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Straight lines should be broken up when working with non man-made formations
Example:

Simply adding variation tiles isn't enough, a straight line must never be allowed to continue for too many tiles in any direction. this is even true of rivers and oceans (I see a few places in which people have kept this in mind and others in which it was completely ignored.)

http://www.turislazio.it/var/turismo_en ... _lakes.jpg


a few hidden messages are fine, but i don't think we should make them so obvious (even if zelda did it)


And can we make the cloud shadows in the woodland bigger
A geometric shape and its not a garden!acck

I understand that this is partly due to our tilesets being limited but anything we can do to stop our game from looking like a bad rpgmaker game is helpful
http://rpgmxpstudio.pellnet.ch/jeux/AVLR/AVLR_01.png


LoL, this fun is funny http://i48.servimg.com/u/f48/11/28/46/75/plaine10.png
such illogical placement of objects within the environment

You are a developer. You can upload stuff on forums. So don't link to some imageshack because it sucks. ;)

Regards.

Platyna wrote:You are a developer. You can upload stuff on forums. So don't link to some imageshack because it sucks.

Regards.

Sorry force of habit, I’ll start uploading directly to the forums

Well, some things look man-made, but are infact natural things. Look at the (former) Old Man of the Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain


I will admit that we have put in too many man-made looking things.

kr0n05931 wrote:Well, some things look man-made, but are infact natural things. Look at the (former) Old Man of the Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain


I will admit that we have put in too many man-made looking things.

"The straight line belongs to man, the curve to god." - Antoni Gaudi.

http://forums.themanaworld.org/download ... ew&id=1036
Example of bad mapping Example of good mapping I admit that its possible for nature terrain to look man made, but its not that common and should be avoided when mapping.

Len wrote:I admit that its possible for nature terrain to look man made, but its not that common and should be avoided when mapping.

Unless it's supposed to look man-made (like a garden). More tile variations will help.

jaxad0127 wrote:

Len wrote:I admit that its possible for nature terrain to look man made, but its not that common and should be avoided when mapping.

Unless it's supposed to look man-made (like a garden)

that goes without saying

The stone circles in woodland are supposed to look man-made.

Crush wrote:The stone circles in woodland are supposed to look man-made.

I don’t have a problem with the circles, I do however have a problem with X marks the spot or arrows made from flowers