Announcement

[Ryan A]

Welcome to RyanA's Map Tutorials!

Hai all ^^ This is going to be the third mapping tutorial in my series ^^ This tutorial covers how to create a house!

First, we will create a blank map named house and fill it with the black tile on tile A, you could also leave it as it is ^^ Usually houses can be anywhere from the default (17x13?) up to 30x30.



Next, we will add the roof. Like I mentioned in the shop tutorial, not all roof and wall tiles work well together. For this I have done 3 basic square rooms,
a kitchen, bedroom and other room ^^



Now we add the walls, floors, carpets and tables. Like before, I've gone for a standard wood floor with a carpet in the centre of the kitchen and living room, with tables in the middle of those ^^ I used the stone table for the kitchen as I think it works a lot better with the kitchen tiles. When placing floors, don't
feel limited to using 1 type of floor tile, in fact it's sometimes better if you use different floor tiles for the different rooms ^^



Finally, we add details. Windows have been added in some parts, when placing windows try not to place them too close together, usually a tile apart at the
minimum ^^ In the kitchen, adding tiles like the sink, oven, food tiles, crates and the types of cupboards works quite well ^^ There are also the shelf tiles that I have placed in between the two windows that go quite nicely in kitchens. For the living room, I added some seats near the table and added a second table in the top left with a book on and a book case in the top right. I'm not quite sure why I added in the second table but I liked how it turned out ^^
In the bedroom I added some beds and some tables underneath them. I left an empty space to the side of the beds. The default RTP has one of the worst little table tiles ever, no matter how I look at it it just doesn't look right, so instead I prefer to use the autotable tile, it works quite nice and you can add things on top of it without using events ^^ I added some paintings and a clock to some of the walls. It's nice to use tiles like those but don't use too many or the walls can look cluttered. Similarly, try not to add too many types of cupboard/crate/chairs or other such items (to avoid a cluttered look) and avoid placing them in areas that restrict the players movement.



This concludes my third tutorial, hope you liked it and if you find any parts not easy to understand, post on here and I shall fix! ^^
For my next tutorial, I will be using a poll. I have chosen 3 different maps to tutorialise and will do the one with the most votes ^^ I'll get round to doing the
other ones at a later date ^^

Poll closed! Thanks all for voting ^^ Castles wins, stay tuned for it over the next week ^^

RyanA

This post has been edited by Ryan A: Nov 14 2009, 03:56 PM

[mudducky]

Another great mapping tutorial Ryan! Well explained and good pictures.

[Jet]

I like it and i voted for castle. Though, it'd be nice to add a part for recommended map sizes for houses.

[livpj11]

This is another great tutorial. One I am looking forward to is the cave interior tutorial.

[Hellblaze123]

great tutorial dude, i voted for the Castle

[Sen?]

Cool mapping tutorial, the layout is simple and elegant. I voted for villages though.

[MrMcPie]

Wow! I'm deffintly using these tutorials! I recommended it and now I am enjoying it. Great work!
I voted for villagers too because my next game IS a game where you build your own village!

[Ryan A]

Thanks for the feedback all ^^ Glad you like my tutorials ^^ The poll will close next sunday, looks like castles in the lead so far ^^

[MrMcPie]

Will it be castle interiors or exteriors?

[Yoshio]

ah, this is the house design that I really liked (minus the too-short stairs)

[IamaRhino]

It looks rather balanced and the mapping is above average, the only thing that bugs me is the similarity in design of all three rooms.

[Ryan A]

If castles is top by this sunday I will do a tutorial on interiors and exteriors ^^ To be fair, if I end up doing the tutorial on the other 2 I'll do a second tutorial to go along with that too ^^

This post has been edited by Ryan A: Nov 11 2009, 06:57 AM

[adventureRPG2009]

If castles is top by this sunday I will do a tutorial on interiors and exteriors ^^ To be fair, if I end up doing the tutorial on the other 2 I'll do a second tutorial to go along with that too ^^

I voted for castle.

[Ryan A]

Unless there is a sudden 10+ votes in the other 2, looks like castles wins ^^ Keep an eye out for it in the next week ^^
I don't know how to close the poll so I shall just leave it like that until I found out how >_>

[ZeroManArmy]

These are beautfuil. Tutorials. I feel my self getting better at mapping! Thanks Man!

[JillSandwich]

Wow, that really helped me out. Thanks!

[Loaded]

Good tutorial, But I personally think the beginners should learn on there own instead of looking at tutorials for stuff like this.
Because come on, this isn't to hard

Good tut though.

Quit spamming. The tutorial board is for learning, no matter what it is.

[mudducky]

Loaded, that's totally subjective. Mapping doesn't come easy to everyone. Maybe it's easy for you, and that is great for you, but there are others that need to practice with using the tiles a while before they get the hang of it.

It does make perfect sense for beginners and others to read this as this tutorial would involve then practicing and trying mapping out for yourself. It makes it faster to gain a good understanding, in this case indoor mapping, then just guessing how to map with no steps or instructions or other guidance to follow.

[MrMcPie]

Beginners should learn on there own instead of looking at tutorials for stuff like this.

Well if they don't, where are they going to start?

I can't wait until the next tutorial. I've been checking every day this week!

[Ryan A]

Glad you are looking forward to it ^^ Unfortunatly I've been ill since saturday :< Havn't had a good chance to start on the tutorial yet, still hoping to get it done by sunday, though ^^