Making New Terrain Tiles...

[pr0gger]

Erp. I'm thinking of making new tiles for Days of Conquest, because:

1) The tiles look to real, and don't match the units' graphics.
2) The tiles dodge, and that's hard to fix.
3) I wanna make the water animate.
4) I didn't make them.

My main problem was #2, with the dodgy-ness of the tiles... they didn't fit together, so, are there any programs that can help with that?

[na_th_an]

Nope, but there is a sollution I use.

First of all, make 4 tiles, not one. Let's say the 4 tiles are drawn together, with this layout:

Code:

12
34

where 1, 2, 3 and 4 are the four tiles.

Now, in your drawing program, cut and paste the tiles so you have them rearranged this way:

Code:

43
21

You'll notice the tile clash as a cross in the middle. You just have to fix that cross. Be sure not to change the borders.

Once you have eliminated the tile clash, you can be sure that the four tiles will fit with each other always that you arrange them like this in your map:

Code:

121212121212...
343434343434...
121212121212...
343434343434...
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.
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