Mapping Mixing of different assets

[Whitespirits]

Hi guys, so I have had a big game mapped on intersect for some time now! I just moved and changed all graphics to the ever popular time fantasy! being a dbz fan I noticed the similarity in style to GBA games. Hence I did some tone changes and wanted to ask opinion on the sprite/tile mix

 

[Refur]

I really like the tile and the character style, I think everything is according with each other. The only thing I see strange is the tree proportion with the character, maybe it's a little small and not realistic 

[Kibbelz]

At the moment your map consists of cliffs, trees and a pathway. A little more detail is needed but you're on the right track.

[Zetasis]

Haha, I did this awhile back myself. The only problem I ran into was the buildings. DBZ has an interesting building structure and using the time fantasy buildings I felt just wouldn't do. I guess I could have just made them myself but I never followed through with the idea. 

[Giligis]

They honestly look really well together! But like @Zetasis pointed out the buildings are unique like domes etc, so that will probably pose a bit of a problem, other than that they will work great. 

[Whitespirits]

adding a house from the series

 

[Bradley]

I think it fits well.

[Phenomenal]

@Whitespirits Fits well but needs the same style outline as the rest of the tiles imo.

[Zetasis]

It doesn't look completely terrible but the shading is killing me. Might just be me though. 

[Phenomenal]

@Zetasis Now that you say it, it needs to be kinda blurred in a way or maybe just shaded differently.

[Xeno]

8 minutes ago, PhenomenalDev said:

@Zetasis Now that you say it, it needs to be kinda blurred in a way or maybe just shaded differently.

 

Horrible advice to blur it. The shading is fine, and is how you would shade metallic surface with reflections. What's off is how it's dithered inappropriately. 

On another note, it does need an outline to match the current tileset.

[Phenomenal]

@Murdoc Yeah I can't do art so ignore my tips mainly  

[Whitespirits]

I think @Murdoc is right, the dithered needs to be bigger square to match perfectly or closer

[Xeno]

1 hour ago, Whitespirits said:

I think @Murdoc is right, the dithered needs to be bigger square to match perfectly or closer

 

Not quite what I was referring to. 

 

Here is an example of good dithering, called interlaced dithering:

 

Here is an example of bad dithering, which creates single pixel noise:

 

The other issue is that the dithering technique is not used in the Time Fantasy tile-set. The result is that the house doesn't match the style as much as it could, if let's say a non-dithered shading technique was utilized. However, it is the right resolution and the saturation matches fairly well so it's not a horrible fit. Give it a darker outline (such as seen in the trees) and it will match a little better. Best of luck.

[Whitespirits]

Thanks, I'm just considering setting up a play through game so people can make use of intersect

[Phenomenal]

@Whitespirits So like a demo? If so I'm completely up for that  

[Whitespirits]

if I get the time to do some quests and some story in I will host a game for people to play

[Whitespirits]

sorry double post, if I do a demo u guys want time fantasy heros or dbz theme?

[Phenomenal]

@Whitespirits What do you mean? I like the current fusion style you have now.

[Whitespirits]

I was just thinking of making demo with just time fantasy rather than dragonball z or to fuse and go with dbz demo

[Whitespirits]

so back to playing around with assets again and trying to get a good looking balance!

[Zetasis]

Doesn't look too bad. What tiles are those?

[Whitespirits]

I searched pokemon custom tiles and then trees and mixed a few with cliffs from fox

[Henry]

Looks good, yeah I have seen the tree sprites somewhere on deviant art just don't recall exactly

[Beefy Kasplant]

Looks pretty cool man! Funny, because I was also looking at Pokemon sprites for DBZ some time ago!