Tree connecting first attempt
 

Basically this is my first try ever connecting trees the right way, i sure hope i could get some feedback on how i could improve my connecting, if you can see errors.
don't look at the rest of the level, i know it's **** and i just wanted to fill the rest of the space, i believe there are some tile errors in the pathing which i really dont know how to solve at this time.

feedback please.

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Idk what to say, but well, trees are perfectly connected
But you could make something more random, like a group of tree then in the middle a hole =)

Good job with the trees, you connected them all properly.

As for the path:

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The blue tile I circled is supposed to be repeated where the red lines are pointing.

i see, always those damn path errors, so small yet so stupid...thanks crono

Anytime. Feel free to post just about any question regarding levels, we're here to help LATs. :)

sure im taking pieces at the time, to get femiliar with some tuts and stuff...how tree connecting goes, i kinda understand now..tile errors in pathing is my next object.

I'd recommend you play around with the automated path generator at first! It's fun ;)

automated path generator? wuts that

Select the sand path (highlighted in image) then control with your mouse. Left click to start!

No, do NOT play around with that. You will develop bad habits, that thing is at very best used to give you a mental picture of how a path may look in big open areas.

The paths that come from it are always ugly.

I use it as a guide to where the path should be on levels, I then edit it manually to make it look better!1 :D It's fun to play with :p

To get some more predefined path generators check out these links!

http://forums.graal2001.com/forums/s...Path+Generator
(Glory's - attachments are on the second page)
http://forums.graal2001.com/forums/s...Path+Generator
(Soul-Blade's)
http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...highlight=dirt
(Dusty's)

Path generator's are ok as long as you edit it heavily...

If you leave all those red stones in a path I'll beat you with a trout.

Personally I've never used a tile generator but I can see the desire to.

O rlly....idk I had more fun in making paths from scratch, but I guess for making a OW or something that would be a nice tool to help use time up better...if you edited it.

i guess ill stick with crono's advice to just manually practice it. I mean that is the way to learn it best, I believe path generators are good to see how it should actually work, but i believe when I make it from scratch i would be more satisfied as i could actually say that I made it hand-made.

anyway thanks for the advice WandaMan