IceKnight366

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Thanks for this!

I'm looking for the animal scenery set.  Ever seen the complete set of this?

ok, here a quick 'tutorial' of how I would do it. I'm using photoshop but this should work with any program that has the simplest transformation methods. Imagine I want to have this rug as full tile object.

 

 

I go into my program where I already cropped an RCT tile as background so I can easily oversee the dimensions and angles. Then I paste in the above image and resize it so that I can work with it.

 

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Then rotate the image 45° (or -45°)

 

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And now just shrink the image from the top until you reach a 2/1 pixel step ration on the borders, which of course is equal to a 50% height change

 

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And you got an acceptable sprite To get the right size you need to experiment with the starting size. My rectangular upright starting sprite (before the rotation) was 41 pixels and I almost fills out the tile. From this point on to get the other rotation angles of the sprite you can do the same steps but with -45° or just mirroring on the final sprite. Hope it helps!

Thanks for the detail!  I've been playing around with it on paint.net, but there are not comparable editing options (at least none that I've seen), to tell you when you're at 45°, nor the ability to shrink the image from the top only.  I was hoping not to have to purchase a picture editing program like Photoshop either .  Have you ever tried this on paint.net?

Yeah easiest is doing the skew yourself in a 2 by 1 pixel manner. But from what i understand you want to turn a flat picture into a surface? that would need more than just one skew

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm trying to do

The wall pieces are 32 pixels wide and skewed up 16 pixels, so the skew angle is arctan(16/32) = 26.57°.

Thanks CHE.  What program are you using for that?  I use paint.net but there's no arctan plugin it seems.

Thanks for your reply Liampie (btw, I'm digging your posts on github.  100% you know the community and I've agreed with everything you've requested on there!).  Do you remember 21-22 degrees of what?  Because it seems like it's not only skewed, but a certain perspective is added.