Skylines or cityscapes
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Topic: Skylines or cityscapes
Posted By: botodev
Subject: Skylines or cityscapes
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 11:36pm
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In most pixel art, A backdrop that depicts a city is usually layered with a darker color in front and maybe 2 layers of lighter color buildings in the back.
Are there any good rules to follow when designing this? I mean it seems simple enough, but are there guidelines you could follow? Choosing colors and so on.
If you are reading this and you did a backdrop like that, could you please link it in this thread? Maybe give a quick rundown on how to composite something like that? Or a link to another thread or tutorial if you know one.
Also, are there considerations if you want to make it a parallax scrolled background?
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 26 January 2011 at 2:18pm
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color-wise just use the rules for atmospheric perspective: stuff farther back is going to be lighter and less saturated. canabalt comes to mind as an example:  I'm sure there's tons of other stuff, just gotta dig it out of the gallery. here are a few I found:      |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 26 January 2011 at 6:32pm
jal's levels come to mind too    I think that typically, when it comes to games, the speed of the parallax is defined by the programming. oh, one more that's a bit different:  |
Posted By: botodev
Date Posted: 26 January 2011 at 9:17pm
| Ok, that gives me some good examples to work with. Thank you. |