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1.Intoduction:
Piccolo,the downloader;
the downloader,Piccolo;pleasure to meet you. :)
2.About the tileset:
The tileset HandDrawn is a very special tileset,as
it was drawn by hand(duh).
It took me half a day to finish(that's NOT
much!),but it still looks cool!
The only things I had to do:
3.The Tutorial:
The whole thing is as easy as stealing a lolly from a
kid.(A really HUGE kid maybe...:)
The only things you need are:
A sheet of paper,a scanner,pens,MS Paint and a tiny bit
of experience with the prog.
Now open the tileset via JCS and watch me explain:
The earth tiles at the top were simply made out of a
brown square painted with a felt-pen on a sheet of paper.
I scanned it,opened MS Paint and made a blank area of
32*X * 32*X pixels(you'll have to know a little mathematics,ya know)
Then I just put it in and saved it as a 256 colours
Bitmap.
Grass was the same with green and darker green.
The rock tiles were all made with a pencil,even the
marble-like thingies.
They were supposed to be grey,too,but the computer turned
the light pencil-grey into,uh,that colour.
Don't ask why!:)
The blocks are made with a dark and a lighter blue,the
darker one used to put stripes in.
The way cool sky tiles(they're even texturable!!:)were
made with a normal,light blue pencil.
The clouds are what you get if you make pencil-grey too
light,the scanner won't see it!
The cool water was made by a huge square made with one of
those thick,waterproof felt-pens.
Wood(looks stupid!),simply made with red.
The background mountain was trickier:
Using paint,you can easily find out what the needed area
in pixels is in cm.
With that info,you can make a fitting background.
Logo was of course not self-drawn,and OF COURSE I also
used some paint-tools to shape stuff and give it borders.
But the rough stuff's all made by myself!
NOTE:Converting something scanned into 256 colours may
look different from putting it into a 256 coloursBitmap!!!!!!)
NOTE:You don't even have to give things a pattern,the
computer will automatically give it one.
4.Other Stuff:
There's also a nice example level called "HDex.j2l"
It uses the music file"FF2cid.it",taken from Final
Fantasy3.
That'S all.
Say thank you!:)
