Hello, this is my first tutorial. It's said what's this tutorial about.
Let's start.
Start with a blank map (I am working on main overworld).
Now that you have done that, let's get the shape of the overworld. To get the shape, do something like this.
Notice that there are lots of cutoffs on the overworld. Now, use this () tile to fix that. You should get something like this.
The water inside is awful, replace that with grass tile. It should look like this.
Good job. Now put it on a mountain. Like this:
Perfect. It looks a little dull, doesn't it? Put some decorations. First put the levels on the overworld then the decorations. I won't use paths, but I will put it like the levels were already beaten. With the decorations and the levels, it will look much more pretty.
The final thing. Put an island attached to the overworld.
Part 2: Palletes
The title is explained what's this part about.
Open your palette editor. You should see a bunch of colors.
First, I will explain what NOT to do with your palettes. Don't do this.
It looks awful and ugly.
Now, if you want to make a good palette, you need to get something soothing. Example:
How did I did that? Simple, change the first color of the grassland palette tiles, then the last one, and finally, hold Alt and right click at the first tile, then again, hold Alt, and right click at the last tile. Still you have to watch out so the first and the last tile will have the same color.
If you want to make a wasteland, you just have to do the same thing just with different colors. I have something like this:
Well, that is wrong! The island is still bright. Now that I've changed the island palette, I have something like this:
Let's say you want a dream land. How will we make that? Simple. Just take some colors like red & blue and put them on your overworld. I've got this:
And that's it for the Part 2 of this tutorial. Next I will learn you how to create events and paths.
Now, you've read my tutorial (probably), you will get a bonus IPS patch. Feel free to edit the overworld and post the screenshots of your progress.
The IPS Patch:
Overworld Tutorial
Happy further overworlding.
Let's start.
Start with a blank map (I am working on main overworld).
Now that you have done that, let's get the shape of the overworld. To get the shape, do something like this.
Notice that there are lots of cutoffs on the overworld. Now, use this () tile to fix that. You should get something like this.
The water inside is awful, replace that with grass tile. It should look like this.
Good job. Now put it on a mountain. Like this:
Perfect. It looks a little dull, doesn't it? Put some decorations. First put the levels on the overworld then the decorations. I won't use paths, but I will put it like the levels were already beaten. With the decorations and the levels, it will look much more pretty.
The final thing. Put an island attached to the overworld.
Part 2: Palletes
The title is explained what's this part about.
Open your palette editor. You should see a bunch of colors.
First, I will explain what NOT to do with your palettes. Don't do this.
It looks awful and ugly.
Now, if you want to make a good palette, you need to get something soothing. Example:
How did I did that? Simple, change the first color of the grassland palette tiles, then the last one, and finally, hold Alt and right click at the first tile, then again, hold Alt, and right click at the last tile. Still you have to watch out so the first and the last tile will have the same color.
If you want to make a wasteland, you just have to do the same thing just with different colors. I have something like this:
Well, that is wrong! The island is still bright. Now that I've changed the island palette, I have something like this:
Let's say you want a dream land. How will we make that? Simple. Just take some colors like red & blue and put them on your overworld. I've got this:
And that's it for the Part 2 of this tutorial. Next I will learn you how to create events and paths.
Now, you've read my tutorial (probably), you will get a bonus IPS patch. Feel free to edit the overworld and post the screenshots of your progress.
The IPS Patch:
Overworld Tutorial
Happy further overworlding.