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Creating Tiles Part 3

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Guide to Creating Tiles in RMVX-Ace Style
by Lunarea

Part 3: Shapes, Edges, and Palettes

Tutorials 1 and 2 covered the theory necessary to creating tiles. Part 3 will also be covering some of the basic theory, but will also begin to introduce practice.

Included in this tutorial:

Shapes

  • Understanding basic shapes.
  • Creating top-down perspective with basic shapes

Edges

  • Anti-aliasing edges and transparency
  • Straight edges and right-side RTP edge

Palettes

  • Understanding Contrast and Saturation
  • Creating a palette from RTP.

Read the full tutorial by downloading the PDF here!

Creating Tiles Part 2

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Guide to Creating Tiles in RMVX-Ace Style
by Lunarea

Part 2: Perspective

In part 2 of Lunarea’s Creating Tiles tutorial, she is going to tell us all about the perspective used in RPG Maker VX Ace’s tilesets, a common perspective used in video games know as the Top Down Perspective.

Included in this tutorial is:

  • Discussion of what top down perspective is and how it is a combination of two real life perspectives used to create the illusion of depth in a 2D game.
  • How to draw some real life shapes in that perspective.
  • What steps that are needed to “rotate” a tile.

Read the full tutorial by downloading the PDF here!

Golden Week-End Sale!

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Golden Week is just kicking off in Japan which means a lot of people travelling, spending time with their families, and generally having a good time. Our Tokyo team will be enjoying Golden Week but we couldn’t let them have all the fun. We decided to set up a special Golden Week-End sale for you guys. From now until Monday at noon (PST) you can save 40% on any of our products. RPG Makers, Resource Packs, Games, you name it!

Creating Tiles Part 1

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Guide to Creating Tiles in RMVX-Ace Style
by Lunarea

Part 1: Tools

RMVX-Ace tiles are created through a process of digital painting. This process is different from traditional pixel art, both in terms of technique and in tool requirements.

We will go over the tools you will need to create tiles in this tutorial:

  • Art program with transparent background, brushes and ability to save in .png format (examples: Photoshop, GIMP)
  • A hard round brush and a soft round brush
  • A 32×32 pixel grid, created through art program settings or made manually
  • A mouse or a tablet

Take the time to get used to making fluid and uninterrupted lines with the mouse or tablet. Practice drawing curves as well as straight lines (see PDF for examples of shapes).

Read the full tutorial by downloading the PDF here!

Part 2 will cover RMVX-Ace’s perspective, object depth and object edges/outlines.

Arabian Nights Tileset Pack

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…like Arabian days, more often than not, are hotter than hot, in a lot of good ways. And so is our new Tileset Pack.

Fantasy isn’t all about knights and wizards in their long robes. And we think its time for a new fantasy! Enter our resource pack inspired by On Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian Nights Tileset Pack.

Included are beautiful new tiles for interior settings…

… and majestic exterior tiles.

Are you ready for this magic carpet ride? Act now to also receive an Arabian music addon! Check out more about this awesome pack here!

Ace Almost 6 Months Old! Review Drive!

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So its approaching six months since the release of RPG Maker VX Ace! Overall the response to our new version of RPG Maker has been phenomenal. Thanks for all the feedback we’ve received, and all the sales.

Ace has been a whopping success, so why don’t we work on getting the word out even more!

Knowing how awesome our fans are, and you guys are awesome, I know you are asking yourselves: How can I help?

Well our first step on getting the word out there is to get more reviews of our product on the major site CNET. I mean, just look at that one lonely review for our product page for VX Ace.

Now, we don’t want just a bunch of 5 star votes, we want honest detailed reviews. Its not just about a number to us, its about visible feedback for potential customers. We want to make sure the people who would want our software really know what its like, and the best way to do that is have you guys talk about it and tell them why they would want it.

Disclaimer: If your honest opinion is a 5 star review, we are definitely perfectly happy with that part, too.

I’ve always thought our product stands on its own, being a unique entry in game development software. Nothing comes close to the simplicity of RPG Maker, especially not with the amount of power and flexibility we provide. But people won’t know that unless you help us get the word out.

If you have the time, and own some of our older products, we’d also appreciate if you took the time to review those on CNET as well:

RPG Maker XP has a lot of reviews, but a lot of them are old and outdated. If we can get some fresh reviews, that would be awesome!

RPG Maker VX, while not having as lonely of a review as VX Ace, could use some reviews as well.

Thank you for your time, and I hope you will share your honest unfiltered opinion of our excellent software on CNET, and other sites as well. Thanks for being great fans.

Modern Tileset Pack Interview!

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Today, we put up the first in a line of Modern Tileset packs created by one of our very wonderful and friendly forum Admins: Lunarea.

This pack includes everything you need to build a city street, and a home interior!

You can head over to the store and pick it up right now!

I took the time to catch up with her and ask her some fun questions about her experience with RPG Maker, Video Games, Art, and creating tiles. So let’s get started! Continue reading →

Resource Staff Release May 2012

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Today, I’m here to tell you about some of my really good friends in the RM Community, and share some of their work with you.

In the many years that I’ve been part of the community, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some amazing artists and musicians, and to watch them work together on various projects. On our forums, we have gathered together a collection of these people, and they are working on what we call the Resource Staff.

Every month, the Resource Staff releases a collection of new resources, free to use for any noncommercial project. All you have to do is give credit to the original creator.

So, let’s get looking at this month’s release! Continue reading →

Intro to Scripting 3 with Tim

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Let’s revisit for a moment a topic that we discussed in our first tutorial, adjusting encounters so that they also happen while riding in the boat (or ship, or airship, for that matter). We saw how it was fairly easy to get this change in place, by only adjusting a few lines of code. But, we might notice there’s a slight problem… unless we craft dozens of different areas to perfectly match the contours of our water and land, we will end up with land dwellers attacking us while on the high seas, and sharks attacking us on land. Needless to say, this is kind of inadequate. Unfortunately, out of the box, there is no way to specify that troops only appear on certain types of tiles. So, we need to write a bit of script in order to make this work.

Before diving into how to do this, it’s worth digressing for just a brief moment to point out that a new feature in VX Ace, known as Regions, averts this issue. Though still impossible to define encounters based on tiles, rectangular areas have been replaced by regions, which can have any arbitrary shape by essentially painting them onto the map. So, the obvious solution would be to simply draw out separate land and water regions as needed, and assign appropriate troops to each. But until the English release, let’s continue looking at VX… Continue reading →

Wild Weekend Sale

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Been eyeing some of our products recently, but not sure if you want to take the dip? Maybe you are starting for the first time and want to pick up one of the makers, maybe you are an experienced RMer and just want to try out IGM, or maybe you want to pick up the Samurai VX RTP (which is also Ace compatible).

In all these cases we are here to help you make the decision easier. This weekend, and this weekend only you can receive a huge 40% discount on any of our current products. How can you get this discount? Just click the Big Shiny Button below or enter the coupon code “wildweekend” when checking out

Be sure to grab what you want before Monday, cause these prices aren’t going to last forever.