working on. I don't know if I'll do more than just the mountains and sky. For now, it accomplishes its purpose. I'll post a screenshot of it in use soon.

Wowiewow. That's purty! 

[A Forgotten Legend]

@Dren
I agree that it looks fine as is without anything else.


I haven't really worked on this as much as I had hoped to lately, but is this a little better?

[Prpl_Mage]

The new stuff looks good but I preferred the old trees. That shading really worked for me.

[Zoltar]

I took a leaf out of Felix-0's book and made my own monsters sprites for your first encounter with Geists, when Terra rescues you and you first learn
about your abilities as a Shaman. I know it's not as cool and smooth as his but at least it's mine. 

[A Forgotten Legend]

The new stuff looks good but I preferred the old trees. That shading really worked for me.

Do you think the colors on the old trees would look okay against the darker shades I put in the rest of the set?  Maybe just darkening slightly instead of getting rid of the third shade could work.  I'm worried it'll be too bright for the theme of the project I've got going.  (Which reminds me that I need to darken the shades on the characters too - oops)

[EDIT:
Ran into some problems with using the dark outline for everything when it came to working on cliffs.  I found a decent work around by putting empty tiles with just a black line to clean up edges, but I'm not sold on the look.  I used the color scheme from the rock in the chipset for the colors.
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You can see the tiles I still have left to work on, but I'm not worried about those - so I probably won't keep posting about this set.]

@Zoltar Working on your own enemy sprites is a daunting task!  Even if they don't look the best, as long as they're consistent they'll look better as a set!

[Zoltar]

@Zoltar Working on your own enemy sprites is a daunting task!  Even if they don't look the best, as long as they're consistent they'll look better as a set!

Thanks for much,Forgoten Legend! Believe it or not it's not super, duper hard. In fact I feel tubular when I'm editing them. HOME inspired me to keep them very basic but detailed and MS Paint on Windows 7 is so easy to use on big stuff like that. It's little things I have some trouble on.   

[Momeka]

I think the water is fine. I do see what they saw with the level of the waterfall, but sometimes that it just a difficult thing to tell where its starting vs ending in a 2d picture with a minimalist color style.

I think the railings on the side of the walkway could be raised a pixel or two, to show they are higher than the flooring when they meet the wall/doorway.

Thanks. Yeah, probably going to do the rail endings as sprites instead to save some tiles, same with the waterfall splash.

Meis said what I was trying to say about minimalism and the splash effect.



Obviously not a screenshot, but something I've been working on. I don't know if I'll do more than just the mountains and sky. For now, it accomplishes its purpose. I'll post a screenshot of it in use soon.

That looks great, dren. Good work.

[Pokecat]

Have been procrastinating lately, but I did make progress.

Map
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Misc screenshots

[Moosetroop11]

There's something a little odd about your main character from the front; like his eyes are a pixel too high or something...

[Prpl_Mage]

I think it's because he's using the FF5 battlers, their eyes are 1 pixel higher on the face than the RTP characters. My guess is that the charsets were made to resemble that style as well.

[Momeka]

You misspelled kingdom.