Made a birdy.


with outlines


I've used a process that may have crossed some lines, but it has helped me speed things up a little, I think...
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Solved the problem with the imgur links, I take advantage of this to give this  thread a little bump

Thank you for the advice!
Tried following it

think it like cutting the top of the rim at the same height everywhere

here I sliced all the walls at the same height
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OR you could extend the wall up like you did, at the cost of a little confusion, but you should also keep it 2 tiles high there then

here I made the walls adjacent to the stairs higher and I kept the wall height on the walkway 2 tiles high
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The wall on the other side of the thin wall being at the same Y as the ones on the wakway for sure doesnt help,
so I decided to make the walkway 2 tiles wide:
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A compromise would be to have 3 tiles tall walls every where

for mapping reasons I need all the walls to be 2 tiles high,except for the stairs(the more the walls are high,the more the map will be covered by them)
 

you would do well to read Helm's stuff on banding, there are a couple of good general solutions for this on that thread. In fact you should read all of it.

I read  this thread but I still dont understand how to cast a uniform light on a tight,stright line without causing banding

made before reading Vinik's post,here's my attempt(this one in ortogonhal )
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while this one is in perspective
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I have to admit I have to fully understand your answer yet(sorry,not a native speaker)but I'll try to answer your questions

try to show us what how the map is supposed to look like

I'm working on my school's architectural map so I agreed not to share it online,plus there's no scale on it
but I can tell you that all the staircases are dog-legged

because chances are that the very difference between the two levels will already be obscured enough on the north direction. If you solve that differentiation between levels, maybe with some sort of ornate border, then interruption in those borders might drive the view of the player to understand that the walkeable terrain continues downstairs, even if it is obescurednfrom view.

that's the part I didn't understand,but I can say that the map doesn't have to be 100% precise,so I can tweak some measures to make your method work
I also forgot to point out that the staircase(in the game)should lead to another map(the 2nd floor one)

Hi,I'm making a pixel art version of my school with a top down tileset, and I'm confused by stairs:for instance,I have no clue how to make stair tiles going up from north to south.
Here are the ones going up from south to north


Also I don't know if I should add shadows on the nearby ground and from which direction it should come.

Any advice about stairs in general is welcome