[Mapping] Houses with more than one floor.

Hello, world. You probably already know this, but it could would be hepful for new users. It's short and simple, and I promise it won't hurt. Unless you want it to.
So let's start.

When laying down houses like this, you have to pay attention to details. These details may seem simple, but they can make a big difference. So let's say you just made a house with two floors and it looks like this:

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Sure, it's a nice house, but it could be better. There's no roof on the second floor. At least it looks like it. How do we fix it? We raise the roof above the second floor to show our players that we actually care about dimensions.

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See what I did there? I simply added a new row of roof tiles above the second floor. It's really simple and it also makes your game magical and sparkly. (Windows were moved around, but that's not important.)

Ok, the house looks better already. But it still isn't ideal. See the first floor? It casts a shadow. The second should cast one too! The shadow used can be found in Tileset B:

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Ta-daah! Much better than the first house, right? This technique may seem obvious, but I've seen a lot of games where the mapper seems to forget that even if you can only map in 2D, you have to make it look 3D.

Well, that's it for my first tutorial. Tell me if you learned something useful.

Nice tip the second floor's shadow, now that I think about it, all my maps didn't have such shadow XD.

sweet tut! I looked for one in the past, but found nothing...

Lol, I have a feeling you made this to get me to change my maps... >_>
Anyways, awesome tutorial you got here.
And yes... I'll show that I care about dimensions...

dezz123 wrote:Lol, I have a feeling you made this to get me to change my maps... >_>
Anyways, awesome tutorial you got here.
And yes... I'll show that I care about dimensions...

It wasn't anything personal, but you may have inspired this tutorial.

Ha! I knew it! xD

This is very helpful for beginners.
Good work!
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Lovely tutorial, Vecto!!
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Akir, as I said in another post, please do not necropost. (Revive a dead post)

Akir, as I said in another post, please do not necropost. (Revive a dead post)

We can allow necroposting at the moment, since we don't have many topics here yet.

Nice Vecto good tutorial

Omegas, can you please close this to prevent further necroposting? >_>