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Title: Falcon's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on December 11, 2006, 11:16:14 PM
Tutorial One: The Mountain Town Well, in my opinion, mountain towns are some of the easiest towns to make, as you can use terrain to take up most of the space on the map.
Part 1: Preparation Making a town is much harder than making a small map, you need to take a few minutes to plan out your town.
Step 1 Get an idea of the location in the world.
The map we're going to be making will be a town in the middle of two mountains, the town will be mainly a pit stop for traders going from one city to another. The city will have only one road, an inn, a equip shop, a item shop, and a farmer's house.
Step 2 Sketch the map out on paper
I highly suggest sketching the map out on paper, you don't need it on hand when you make the map, but you'll get the overall shape of the map in your head, and you won't be making the map as you go.
Part 2: Creation
Download the map data that I made for each step http://www.mediafire.com/?enjd0ylxx3r (http://www.mediafire.com/?enjd0ylxx3r) (extract the map datas in to a blank RMXP project)
Step 1 Alright, let's start by making the southern mountain. Tip: While making mountains, vary the length and height of the edges to make the map feel more realistic Tip: While making mountains, vary the height, using three spaces for the wall makes it look repetitive
Step 5 Now, let's make the path that runs through town, and on the northern path, lets make grass and other things which obstruct that path, so it's clear it's not traveled as much as the main road is.
Step 6 It's time to add the houses, let's put the inn where the both roads meet, let's put the item shop along the main road, and let's put the other houses along the road. Let's also add a well in town and a graveyard.
Step 9 Walk away from your map, return in about 15 minutes and see if there's anything you forgot. We need to put in more autotile use, or the northern path will look out of place, so let's add more autotiles.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: :) on December 11, 2006, 11:36:28 PM
I like it! wow its great, and the end result is a nice looking HUGE map. Just one thing You should add, is how to change the roof designs on the houses, just so the houses don't all look alike. anyways you kick a** at mapping!
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on December 11, 2006, 11:39:34 PM
Thanks :P
I've just realized that I made a small error on the houses, look above the door and you should see it, the tile doesn't belong there :P I don't plan to change it though, I spent a week on this and I won't do any more tutorial work until I release my game demo and finish my scripts.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on December 12, 2006, 09:02:06 PM
A weeks worth of work and only one comment? I thought a lot of people wanted a town tutorial....
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Cheal on December 13, 2006, 01:14:10 AM
Well, I really like this. It really helps me think about what I want my towns to look like and shows off some things I can do.
The end looks awesome and I will definetly be referring back to this when I make some towns. Great job! ;D
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: SexualBubblegumX on December 13, 2006, 01:49:48 AM
You know I've never really tried to make a mountain town. Well maybe one, but it was a mining town actually.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: GilgameshRO on December 13, 2006, 05:59:26 AM
I actually clicked this expected another shitty tutorial full of errors that drove me insane. I was pleasantly surprised. I noticed a couple minor errors, but overall this is pretty nice. Space could have been used better, but it's better than being too cluttered.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on December 13, 2006, 10:03:27 AM
Yeah, the final map had too many errors, I'm probably going to fix it over the weekend.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: suiko on December 22, 2006, 01:30:13 PM
sorry for the late post on this but just wanted to say thanks! great tut and i'll be using it to help me build a town or two :)
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Darico on December 23, 2006, 05:08:50 PM
Nice tut, all my mountain towns look a bit crap so ill go change them now :-X
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Christina on December 23, 2006, 06:12:49 PM
lil mistake i found...
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: :) on December 25, 2006, 03:37:27 PM
yea...theres also one down below on the bottom level of the mountain.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on December 25, 2006, 03:40:37 PM
I know, there are three errors which I'm going to correct, eventually :P
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Leknaat on December 27, 2006, 10:30:48 PM
Oh, very nice. Are you planning on doing any more tutorials, say for a snow town or desert town?
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on February 26, 2007, 12:23:55 PM
Alright, time to revive this.
I'm thinking of making another exterior mapping tutorial, any suggestions?
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: :) on February 26, 2007, 02:07:02 PM
beach town? or anything close to mass water.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Atracious on February 26, 2007, 11:26:50 PM
How about a world map? i am creating a fan-game (http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,13132.0.html) and i want to create two massive world maps, that are on par with the size that the original game had (i'm thinking something like 10000x7500 >_<) i'm just wondering how i should go about this, make the map or make it multiple maps that scroll onto one another.(if that's even possible)
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on February 26, 2007, 11:55:15 PM
I don't map world maps, so I won't make one.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Atracious on February 27, 2007, 12:26:14 AM
kk, i was just wondering. :)
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on March 09, 2007, 10:00:20 PM
Just out of curiosity, what's keeping this out of the tutorial database?
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: :) on March 10, 2007, 02:44:38 AM
I don't understand that either... :P This tut is the best I have seen for this type of town, mountains have various heights, organized, great use of space....perfect for database.
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Darico on March 10, 2007, 01:37:41 PM
If you want it in the tutorial database, send a PM to a mod. That's what I did!
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Falcon on March 11, 2007, 07:34:41 PM
Last bump for the database, if this doesn't get in I'll PM a mod -_-
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: Darico on March 11, 2007, 08:18:46 PM
You know what you must do... lol
Title: Re: Darklord's Exterior Mapping Tutorials: #1The Mountain Town
Post by: modern algebra on April 10, 2007, 09:30:54 PM
I think this should be in the Database. It's really good.