[TILESET] Japanese Temple [With Source Files] officially pimped (Page 2 of 4)

Check the pixel/dpi settings when you exporting the image file to be 1024x1024.
The scripts solve different 'issues' with the gpu hardware/drivers, these will be partially fixed in the upcoming version (0.7). Dilate is required as transparent texels also store RGB color values which infer in the sampling process. borderfix prevents bleeding during the sampling process across tile boundaries in the tileset.

(The requirement of an asset pipeline is nothing special and other games also need scripts to 'fix' their images)

btw thanks @Landil for that writeup
Looking forward to the final outcome (:

By the way, do not forget to have another look at the pimp my style panda tileset. Instead of using the elliptical shape for the bonsai, you might use the circle, too. Regarding the bamboo tiles you might check that section, either.

I rendered the temple entrance in google sketchup (I use google sektchup v8.0) (download .skp file). I did not render the background and midground... that's just an image.

I made up the picture to show you the differences between the perspectives:

Normal perspective: The green and red vanishing points are on the same horizontal line (horizon). Yay!
Parallel projection: The green and red axis are ALWAYS horizontal. (They are parallel, that's the reason why they call it parallel projection )

If anyone knows a good free file host pls tell me. Solidfiles sometimes tricks the people to download and install adware. So please, you do not need to insall anything!

These are the grass bushes with orange blossoms.

If you wanna see that teestyle means less details, then compare the old jungle tileset (0.4) with the current version.

The old jungle doodads (This was my first tileset )

The reworked jungle doodads, with less details and more teestyle.
I/We reworked the jungle theme, because it sucked. It was really really hard to create the first tileset. But deciding that it sucked and starting from scratch was harder. But it was worth it, was not it?

colors used in the old tileset: countless
colors used in the rework: brown, green, yellow and gray

Thank you for the image showing the difference between the two perspectives.  If you look Parallel projection or Parallel perspective up on google you don't get very many good examples.  It was quite confusing when people said that it needed to be in this perspective. 

Also about free hosting.  DeviantArt is where I put all of my art.  It is free and you don't have to worry about people downloading malware.  It may be a little more complex then you want.  You do have to give it a category and tell whether it has any mature content but apart from that you can just upload images pretty quickly.  I like to tell everyone what the license the peace is licensed under, give a description and tag it, but I am also trying to get more people to view my art. 

I did not know you wanted me to look at grass_doodads to see these orange blossom bushes.  are you wanting me to add these orange blossoms?

I think there is a lot more detail in the current version then you make it out to be.  When you say strip out the detail it seems as though you are saying that there can be no detail at all.  But look at the lock and the gold trip in the chest, and the side of the new statue.  This is a lot more detail then I thought you were saying was allowed in tile sets. and this made no since.  I can see clearly that the first doodad has way to much detail and compared to my first try I think it was somewhere in the middle of these two.  I understand what you are getting at now.

Thank you for this I see what you mean.

Is there anything else you guys can see that can be done to this tile set?

Ok thanks

I'll make you an offer. You have to choose either the blue or the red pill.

Blue pill: the community tileset
The Japanese Temple Tileset will be your tileset! You will decide how exactly the tileset looks like. You decide which shapes or colors will be used, which doodads will be used and so on.
I will give you some tips how to improve your teestyle.
Result: the tileset won’t get official

Red pill: the official tileset
You want this tileset to become official! Great choice!
You will draw lots of graphics, but you will have to listen carefully to the gfx-team advices. We will help you and guide you through this long journey and at the end there will be a new official tileset.
But we decide which graphics will get official. We will help you to choose the proper colors, edit the shapes … to get the right teestyle.

Taking both pills: (you are a smartass )
You will make your community tileset. We will use it to make an official one.

Ooo, ooo the red pill, I choose the red pill... I saw this in a movie once and some guy wanted to go back and take the blue pill but he died at the end and the hero go the girl... I choose the red pill.  is it... is it candy?

I never wanted you guys to just put my stuff into the game.  I knew that there would be some changes to them.  I did not see before what the big deal with some of my details were as there are a lot of community tilesets that I agree have way too many details.  I thought my set was on the low end of the detail spectrum.

And now I am asking if there is anything else that needs to be done?  Can anyone think of other objects that should be added to this set? Or is the set good?

Are the bamboo sticks supposed to be main tiles or background doodads? Look at the panda theme pimp my style you linked to.  Have a closer look at the related advices.

You trees look a bit flat. First of all please use circles.
Then Compare the shading of your trees to the grass doodads trees. Try to copy the way how it is shaded. Maybe it's helpful if you draw the shadows in the grass style and then remove some parts of the shades with small circles afterwards.

Look at the grass diodads to see how the trunks are shaded. Do it the same way

I like this new version of your trees :-)

Can you change the diagonal bamboo like this ? It's just a fix about the perspective (the new version is on the right)

Sorry, it's not about placement, I placed it randomly. Look at the diagonal bamboo. I made the section curved instead of straight.

I fixed the bamboo water thingy, made it smaller and moved it up top.

That gave me more room for another top to the statue.  If you are wondering why the katana is square at the end it is because it is in its sheath.

The green squares are spots that are open and can be filled with more objects.  The red squares are tiles that are open but would make map making a  bit harder. If I filled the red squares you would have to make more selections to get the trees, temple, arch, statue, blue lanterns example in your map.  Or you would have to delete something from the map once you placed it down. I don't know if it is normal or according to the tee style to place objects in the red squares so I wanted to ask the community.

According to me, there is no problem to fill red square. Of course, it's better to fill green one in first, but placing doodad never takes too much time, even if you have to delete some tiles after.