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Title: Hand Drawn Tileset Sizes
Post by: Toxic Wolf on October 27, 2009, 23:23:38
I think I got this in the right board... <_<

Anyway I'm drawing a hand-drawn tileset to scan in and use, but I'm not sure how big to draw the squares on my paper. I need them big enough to draw detail, but resizing too much will cause the tileset to distort. What do you guys think?

Cheers,
TW

P.S: Does anyone know how many pixles to a cm/inch?

Title: Re: Hand Drawn Tileset Sizes
Post by: LPChip on October 27, 2009, 23:31:33
I'd say, draw them reasonably big and then scan them on in a low dpi setting and shrink the image in an image editor.

Note that your aim will be to get a tile of 24 pixels by 24 pixels. That's very small.

Perhaps it might be even better to use your drawings as a template and pixelpaint on top of your drawing once you scanned it in. That's the best way to ensure that you'll get optimal quality.
Title: Re: Hand Drawn Tileset Sizes
Post by: Toxic Wolf on October 27, 2009, 23:36:53
Thanks :)

I'll have a play around and see what looks best.
Title: Re: Hand Drawn Tileset Sizes
Post by: Shawnachu on October 27, 2009, 23:45:05
It's a resolution of 72 pixels per inch, so that's 1/3 of an inch or 0.846 centimeters for 24 pixels.
Title: Re: Hand Drawn Tileset Sizes
Post by: Razzorman on October 27, 2009, 23:51:12
It's a resolution of 72 pixels per inch, so that's 1/3 of an inch or 0.846 centimeters for 24 pixels.
Thats kind of unimportant here. As long as the hand drawn tiles are square they can be resized to fit a tileset after the paper has been scanned.

Also, the ppi of an image can be changed without actually affecting how it is displayed digitally, so you can have a tileset with 400 ppi if you feel like it, and it will still work.
Title: Re: Hand Drawn Tileset Sizes
Post by: Evil on October 28, 2009, 12:04:28
How do you render the lines out without taking part of it out?
Title: Re: Hand Drawn Tileset Sizes
Post by: Miss Paula on October 28, 2009, 15:09:39
Nifflas once posted a template...maybe he still has it somewhere or something?