Saturday, December 21, 2019

Parallax Mapping Part 2 - 12/21/2019

As tempting as it is to go back and make every map in the entire game like this, the reality is that doing so would seriously delay the games completion, as there are already over 600 maps (and it's always possible that there will be even more by the time I'm finished).

It's surprising how drastically different parallax maps appear in the RPG Maker editor vs what they look like when actually playing the game. Like this one, for example: 



Sunday, December 8, 2019

Parallax Mapping


After a whole lot more problems than I'd have preferred, I've finally managed to create a working, multi-layered map made entirely in Gimp. This one's layers are Base,Grass 1, Grass 2, Flowers, and Trees, and though I think parallax maps allow for much more detail than ones made in RPG Maker, I'm only going to rework 3-4 of my existing ones.