Ever thought of creating your own tilesets? Either for yourself or for sale? Why don’t you check out this very candid discussion of what it takes from one of our more accomplished tileset artists? I’m Celianna, known mostly for the resources that I create for RPG Maker. To this date, I have created three full tilesets for RPG Maker.

RPG Maker VX Ace. All Discussions. Anyone can tell me a good software to make sprite and ennemy for rpg maker. If it can do tiles would be nice too. Something simple, i'm not a really good artist. They help you to do unlimitted coloration of character colors that spam a lot of 8-character set sheets. But so far, it's hard to load one. RMVXA Scripts - Yanfly Engine Ace The legendary Yanfly (responsible for the equally legendary Yanfly Engine scripts) has released several scripts for RMVXA. As far as I know these are the first complete scripts for the new RPG Maker.

The first one was simply a collection of all the resources I’ve made over the course of three years that I spent making free resources for the community. The second one was my first real tileset, in the sense that everything was 100% made by me, and also included a TileE. The funny thing is, when I assembled my first tileset together, it took me about two weeks (since I did end up creating new resources for it, and I had to fix autotiles) to wrap it up. Not bad, I thought. I can easily do a tileset on my own in a month!

Or so I thought. Creating your own tileset from scratch probably takes four times longer than you had originally estimated. And even then some more, just to be safe. When I started, days trickled by as if it was nothing, and before I knew it, I was only half-way done and already two months had passed. I eventually managed to finish it up after three months.

That’s not to say I worked every single day (I did take breaks to prevent myself from going insane from drawing), nor did I work in a consistent schedule (some days I’d work 12 hours, other days it was 3 hours). All in all, I’d say I spent around 200 hours creating this tileset. So I had finally managed to finish one tileset, I figured I’d be better at estimating how much work goes into creating them. For my next tileset, which hasn’t yet been released, I wanted to create more.

I wanted to create an exterior and interior tileset for the B-E tiles, not to mention different seasons for the exterior tiles. That, and I was going to create fitting icons, and bunch of character sets. All in all, it was more work than my previous tileset. I estimated I’d be done in four months. Creating different seasons for exterior tiles is actually quite a lot of work. But four months passed, and I wasn’t even half-way done. In fact, I even managed to scratch some things I had made because I wasn’t satisfied with them and restarted from the ground up.

This set me back a lot. Not to mention real life bothered me quite a bit (not only did I go on vacation to another country for two months, I also spend a month and a half moving out into a new place), which made sure that my tileset’s progress dragged on forever. To this date, at least as far as this article goes, I am only about 93% done with my newest tileset, and I’ve been working on this since March. It is now November. That’s almost 9 months. Honestly, either I’m terrible at estimating, or I’m severely underestimating the amount of effort and work that goes into creating a tileset. And that’s not just me, it’s what a lot of people do.

It’s not about skill, or finesse, or how good of an artist you are—though those things will certainly help you out—it’s all about managing your time, and realizing that completing these tiny images will eat up a huge chunk of it. More than you’d originally thought.

A lot of budding artists, much like myself, think it’ll be easy to create their own tileset. After all, they can already draw, so it shouldn’t be hard making their own tileset, right? This is why a lot of artists still end up relying on the default RTP, or resource packs already made available to the public for their tilesets, with maybe an edit here or there, but never almost 100% custom. Because it’s simply faster this way, even if they could, theoretically, make their own tileset.

But no one wants to spend six months on only the graphics when they have to make the actual game as well. Because, well, creating a tileset takes a lot of effort! Way more than you’d think if you looked at the finished product. And that’s a mistake a lot of people make, and they end up underestimating the effort it took to finish it. Actualizar wifi palm tx hard. This is showing not even 1/4 of the entire tileset. That’s how much work there is.