How do you make custom tiles?

[van]

Does anybody have a recommendation on how to create your own tiles? Like lets say I wanna make a sidewalk but not use the tiles in currently given.

[Calb]

so you need to navigate to the rtp folder inside of rpg maker. To do this, either find rpg maker in your steam library, right click it > properties > local files > browse local files. Or navigate to your steam COMMON folder, find rpg maker > rtp > graphics > and tilesets should be near the bottom. Right click it and "edit with" and there ya go.

[kittylitterproduction]

I recommend against editing the RTP content itself. Always work on a copy.

[Calb]

^

[Marquise*]

Yeah... also, someone recently posted a very nice set of templategrid on this forum if you want to start up from scratch. Remember tought the logic of the views for tiles and sprites in a game; we see TOP and Front both at the same time and TOP and REAR if a character walks north or TOP and Side if the character goes east west!

There are lessons links on that in the pinned Before You Post tread. I still find some REALLY interesting bits there even if I am supposed to know all that stuff already! Really tasty crispy infos there that are sweet on the creativity.

Hope to see your tiling soon!

[van]

Would you recommend Photoshop as a place to create tiles/characters.

[Calb]

photoshop, gimp, heck even paint on the newer windows. They're fine as long as they can support a grid and transparencies. photoshop would do just fine

[Calb]

i would Use either a premade template or use the tileset.png in rtp as a reference. Each square is 32x32 px and charater sets are 3x4 (32x3 across, 32x4 down).

[Marquise*]

I definately do my stuff In Photoshop most of the time. As for characters I guess some here will use GCH for regular sized sprites.