SPIFFING UP MY MAP

I would recommend mixing up the grass tiles with the water tiles to make the boundaries of the pond not so square. I would also recommend using the tiles of the bunches of trees in between the trees you have now to do the same.


These two small changes make a significant difference in the visual appeal of the map. From there, you just start experimenting with mixing different types of grass/dirt and varying layouts of trees to make it more natural.


Then you just take some details you're already using elsewhere (such as flowers) to add more life to the area.

That shed is waaay too big and empty. Make use of the black space and make it much smaller. Like 75%

Getting better, but still way too much empty space. I'd halve that size you have now and then go even smaller

The shed is 3x3 on-map. Do you need it to be any bigger inside? Plus try to layer stuff. Boxes naturally overlap walls, papers can be partially hidden under something. Plus i would prefer to have the entrance at the bottom. This confuses hell out of me.

Oh - I assumed the shed interior was meant to be a different shed to the one shown on the exterior map.

If it's meant to be the same shed then:
a) as said above needs to be even smaller
b) Door should move from top to bottom AND
c) The interior need to change to stone (or exterior to wood, either way can't have the walls on the exterior map being stone blocks and then have wooden planks on the interior map)

Well, that's not how rugs work. Rugs are always rectangular but yours has some kinda weird edges around the door. If that's supposed to be a wall to wall carpet then you should use shift-mapping to get rid of the rug edges on the left and right sides... and also seriously consider why this garden shed has wall to wall carpeting. I think the wooden floor looked better before. The floor can be wood, just not the walls.

Also, because this is an interior map, be sure to get rid of the shadows on the left side. There's a ceiling, so those shadows make no sense. RPG Maker puts them in automatically, but you should use the shadow tool to get rid of them on indoor maps.

I know this is sentence going to annoy you, but it's also still too big.

Try something like this:



That looks a lot more like my dad's garden shed, in terms of using every inch of space. (Really it should have about 10x as much stuff in the same amount of space, with stuff hanging on the walls and so forth, but this is probably the best you can do the default tileset.)

I've always hated this method of doing the walls too, where the top of the wall and the front of the south wall are visible, but the default tileset is some hot garbage. The tileset doesn't actually include any kind of black background tile that works the way video game interiors actually work, so I understand why you're doing it this way.