RPG MAKER MV: How to map Exterior Houses

[@douglascosta281]

Whenever i search for mapping, i find only parallax things... Aways wanted RTP tips and tricks. Thank you dude, u are doing a great job here!

[@LvLUpDesign]

Glad I could help! I personally love Parallax mapping but there is no way to really grasp parallax without even knowing the basic system. I see a lot of maps out there with RTP that have weird perspectives and odd practices so I want to try and help out for those people who don' parallax map as well!

[@brittanyg7700]

Wow, that was so helpful. I always thought my houses looked too big, but I wasn't sure how to fix it. This was great. I'd love to see more mapping videos

[@LvLUpDesign]

You are so welcome! More mapping videos will be on the way. They are my speciality.

[@SylkaChan]

Thanks for the right click and shift tutorial, I need that to have more layers while using autotiles.

[@LvLUpDesign]

You know what would be really cool? If you scrolled back up and hit that like button! It really helps youtube get my videos out to more people. And if you really love what I do then consider subscribing as well!

[@NoahPopejoy]

As someone who's putting a lot of work into making a full indie JRPG that I plan on releasing on Steam, this was super helpful! Thanks!

[@blindedjourneyman]

gluck :)

[@zawash]

what is it about?

[@NoahPopejoy]

@@zawash Pretty much about a girl going on a quest to retrieve these powerful cards to become a mage. However her goal shifts when the main villain of the game threatens the world. That’s when she decides to use the cards to try and defeat the villain. Stock plot, but I don’t wanna get too ambitious for my first video game. 🤣

[@zawash]

​@@NoahPopejoy lol I feel that, for my game i'm also doing a stock plot; a young man gathers a group of 3 other adventurers to defeat a genocidal wizard maniac. although, I think that since it's hard for us indie devs to really put our name out there when it comes to games (partially because there's millions of us), i wanna make a game that really shines when it comes to it's themes. sometimes even the "stockiest" of game-play and the "stockiest" of narratives can bring the strongest of themes, ones that are universal and open discussion in a powerful way.

[@NoahPopejoy]

@@zawash Oh yeah. Stock plots still have potential. And I do touch on certain themes. The main one being vengeance. But that comes in near the end. I mostly fill it with comedy and well known anime voice actors like Lizzie Freeman and Sean Chiplock. 😅

[@VitaminJ7734]

This video is insanely helpful for those with little artistic talents such as myself. I greatly appreciate it

[@shane3217]

Definitely my favourite rpg maker yt channel

[@neppingnep1334]

Thank you so much, I'm terrible with mapping and creating house and building designs this helped a lot.

[@LvLUpDesign]

Glad it helped :)

[@Zaykel]

I know this video is somewhat old, but you really give a lot of nice ideas and tips. Thanks, you're really helpful.

[@banyalaplace]

What a cozy little town! I like it!

[@LvLUpDesign]

And that's without a river, cliffs and roaming NPC's. Maybe that will be one of my videos in the near future :P

[@volourn9764]

I love he tree trick behind the house. I am shocked I never realized that. Another thing i can use to make things look 'different'.

[@beewo6307]

Good things I had never really thought too deep about.

[@LvLUpDesign]

Glad it helped!!

[@nolanxart]

I'm using the Nintendo Switch version of RPG Maker MV, and your tutorials are still quite helpful. Thank you.

[@Nobody_dw]

This video is so helpful!! It's very well explained, easy to follow and you don't just go 'dont use the tiles provided by the engine' (Which I know we're supposed to do cause everyone uses them and yadda yadda, but you showed us we can still do very cool non-rectangular houses with the tools we're given and I think that's neat)

[@bartlomiejlakomski3598]

Before watching these videos, all of my houses looked the same. Thank you for your help!

[@fard4046]

Thanks for the tips! I've been stuck on trying to make good house designs for my game and this helped a lot

[@manika1290]

Your channel really deserve more views.

[@LvLUpDesign]

Thanks for the support. I'm definitely working on that one!

[@JolanXBL]

Your house details look great! The reason houses tend to be 2 tiles high is because the character sprites are 48 pixels tall, but map tiles are 32^2. You're making the house exteriors shorter than a bookshelf. As for shadows, if you look at a tree, it goes left-right. If your house is 2 tiles deep, then so should be the shadow. You can really sell depth in a 2D game with just the lighting.

[@jasonbinney2979]

This was very helpful as a brand new user thank you!

[@dracomante]

Just here again to implement the great house in my project ^^ really glad u make such good content, thank you 😊

[@ahmedtaraque]

Nice tutorial. I'm looking forward to see more tutorial like this. Specially some city building tips. I suck at making a good modern city map.

[@LvLUpDesign]

That is a tough one. One of the main problems is the Modern RTP leaves a lot to be desired. It looks more 'Grunge' than it does modern city. I'll have a play around and see what I can do.

[@DuLuanVien4.0]

a really nutritious and relaxing job. I like this

[@carlmarajay6019]

Your video tutorials are very good. Keep them coming. New subscriber here. 👍

[@LvLUpDesign]

Thanks for the sub, and welcome to the Channel!!

[@MissyMona]

Wow this is really awesome

[@chains4change821]

Well thank you so much I literally just had my walls running across the entire map it looked terrible thank you

[@LvLUpDesign]

Awesome. Glad the video helped

[@KisukeGhoul]

Just found your channel haven't watched any videos yet but they seem extremely helpful will check them out later keep it up👍🏻

[@LvLUpDesign]

Welcome aboard!

[@mnmrocks2756]

Thanks a bunch!

[@cheeseam48]

my game is a adventure game(still in development :)) and this looks helpful ty! you earn a sub!

[@ashtonruby7387]

Great tips! That's funny, I like adding barrels too. It must be such an rpg staple that it is just ingrained in us to have them all over. I am trying to make a small house/hut that's in the woods with tons of forest surrounding it but having trouble making it look good. I started by just filling the map with the close tree tiles then removing them to add a path and a house but trying to clean up the removed parts didn't look great. Any tips would be appreciated. Keep up the great videos! Very helpful!

[@LvLUpDesign]

How I like to do things like forests is start with a green grass. Then go over the map randomly with the long grass tile making patches here and there. Then I grab the weed tiles, those small grass tiles, and I'll get the first weed tile and randomly scatter it around the map. Then I'll get the second weed tile and randomly scatter it around the map and do it for all of the weed tiles and flower tiles. After that I block the edges of the map out with either trees, cliffs or rivers and then I randomly scatter trees within the inside of the map until it's full. Then I do what you've done and draw a path in the middle, build the house and clear any trees as needed. The same as if someone had just come through to a natural area and cut down the trees to build a house.

[@PFGFrankly]

that last house i would add a balcony on the left roof, seem like a perfect used area tho its small, have small funiture since the player not ment to be there or add like a bigger area like a sub map if the player go there

[@bitpokit]

Awesome work! Thank you for sharing! 🙂

[@LvLUpDesign]

Thanks for watching!

[@samsomolu9875]

i really appreciate man

[@jejejeje4698]

Hi! Really like your mapping videos! I always make two tiles high buildings. I like to make "big" houses with larger maps, with garden and stuff, to make the map life like. Do you got any tips to make my maps appear big ingame and not full of roofs. Hope you know what I mean. Keep up the good work.

[@LvLUpDesign]

Glad you like them! In terms of making the map feel big, do you mean like, the feeling of a big city without the map being just roofs, or just a big life like house?

[@jejejeje4698]

LvL Up Design a big city without the map being just roofs.

[@LvLUpDesign]

That's a tough one because of the perspective of the graphics, but one thing you can do is break your city map up into different maps and have a horse and cart or a channel boat transport you around the city.

[@MerinLightbringer]

i really appreciate your tutorial, just one thing. I noticed that the specific roof doesnt cast a shadow... any idea on how to change that?

[@Undersans]

next to the +zoom and fill buttons theres a pen over a black square where you can draw shadows manually

[@MerinLightbringer]

@@Undersans thank u very much!!!

[@artmosphereID]

thank you mannn

[@92SamSilver]

i have a question: if i want to make a cutscene where an image(CG) is shown for a few seconds, along with character lines, and then change again to the character sprites; how do i plan that? what do i need to do to make that happen? Do i strickly need plugins or isnt needed?

[@Real_Moon-Moon]

One of my biggest pet peeves is that fences don't auto connect to anything other than fences. Would this shift trick work for that too?

[@furryfr0g]

I don't see the chimney tile. Are you using MV and MZ tiles..? Plz help. ^__^

[@fieryicenightcore1995]

Need more subs ngl

[@LvLUpDesign]

Cheers, I've stepped up my content game over the past two months and it's net about 60 Subs. Still got a whole list of videos I still need to record too.

[@ЛеонидМальцев-с3п]

Привет. У меня RPG Maker MV как-то не корректор работает. Например окно "новое событие" раскрывается больше чем рабочий стол. Не видно кнопки "Ок" и "Применить". Приходится закрывать кнопкой на клавиатуре "Esc"

[@beautifullybroken2593]

So it may sound odd but my 10yo and i are using rpg maker to build a game together, but I've never done this before so this may be a dumb question but what are the numbers for in the map(the numbers after the tilesets) and how do you use them?

[@LvLUpDesign]

Thanks for the Question. Those are called region ID. You can use them to check if specific events are in those regions, and some plugins use regions to test for other things. It's a bit more advanced but if you search for rpg maker region ID videos on youtube, your bound to find one.

[@ZachariBarnes]

How do you design houses if the character is 2 blocks tall?

[@zachfutv9986]

Sometimes I load a pre made map and copy an paste the houses from there cuz they are pretty good.

[@LvLUpDesign]

Yeah the premades do have some great examples.

[@ljtheone]

you don't mind if i take these right?

[@TheCyclicGamer]

Are you sure those proportions are correct? Because if you're just going by the height of the character sprites, then that means for the first house, the roof is almost touching the character's head. Like they wouldn't be able to jump in it without smacking their head on the ceiling. How do you account for stairs, walls, and multiple rooms inside the structures themselves? Wouldn't this create a TARDIS effect, where the interior is bigger than the exterior?

[@LvLUpDesign]

Pretty much yes, this creates the Tardis effect. An important element of GD is suspended disbelief where as a player "Generally," is not going to think of the specifics of interior and exterior tile heights and how it translates. You are free to design houses however you wish but the problem with the tile map is if you make the house 2 tiles high, then you make it so that the interior is twice the height of the player, which is a bit weird to look at. The best way around it is to learn parallax mapping and create heights at 1.5 player height. But really, you don't need to worry too much about the tardis effect. Look at many other pixel art games, Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Golden Sun. All of them have this Tardis effect.

[@TheCyclicGamer]

@@LvLUpDesign Ok, thank you. I ain't doing parallax mapping though, too time consuming for what I'm going with.

[@TheCyclicGamer]

@@LvLUpDesign What about signs then? Cause a lot of the buildings in my game have signs on them, specifically above the door, and yes, they're the RTP signs.

[@PFGFrankly]

i wish rpg maker xp have this tile set. loads of autotiles are great. there a reason why i only used xp

[@tillow9511]

I would’ve added a flower or regular garden to the big house

[@anxieteadraws3538]

"Or a bottle of mead" wait a second.... SKYRIM

[@LvLUpDesign]

I used to be an adventurer like you.

[@anxieteadraws3538]

@@LvLUpDesign YEEEEESSSSSSSSS lol

[@davidoll9701]

I don't have any of those items on PS4

[@zachfutv9986]

The fourth house was really weird. Nether thought to make one like that.

[@LvLUpDesign]

You can find houses built like that. Maybe it's an Australian thing, but I see it all the time.

[@elmohead]

Tbh too many windows but otherwise good tutorial!

[@Edwardcitu_]

Like .

[@simbadas1234]

those houses all look really weird with the 1 tile = 1 floor design.

[@HumanAki]

Dang, the value in your videos....oof! Please let me know if you need help marketing/creating cash flow, I'd like to help.

[@LvLUpDesign]

Hey man, I might take you up on that, Cash flow is next to non-existant, and I'll be releasing a new product soon so marketing could help. Drop me a line at [e-mail]

[@HumanAki]

@@LvLUpDesign Sent. Email is titled "The "Marketing/Cash Flow" KZbin Comment Guy." Lol. Excited to hear from you, brother.

[@phacey4444]

argue all you want but, that house is not proportional. have you even seen how big house are, there not supposed to be comparable to people. and if the interior is at all possible with that exterior I wouldn't want to live in that house. as a general rule all thumb, make sure the interior fits inside the exterior(unless the house is supposed to be like the tardis).

[@ShaneCrawfordGreatness]

this is awesome dude!