New to Era tileset. (Need criticism)
 

Hi. I'm thinking of trying to apply to Era iPhone or Era PC's Level team.

I'm not sure if this is a good level, as this is my first one. I am thinking of taking away the billboard (it looks a little sloppy and unnecessary) put up next to the building, and maybe add another house either to the top left of the level or bottom. So basically, this is what I got so far. I kind of slammed a lot of flowers into the level and almost the same thing for trash (for the iPhone server community because of so many players on picking flowers). I wasn't too confident with the grass detail, because I couldn't find many tiles for grass detail.

Era iPhone and I think PC spam flowers too, so I wasn't sure if I should of implemented it.

I might also think this building is too small, so I might expand it. I did not learn to use the whole tile set yet either. I will be eventually making the level better, and inserting an indoor level for the building which sounds pretty easy to do.

Here's my picture of the work in progress so far.

(NOTE: I didn't put in some images I thought would of looked good with the level because of it not showing up in my Offline Editor, as most did.)

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Criticism is recommended when you post, but don't be too harsh on me. Thanks!

The grass and road tiles should be filled with more than one tile because right now the pattern is way too noticeable. I'm pretty sure the tileset has a 2x2 road pattern, and a 3x3 or 4x4 grass pattern that you should use.

Other than that and the ugly sign, not too bad.

Thanks Mattkan and Salesman! Appreciated it. :).

When making Era levels I learned that you have to completely toss away all "UN" styles you have and start fresh. Detailing like that doesn't work. It looks ugly. Try to be a bit logical.

The road itself, as salesman said, has a pattern you should use.

Looks ok for a first Era level. Keep at it.

Here, I updated my level by a lot in terms of moving the flowers around, removing the sign, and adding a new building. :)


I hope this is better to you. I also modified the streets a little, it's exactly like PC and Era's streets now.

What should be available to detail the roof more on the newer building? I seen most buildings on Era with just a regular roof, sometimes with barrels like I did.

Basically, I'm trying to fit in Era's style.
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Here's my final version. Does this look a lot more appealing by look?

:)

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Remove 80% of the trash on the road and sidewalk.

Wouldn't it be hard for players to gather the trash then? I could do that if I wanted to apply to Era PC.

EDIT: It look likes Andrew liked my work, and I may be a future staff in the future, so I'm crossing my fingers on this.

On the mean time, i think I may try out to LAT on Era PC. I'm not too confident though.

All trash is spawned on the world by a database script most likely, and not actual scripts placed in the levels.

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It's great man, keep up the good work. :)

Ah, I see.. I'l just leave it there for now though.

@Regret, thanks.

looks good.. but the street looks like crap.

I would like to criticize the Era tileset. I think it should be isometric, like Fourside.
Maybe this suggestion would be more appropriate for a thread on the Era forums? I'm not sure.

http://walkthrough.starmen.net/earth...s/fourside.png

Well, that is a sweet idea, to have a nice looking era, but that is simply not going to happen. People need to realize as much as we hate the tileset, it isn't going to change.. Or at least, not to anything this good or drastic..

Graal and isometric do NOT go together.
The whole thing was based off of Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
Making it isometric is completely screwing with the base of the game. It would be weird as hell.