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[Neppy]

Palette: Skyloft (apparently, though it looks nothing like that... :/)

Well, I'll let you know what I think of this screen, without considering what it is based on. This does look like a very solid screen. I think the palette is great, especially the blue. I like the screen design, and it does remind me of the Bridge in Skyloft, at least a little bit. It's pretty hard to capture the same look and feel of a 3D Zelda game, especially one that is so new.

Just fooling around and trying to get the hang of these tiles. What do you guys think?

I think this looks pretty dang good. It has a somewhat dark look to it though, but if that is what you were going for, then that's a good thing. If not, I'd swap the palette out for something more bright.

[Moo2wo]

Palette: Skyloft (apparently, though it looks nothing like that... :/)

I'll try to critique it as best I can, but I'm not sure if there's a good way.

First off, there's too little difference between all the greens on the trees. You need to make the dark colors darker, and the light colors lighter. The water also suffers from this problem, but I'll get to that in a second. You should probably make the grass detail "pop" a little more, too.

I'm not a fan of the reds. I can not see those ever being used in Skyward Sword. A very pastel-y orange I could see being used, however. It's just hard getting it to blend in with the surrounding environment.

To be frank, the blues are just too dull. You need something far stronger. The grays should also be...well, more gray.

This is what I would have done, going off that critique:



For most, if not all the colors, I looked up an image of pastels and used the colors from those and then modified them to work in the palette, since Skyward Sword has that nice "painted" look. My grass detail colors should probably "pop" more, like I mentioned earlier, but oh well. Sorry if I sounded mean/rude, just trying to be helpful.

[Marco]

Palette: Skyloft (apparently, though it looks nothing like that... :/)

Beautiful. I do not agree though, with the primary ground color, it seems slightly too decayed to support the surrounding greens.



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[Jared]

For most, if not all the colors, I looked up an image of pastels and used the colors from those and then modified them to work in the palette, since Skyward Sword has that nice "painted" look. My grass detail colors should probably "pop" more, like I mentioned earlier, but oh well. Sorry if I sounded mean/rude, just trying to be helpful.

Gah, this is amazing. Any way you can transport it into DoR? With the mountains being the normal browns? It's so beautiful! Reminds me of Robin's new The Hylian Phoenix.

Edited by Jared, 29 November 2011 - 05:54 PM.

[Moosh]

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I'll give credit where it's due and say I can tell what it is this time. I can't help but feel that making custom tiles isn't your forte as much as importing and recoloring Metroid tiles...they just look too flat...

Edited by Pokemonmaster64, 29 November 2011 - 07:11 PM.

[trudatman]

embracing my Lord Ike biases, I must conclude that flat is an accurate description of Furion style. depth and punch lack. they are usually still good and are rarely terrible, although some are so confusing as to approach random and those screens earn five huhs and a whaa from my brain and may thus be classified as terrible. short: decent, flat.

[Moonbread]

Sheik Yoshimi (and whoever else may be involved), I sincerely hope that you finish that tileset. I love everything you're doing with it, and plus BS mountains > the rest. I'll go ahead and say to use Moo's palette instead (or at least something close), but it's still looking mighty damn fine.

[SpikeReynolds]

I'll try to critique it as best I can, but I'm not sure if there's a good way.

First off, there's too little difference between all the greens on the trees. You need to make the dark colors darker, and the light colors lighter. The water also suffers from this problem, but I'll get to that in a second. You should probably make the grass detail "pop" a little more, too.

I'm not a fan of the reds. I can not see those ever being used in Skyward Sword. A very pastel-y orange I could see being used, however. It's just hard getting it to blend in with the surrounding environment.

To be frank, the blues are just too dull. You need something far stronger. The grays should also be...well, more gray.

This is what I would have done, going off that critique:



For most, if not all the colors, I looked up an image of pastels and used the colors from those and then modified them to work in the palette, since Skyward Sword has that nice "painted" look. My grass detail colors should probably "pop" more, like I mentioned earlier, but oh well. Sorry if I sounded mean/rude, just trying to be helpful.

Would it be wrong that I actually like Yoshimi's palette better? I don't really feel that either capture the Skyward Sword aesthetic (Then again, I don't really think the MC trees do much to help that. Maybe try getting some trees that sort of look more like, well, 'painted trees,' I guess.)

Honestly, I don't really feel that the MC graphics, save for the water, really help the 'painted' vibe. Everything is too rigid and blocky; they just don't feel organic.

[Sheik]

You guys don't quite understand me. Not the tileset is ment to look like SS, the palettes are. The name of the palette is "Skyloft", though I might've named it "Smurfland" instead if I felt like that.
Thanks for the support, though, everybody, it's much appreciated.

I'll try to critique it as best I can, but I'm not sure if there's a good way.

First off, there's too little difference between all the greens on the trees. You need to make the dark colors darker, and the light colors lighter. The water also suffers from this problem, but I'll get to that in a second. You should probably make the grass detail "pop" a little more, too.

I'm not a fan of the reds. I can not see those ever being used in Skyward Sword. A very pastel-y orange I could see being used, however. It's just hard getting it to blend in with the surrounding environment.

To be frank, the blues are just too dull. You need something far stronger. The grays should also be...well, more gray.

This is what I would have done, going off that critique:



For most, if not all the colors, I looked up an image of pastels and used the colors from those and then modified them to work in the palette, since Skyward Sword has that nice "painted" look. My grass detail colors should probably "pop" more, like I mentioned earlier, but oh well. Sorry if I sounded mean/rude, just trying to be helpful.

Thank you for your critique, Moo2Woo. You make some valid points and I will take them into consideration in the future. While your palette looks wonderful, I would actually like to use colours that are slightly lower in contrasted and look somewhat muted rather, as I believe that this is much easier on the eyes and capture the sort of atmosphere I try to evoke better than the "comic colours". However, your palette looks good on the tiles and certainly is an alternative to consider. It's better than mine, I guess. Also, you're not sounding rude at all. I am starvig for really useful critques and you've just given one. Thank you!

[Schwa]

Custom scripted bombs.

You may be thinking, "WHYYYYY."

Well, BECAAAAUSE.

[blue_knight]

Custom scripted bombs.

You may be thinking, "WHYYYYY."

Well, BECAAAAUSE.

Interesting, what changes did you make? I guess I won't be the only one with scripted bombs now (though our behaviors are different obviously).

[Xenix]

Here's a new set of screenshots with a WIP palette I came up with myself.

[Schwa]

Interesting, what changes did you make? I guess I won't be the only one with scripted bombs now (though our behaviors are different obviously).

To be honest I really didn't want to script the bombs. But I had to. The regular non-scripted Bomb's physics clashed with the physics I've already laid down, and wouldn't work very well. I guess the more I script, the more I have to script... (Wait a minute, you would know this better than I would! )

This bomb is almost no different than the original, other than these two points: the damage dealt is quite random (anywhere from 4x to 8x the Level 1 Sword power with each blast), and only the initial explosion will deal a hit, bumping into it will not.

[Dawnlight]

Here's a new set of screenshots with a WIP palette I came up with myself.

Those look excellent overall, but the tree alignment in the 1st screen looks too perfect. Try spreading them out more.

[Sheik]

This doesn't look like quite the big update (though it was a b**** to get it looking right...) and I have yet to rip in some more tiles, but here's a base of what BSMC caves will pretty much look like:

Big credit to Evile, I'm going to use his MZC dungeon palettes (at least for caves, not sure about actual dungeons yet; also I have to edit his for a few things I'd like to do with caves but it's a great base). This is one of his palettes.

Good screens around in OQST these days! Love your work Schwa and Sepulcher.