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[CrayDragon]

Here's a tutorial on creating
Dark Forests and Jungles
...with Mack's tiles!
Look at the bottom for the final product!

Part 1: Base

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This is the point where I'm always thinking to myself: This map is not gonna be good...
Fear not, it'll get better.
Using the tree autotiles, make some blotches here and there.

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Now fill in the grass. This should be very easy if you know how to create shapes other than squares.

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Part 2: Randomizing Trees

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Now, as soon as the words "dense forest" and "tile b" come into your mind, don't just go gallivanting off making SQUARES.

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Eeeugh! No! Squares suck. So now what?
Pick a tree, any tree, and place it at random intervals of the map. But don't let this one take up too much room,
as you'll need to have room for other trees too.

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Now, take another kind of tree and place it at only semi-random places. Use the first trees as guidelines.
You will end up taking off bits of the previous trees. We'll fix that later.

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Yes, yes my pretties! Randomize! But leave walking space for the player. If not, the player will be caught at a dead end when he's supposed to keep going, and that's no good.
Once again, keep adding trees and pay attention to the boundaries of where the player can walk.

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Part 3: Little Plants

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Pay. Attention. To the boundaries. That's most of what I have to say here.
So, it's a bit hard to see, but I placed little bushes here in exchange for some tree bits. Once again, we will replace those. You'll see how.

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Those I set as impassable. the next is a teensy bit tricky, so don't fall asleep.

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I've set up some flower patches here and there. But there is a desired order for them to be placed.

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From Left to Right, it goes from Outside to Inside.

Part 4: Events

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And now, we add empty events to fill in the spots we removed.
Like so....

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And make sure whichever ones you want the player to walk under are set to "Above Characters" priority!
Make a new event now. Parallel Process. Top corner of the map (so its easy to find).
Click tint screen, and for best results, do the following:

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Of course, if it doesn't look right to you, you may tweak it.
Make sure the amount of frames to wait is 1, and tick off the box that makes the player wait!

Things you may want to consider about forest mapping (optional):

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Little bit of scripting to consider:

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Using this image
(put it in Graphics/Pictures)

and woratana's Multiple Fog script, in the event that does Tint Screen, use the event command Script (not Comment!) to prompt the following command:

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$fog.name = 'ForestShade'
$fog.hue = 0
$fog.tone = [0,0,0,0]
$fog.opacity = 41
$fog.blend = 0
$fog.zoom = 100
$fog.sx = 0
$fog.sy = 0

$fog.show(1)

look down for the result.

And so, now I give you the result!
Please note, I took away some of the things I had in the previous images and added a script for the tree canopy shadow across the map.


Support? Sure.

CODE

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[Dariathan]

This is a very nice tutorial on how to make a forest. I like it.
One thing I'd like to say though, is that in the last part with the red circles, Mack has a tile you place over those corners to make them better.
Other than that this will definitely help those with trouble in mapping forests.

[CrayDragon]

Ah. See, I just took the tilesets from Adela Isra. I didn't get that

[MagicKid]

This is a really good tutorial, it'll help me with dark dark dark places

[SamGreen]

Very nice tut CrayDragon

[CrayDragon]

Thank you guyse
The result is especially fancy when using Thomas Edison VX.
Of course, that's only when creating fantasy realms.

[quigonkeichy]

awesome tutorial, has inspried me to map a kinda elvish forest. incidentally, the maps are nice with some silent hill 2 tunes on em

[CrayDragon]

Glad.
Horror is, actually, the mood meant to be set by maps like this.

This post has been edited by CrayDragon: Aug 19 2010, 09:26 PM

[moneymenace]

Wow! That's a really cool effect! I always sucked at forests. I did squares as you told us not to. I always also forget to use the tinting function, which can make the most out of a scene.

This post has been edited by moneymenace: Aug 20 2010, 02:09 PM

[CrayDragon]

Wow! That's a really cool effect! I always sucked at forests. I did squares as you told us not to. I always also forget to use the tinting function, which can make the most out of a scene.

Yuup!~ tinting helps.
...
Remember to randomize your trees or I shall bite your head off.
(^,..,^)

[feedingwolves]

Great tutorial! I might try this method but with cave tiles to make my caves less linear.

[chorrol]

Nice tut, good use of autotiles. I never use them myself when I map woods (Wonder why..)

[CrayDragon]

It's because they're blocky as hell.
But you can't really map a closed-in place without autotiled walls. So what better for a dense forest than the trees?

[Sketcy-Sketch]

Thanks for the tutorial. I don't know why I never thought to use events to overlap the trees.
I guess I never occured to me. I don't use the Mack trees that often, but now I think I will.
Your maps look great. Thanks for posting.

[TheHunter1787]

Outstanding.
This is a way quicker way to do those eventing trees than my way.
Thanks.

[xendra]

Where did you get the tileset? This an actual epic win

[CrayDragon]

The ones I'm currently using are:

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All credit goes to Mack. But if you could, please don't use the glowing tree

[xendra]

The ones I'm currently using are:

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All credit goes to Mack. But if you could, please don't use the glowing tree

Well, alright, I won't...

[CrayDragon]

Thank you. It's crucial to my game, and majhost won't let me upload an edited image of my TileB.

[KingShen]

This tutorial is perfect for creating that eerie mood like something big is going to happen Nice Job!