How to Draw Simple Tilesets - So You Don't Have An Excuse Anymore

You know, I wonder why the object 11 of bank 11 doesn't work.

This was posted on the old forum and stuff: it doesn't work because the object isn't actually in the game, but its icon got left in the object bank. Or something.

...OK...

Woo hoo hoo hoo. Thanks for that. Now I can make my own tilesets.

As for magic pink, it's apparently not a "real color".   Interesting link.
http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/profs-probings/colour_spectrum_magenta_complimentary_bizarre

Really good

Problem: how to copy/paste in Paint.NET without blowing your wrist up?

Problem: how to copy/paste in Paint.NET without blowing your wrist up?

ctrl-x to cut, ctrl-c to copy, ctrl-v to paste.

This tutorial has really helped me and put me on track to make custom content! also pixel art in general.

Just found this really nice tutorial ! Thanks, it really learn lots of interesting things about pixel art and making custom content and it's also very easy to understand  !

Hi there
 
I am trying to follow this tutorial, but I have to trouble getting the transparency right in Gimp.
I have several layers in my Gimp project that I am combining into on png image. But somehow, when I try to apply my "art" in KS, what happens is that the transparent pixels in the tiles cover the background!

What am I doing wrong?
How should I make transparent pixels in Gimp, that also work in the KS editor?

Best,
troels

It sounds like you're saving the image without an alpha channel.  However, I'm confused by that since as far as I know GIMP will always save an image with an alpha channel as an image with an alpha channel, provided the format supports it (and PNG does, and if a format doesn't then it will tell you).

I guess another possibility is that you're merging layers with alpha channels into a layer with no alpha channel and not noticing.  Make sure all the layers have an alpha channel.

There is default empty tileset for Gimp users.
To see, what I changed without using Gimp, look in the preview.png
tileset.png file: I changed xcf to png, cause I can't upload xcf files. You can open it in the Gimp only

Wow! Thanks! That's a great tutorial.

Alright, now how do I upload it? I have made my tileset, and finally saved it as one of the preexisting tilesets, my question is, How do I upload a tileset without replacing the other tilesets?

and finally saved it as one of the preexisting tilesets

I sure hope you have a backup of that, as it may alter the look and or gameplay of other levels you play.
Anyways:

inside the folder for your level, create sub-folders for the custom art and music content and put them in there.
Knytt Stories\Worlds\Your Level\Tilesets\TilesetX.png
Knytt Stories\Worlds\Your Level\Music\SongX.ogg
Knytt Stories\Worlds\Your Level\Ambiance\AmbiX.ogg

...Where "Your Level" is the name of the autor of the level followed by a dash and the name of the level. And X is a number beteween 1 and 255.