Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: tocky on August 09, 2007, 01:39:38 am

Title: [wip] isometric study
Post by: tocky on August 09, 2007, 01:39:38 am

Okay. I want to do an iso mockup, because I'm feeling kinda masochistic, but I figured I should do some tests first to see how to tile this stuff together.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/tocky/isometric-study.png)
There's nothing creative going on at this stage. I want to be able to build landscapes and buildings and caves and stuff out of variations on these tiles. I just want to know if there's anything wrong with how I'm going at this. I haven't had much experience with isometric work, and if there's anything glaringly wrong about how I'm approaching this thing, it'd be nice to know about it at this stage.

Title: Re: isometric study
Post by: Zero on August 09, 2007, 11:37:03 am

Not sure what you're trying to do with the one on the top right...
(http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/4729/isolu8.png)
Hopefully that helps.

Title: Re: isometric study
Post by: ndchristie on August 09, 2007, 01:22:12 pm

remember that if your light is above the objects as most suns are, it will cast more light on the tops than anywhere else..

(http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07324/Blocks.PNG)

Title: Re: isometric study
Post by: Ichigo Jam on August 09, 2007, 01:53:11 pm

(http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/3660/iso1ud6.gif)
I'd suggest changing your block shape very slightly to ensure your blocks will tile seamlessly - currently you can see a single pixel of the wrong face along the edge of your blocks when you put them next to one another.
Note that with the shapes I'm using here, there are no visible seams - each pixel is unambiguously on exactly 1 of the 3 visible sides of the block.

Title: Re: isometric study
Post by: tocky on August 09, 2007, 03:53:56 pm

Thanks, everybody. Ichigo - that's precisely what I was worried about. Thanks. I'll play more with this tomorrow.

Title: Re: isometric study + dragon... thing
Post by: tocky on August 10, 2007, 03:39:58 am

For a 'gluttony' competition at deviantart:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/tocky/dragon_elephants.png)
is WIP, of course. Should read as 'this dragon has nearly got more elephants than he can carry'. Working on the wings. Does it need more colours? which bits need more detail?

A lighting test for the iso stuff:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/tocky/iso-lighting-test.png)

Title: Re: [wip] isometric study + dragon... thing
Post by: ndchristie on August 10, 2007, 02:29:34 pm

now, let's think of what we know of spheres:

(http://docs.gimp.org/images/filters/examples/render-taj-spheredesigner.jpg)

and aply that to your lighting test :

(http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07325/Testy.png)

If the light source you've chosen is really aimed at the w slope tile, then it wouldn't make sense for the sw slope tile to be darker than the top one would it?

Title: Re: [wip] isometric study
Post by: tocky on August 13, 2007, 03:55:02 pm

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/tocky/iso-lighting-test-1.png)
Updated to the style Ichigo Jam recommended. I think I'm about ready to start working on the mockup for reals, now.