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rpg mountain tileset [WIP]

on: May 04, 2007, 12:38:12 pm
Sorta anyways... studied the Chrono Trigger mountain/cliff tileset, tried to get a similar look & failed pretty horribly, tried a couple other things that turned out even worse as well.
So I just messed around until I came up with something that at least looked rocky...
Here's what I have at the moment:


I'm worried that it may look "man made" (rocks stacked by people to build a wall) rather than natural, and a bit unsure about how the sides look.
Ignore the crappy land tile at the top that I'll be replacing and the light grey dots on the edges at the top. the focus of this is on the bottom 2 tiles.
I'm aware that there are a couple extra pixels in height at the top, sloppy cut & paste from my tileset is all. :P

I appreciate any help I can get with this. At the very least I think this tile set could be used for something else if it cannot be used as a mountain side/cliff tileset.
I am also aware of the somewhat crappy tiling look.. still need to work on that, right now I'm focusing on the look of it rather than if it can tile or not. :)

Thanks in advance. :)

Edit: Also, thought I should note that this tileset is for an arid cool climate.
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Re: rpg mountain tileset [WIP]

Reply #1 on: May 05, 2007, 11:30:56 am
Here's the somewhat finished look:


I'm in the process of making a duplicate darker overall tileset. (looks better in my opinion with more contrast, so I may toss up an update later with that)
I still need to go over it and touch it up a bit in certain areas, the side pieces were a bit sloppy, but they work.

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Re: rpg mountain tileset [WIP]

Reply #2 on: May 05, 2007, 02:26:39 pm
rock pattern makes little/no sense.  in nature, walls simply do not form of similarly sized rocks piled atop each other like this, they form with layers of massive stones that are slowly worn down and broken over centuries.  small stones and silt are almost always broken and washed away by the same elements that created the wall in the first place.

here are some rock references :

http://www.pbase.com/iof/image/38388982.jpg - Australia
http://www.rsiphotos.com/images/photos/Landscapes_11.jpg i a particularly beautiful stone face in the northwestern US
http://shot2focus.com/db4/00337/shot2focus.com/_uimages/Rockface.jpg - another from the same region
http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/images/P22211286e.jpg - France
http://lakdiva.org/sakwala/sc_site04.jpg - Sri Lanka.  I like this mostly for the ancient carving, see how it is literally a single piece of stone?
http://mayacaves.org/files/images/chisecface.preview.jpg - not sure where it is from (mexico?) , but i really like it
http://www.me.berkeley.edu/~dcoatta/Summer2004/JoshuaTree/Fullsize/JoshuaTree-RockclimbingDan.jpg - California, US
http://www.mongabay.com/images/peru/cuzco/Train_1018_0929.JPG - Peru
http://nightglow.gsfc.nasa.gov/eric_journal_files/serpentine_gorge.jpg - Australia
http://www.donporter.net/Cuernavaca/SaltoSanAnton/RockFace.jpg - Mexico
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Re: rpg mountain tileset [WIP]

Reply #3 on: May 05, 2007, 02:37:16 pm
Hmm, thanks Adarias. I'll see if I can come up with something better.

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Re: rpg mountain tileset [WIP]

Reply #4 on: May 06, 2007, 12:14:02 pm
Update:


I like this better for a mountain feel, but seems like I still need to add something.
(still wont tile very well I don't think... just threw it together to get the general look)

Thoughts?

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Re: rpg mountain tileset [WIP]

Reply #5 on: May 06, 2007, 12:55:01 pm
That looks alot better, even with jsut the basic shading you have there. But yeah..getting that into a tile will be hard. Why not just make a tile, and fill the tower thing in with it? Or them, if you make more than 1..
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Re: rpg mountain tileset [WIP]

Reply #6 on: May 06, 2007, 01:40:22 pm
That looks alot better, even with jsut the basic shading you have there. But yeah..getting that into a tile will be hard.
Well, most of it seems to tile ok... needs a little bit of work on the sides, but it works.

Why not just make a tile, and fill the tower thing in with it? Or them, if you make more than 1..
Not sure what you mean here...

I feel like it could use more shading, but it seems to start looking like absolute crap whenever I add in more shading.