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Alais:
Post here what you think of the new tiles (as seen on the screenshot), what you like and dislike, and any suggestions for improving them. I am currently the tile artist, and would very much appreciate both constructive criticism and positive feedback :)
E.g. Better colour palette, "real" depth in water (like in diamond/pearl)

You may also post suggestions for what kinds of new tiles you would like to see.
E.g. Flowing lava tiles and a volcano set, more types of flowers and rocks to make the open areas interesting, more types of trees.


Known issues:

    * Tile pixel alignment errors on a roof
    * Slight blending errors in short grass edge shading
    * Missing player character shadows
    * Variable shadow colour and lightness
    * Forest shadows may need to be larger
    * Slight lack of embellishments in mapping (flowers, rocks, weeds etc.)
    * Missing anti-aliasing in places

Kuhns:
-Stares at pictures-

I'm digging the overall style, and that's one nice Pokemon Center in the second shot. ;D

But, in the first shot there are the two types of trees. The big...kinda fluffy one, and the Christmas tree looking ones. The big one, I don't know if it's the shading or what, but it looks more...3Dish. If you look at it, and the tips of the Christmas other trees peeking above the chatbox, you can see a noticeable difference in their renders. :) Err--unless that's just me.

And the second critic is more me than you, but the Pokemon Center...hm. I always...imagined that Pokemon Centers were a kind of...status for a city or town, kinda like a really expensive store is to a real life city or town. The town in the picture looks like a backwater village at the end of a swamp--err, in that it doesn't really have any noticeable roads/walkways.

>_>;;;

It's like, smaller towns usually don't have the same things as bigger towns/cities. Why should Pokemon Centers in PU be any different?

P.S.

That's a really nice plane. :P

Alais:
The pine trees are the ones you make the huge forests that surround towns and routes out of, they're meant to look a little 3D, same as the big tree, but the big one is meant to be all puffy whereas the pine trees are spiky. I know what you mean though, both those trees have been through a lot of rework already haha.

I was planning to make a different Pokemon centre for every town in the game, or at least a lot of different kinds, since that's how it works in the anime. I always thought it was boring the way the official games did it, as the Pokecentres are usually pretty spectacular to look at. I have a folder full of Pokecentre screenshots from the anime actually, lol. I think the Pokecentre in the screenshot may be a bit high class for that town, perhaps I will use a different one, but it was my first attempt at drawing any building at all xD so it was that one or nothing.

...and thanks about the plane ^^ it is probably my favourite thing of all :p but I'm biased.

ghostman50:
My suggestion doesnt include the tiles or anything like that (I dont think); but the chat, I think, should be changed. The words go through the player's name. I think that having a "mini" bubble above/below the players name (above the sprite's head) would be better. I read, somewhere, that there would be a local chat and world chat.

While playing in MMOs like runescape, guild wars, and WoW world chat flies by so fast and it can be hard to see the player speaking and the entire message. Sometimes a player may have to rely on looking at the screen, to see who's talking. Not having the names blocked would help a ton.

Not sure if this has been brought up just a thought.

Dvys:
Bubbles above the heads? So if ten players next to you say something, you can't see anything?
And if the bubbles disappear, the message is also gone..Forever..
A chatbox, like there is now, would be better. Even if it's going fast (the bubble's aren't?) you can read back!  ;D

However, I agree with some of your opinions. The chat could be going fast, so my suggestion is to change the 'World Chat' to 'Island Chat' or something like that. Just a thinking ^^

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