Isometric City Mosaic *Complete*
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Printed Date: 08 September 2025 at 1:25pm
Topic: Isometric City Mosaic *Complete*
Posted By: pixelblink
Subject: Isometric City Mosaic *Complete*
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 3:32pm
Simple enough: everybody creates a piece to the mosaic by building a 50x50 square that will attach onto an existing peice. Keep everything in proper aspect ratio. Nobody will create a piece that won't attach properly. Anyone who updates the peice will include the rest of the mosaic in a single file.
Here is my piece to start it off:

Questions?
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 3:42pm
Here we go...#2

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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 4:07pm
cute.

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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 4:10pm
http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/9391/city1x1129xq.png -
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 4:12pm
Aww garage inc I had just uploaded the entire thing before you beat me to it :P
This is gonna be cool in the end, granted that nobody f**ks it up.
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 4:14pm
Ya, I agree. If anyone mess's it up, I will hunt you down.
Now, lets do this collab.
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 4:51pm
Originally posted by Garage Inc.
http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/9391/city1x1129xq.png -
I claim the top right.
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Posted By: Shadowgamers
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 4:52pm
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 4:53pm
Originally posted by pixelblinkI claim the top right.
Then hurry up so I can make mine =)
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 5:09pm
thought this'd make it easier to claim areas... just claim it by writing your name on the area you want to do. Just don't take more than a day on making the square okay? All agreed? And keep updating the current image with all the names that have claimed so we don't do over someone elses by mistake

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Posted By: UnknownPixels
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 5:15pm
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Posted By: ..::Naso::..
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 6:05pm
Is that street raised up in square 5,4 and 5,5???
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 7:02pm

Everything looked to "clean" so I destroyed part of the building... 
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 7:03pm
Originally posted by ..::Naso::..
Is that street raised up in square 5,4 and 5,5???
Well I'm guessing it's just a dirt road in between the two roads. I was
actually intending it to be another extension of the brown building,
but whatever.
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 7:04pm
Originally posted by Ensellitis
Everything looked to "clean" so I destroyed part of the building...
It looks very neatly destroyed 
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 7:10pm
sorry Ryan, I guess I didn't clue in... lol
So far so good though. I'm glad we have some iso enthusiasts here to make it happen. Thanks guys n gals
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 9:43pm
I think there should be a rule where you have to use a square that's touching the other squares...
because otherwise, say, if you made one out to the side, someone else would have to make those sqaures meet.
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 10:29pm
ryan, I think thats kind of a given and most of the people around here do that anyways.
-edit-

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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 10:36pm
I'm just wondering.
Because I see some not touching ones that are claimed by some people.
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 10:57pm
Hey might just be waiting for someone to do the pieces around them.
Heres another piece.

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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 11:16pm
Nice addition, Garage. I was halfway through doing the one to the right of it when I saw yours. Thankfully I wasn't done... lol. Should be claiming my own spots.

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Posted By: UnknownPixels
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 5:50am

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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 8:50am
Jus so I don't have to save another file onto my computer that doesn't need to be there, I claim the one above my last one and beside the newest one.(UnknownPixels)
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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 9:04am
I claim 6 horizontal : 3 vertical
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 12:58pm
I gotta admit when I first saw this I didn't understand how the hell this would work.
This is really looking great guys.
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 1:01pm

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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 1:02pm
thanx Sedge. This stuff used to go on at deviantart all the time back in tha days yo. I think we should keep expanding this until it's big enough for a wallpaper and then put it in the downloadables section on the main site. Whatcha guys think?
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 1:36pm
That sounds awsome Blink. I'm working on the one I claimed right now.
-edit-
Here we go.

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Posted By: kiwidesign
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 1:57pm
claimed! 

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Posted By: Sibix
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 2:05pm
ill claim one tomorrow :D
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 3:26pm
I thought the gated area was gonna be a prison facility... not a farm O_o
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Posted By: UnknownPixels
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 3:59pm
Welcome to collab, please wipe your feet.
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 11 July 2005 at 3:59pm
Originally posted by ryan-gfx
I thought the gated area was gonna be a prison facility... not a farm O_o
some prisons have gardens/farms. I think that's what's cool about doing this kind of thing - you never know what it'll turn out as. I hope we do more of these in the future once this is finished. I think it's also a good training tool for newcomer iso pixellists. They can build off others to learn how the lines go, etc
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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 12:17am
Here be my piece

If you see any problems with it I'll fix it.
Please, make a backstreet with a dumpster behind the long house with the red roof.
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Posted By: Demon
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 12:44am

hehe, added something. :D
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 10:28am
I got the one next to the one I added and above demons.
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 12:08pm
I claim the one right below the tree.. =)
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 12:35pm
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Posted By: Tikiman1488
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 1:31pm
I couldn't figure out what the guys on the roof were doing, so i assumed that they were up to no good. therefore I have some green berets landing on the roof via helicopter. I didn't draw it because I couldn't get it to look right... the person who draws one above will have to make something.

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Posted By: necromancer928
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 1:40pm
yay

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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 1:45pm
Here we go.

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Posted By: necromancer928
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 1:50pm
you might want to edit that.....
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 2:04pm
Ok, I'll edit this post with it.

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Posted By: kiwidesign
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 4:50pm
I changed my claim, sorry... I'm doing it 

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Posted By: emiko
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 5:51pm
I'll be taking kiwi's old spot...:
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Posted By: kiwidesign
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 6:50pm
here I am! 

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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 12 July 2005 at 11:57pm
Hahaha Tikiman, that's funny 
I might draw the helicopter.
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 12:52am

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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 1:02am
pixelblink added onto a piece that I did, I feel honored.
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Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 1:22am
What shall we do if it exceeds 256 colours? Would we have to keep saving it as a png?
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 1:31am
Ensellitis: OH MY GOSH I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN.
Pixelblink brushed my shoulder when he walked past me the other day...
I felt like melting!
edit--- lawrence, why didn't you add anything?
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Posted By: 1ucas
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 1:39am
Now seriously. How can you guys reach 179 colors with this? You're pixel artists for crying out loud, limit the damn pallete and show some real skill. Try recycling eachother's colors instead of picking a whole new pallete. :|
There's an average of 9.42 colors per square. I think that's really sh*tty.
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 1:43am
^true dat. It looks like 60 colors at the most and you guys bloated up
the palatte. by using transparency and making new colors here and
there. Like 1ucas said, RECYCLE.
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Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 5:47am
ryan-gfx, I thought I could reserve a square, but it's alright, I've done it now:
I added a helicopter on the roof, and I didn't add any new colours:

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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 6:12am
I call the square above the green berrets.
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Posted By: emiko
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 7:41am
Roof-top oasis? XD;
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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 8:00am
Damn, the bridge and the chopper took forever.
But it turned out ok.

I don't envy the guy that will have to continue the bridge and connect it with the prison square..
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Posted By: Tikiman1488
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 9:18am
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 10:43am
Originally posted by ryan-gfx
^true dat. It looks like 60 colors at the most and you guys bloated up the palatte. by using transparency and making new colors here and there. Like 1ucas said, RECYCLE.
I'll try and edit some of this later today to lessen the pallette... we'll work this one out somehow dude. Unless you;d like to clean it up a bit? Anyone have a problem with that?
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 11:16am
This project is sure cooking along quickly. That 'claimed by' thing is a really good idea.
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Posted By: Rifts
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 11:45am
mayb the "fenced off area" insnt fenced off mayb the buildings and
helecopted and stuff is inside trhe fenced off area :)
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 4:28pm
Ok here you go,

I eliminated about 50 colors... It is now down to an even 128 colors... Now people, recycle!!! 
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Posted By: kiwidesign
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 6:30pm
don't you think white is an important color? 
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 6:30pm
It's highly overrated, like black. =P
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Posted By: kiwidesign
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 6:32pm
but... why only 128 and not 256 max? I'm slooow 
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 6:34pm
I just took it down to 128, but I don't think there is a max, well 256 is, you know what I mean. =)
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Posted By: kiwidesign
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 6:38pm
added white and shooted a red only present in my square...

don't you think that some details lost a lot with color-down?
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Posted By: kiwidesign
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 6:40pm
(now going to sleep... here is 3:40 am )
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 8:05pm
Kiwi- I dont get it. Whatd you add?
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 9:51pm

I dunno gang... I tried to clean it up as much as possible and got it down to 123 colours. I think if we keep it "clean" there'll be less trouble in the future. I admit it's my fault because I was the one who started "dirtying" it up at the beginning. What do you guys think?
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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 12:13am
Looks ok like that, but I notice that in Kiwi's last post there is a
problem with the long house with the red roof -- check out the right
wall...
But in pixelblink's last it's fine.... But hey, wait, all the dirt and grass lost their textures. Crap. I'm not kidding.
Anyone wanna fix that?
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 12:16am
I fixed that wall up on the house and some other minor things. I also removed the dirtyness as i said... the textures that aren't necessarily needed so as to keep the pallette down to a minimum
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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 12:20am
I'm not totally convinced we don't need those textures, man.
But ok, if you wanna keep the colour count, for dirt we could use the
shades that are on the brown crate right by the green building and/or
the palm.
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Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 12:25am
Yeah, I never noticed that there was texture on the grass before, but the dirt could use some texture.
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 2:22am
Pixelblink: You didn't need to get rid of the texture on the road or
the dirt because of color count. You do know all that texture is
contained in 3 or less colors. The onlt thing that was driving up the
color count was all the details on the green building, and all the
transparency on the bricks in the grey building to the right.
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 8:28am

It's saved as PNG now, but when I come back to edit w/ my tile, it'll be GIF so no worries
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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 8:40am
yeah, leel I was just saying that this would be a tough square
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 10:22am
one thing i noticed about the broken green building - if you follow the bottom left bit (behind the crate where it joins the floor) and go right to the corner, the right hand side goes further down. Isnt it obvious that there are 3 extra layers of window?? how is this possible it will be in the road!
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Posted By: Dutrho
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 10:35am
perhaps the building is sitting on a hill that dips towards the right?
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 11:47am
Monstara has a point. You guys keep making the green building taller
and taller and it's pysically impossible. it would've hit the ground.
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Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 12:43pm
Dutrho has a good point though, I like his idea. Stuff like this is what makes these things fun.
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 2:43pm
doesn't look like a hill. Looks more like a steep evelation drop.
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 2:49pm
It's an ok idea, but it's physically impossible.
The street going to the bridge is level with the rest of the roads. The bridge goes up a little. The small house next to the road is level with all the other buildings. The mud bank behind the house is level with the house. The mud back goes behind the green building. The road in front of the house is level with the rest of the roads. That road is going to the side or back of the green building. Everything else is level, so it's almost impossible for that to work. If a few people can fill in those blank squares to the right and bottum right and make it work, ok, but from what I can see, it's almost impossible.
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Posted By: necromancer928
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 3:07pm
lets make it an optical illusion isometric city mosaic.....
well anyways....

i dont know if u can see it but theres a guy on the balcony with a
rope. you guys can use ur imagination and make up whats on the other
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Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 3:14pm
Okay I'll have a go on the square bellow the palm tree, I've thought of a way to fix it.
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Posted By: Rifts
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 3:15pm
heh heh i have a gr8 idea for that rope :D
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Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 4:23pm
What I've done is made a slope going down, and I think it's wise
that whoever does the squares the the top-right of mine to try and also
make a slope up there, so that the green building is sort-of embedded
into the ground if you get what I mean. That way, the area with the mud
is left unaffected. BTW, I know the exact dimension of the green
building are slightly off, but it's basically the best way I reckon.
Also, sorry emiko, but you roof-top oasis is now a floating magic carpet-oasis.

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Posted By: necromancer928
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 4:25pm
lawrence, your a genius
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 5:31pm
Lawrence: very slick, man. Question: Why is there a floating oasis in the middle of town?
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Posted By: necromancer928
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 6:31pm
it would be way better if we just erased that
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 6:44pm
You can't erase it, then it kind of ruins the project... You gotta work with what you got...
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Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 7:19pm
Whoever does the square to the left of my last one could attach it to a building, as a sign.
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 14 July 2005 at 7:53pm
another genious idea.
I agree with Ensellitis, we shouldn't erase stuff. This thing is about working with other people's ideas, not just one person's opinion of what is right. Which brings me to my main point - work with other people's ideas people! lol, what I mean is... did you notice that the sidewalks are different by different buildings? and some part of the road have the white line (don't know what it's called in english) on the right, while a few "feet/meters" away, around the corner there's no line. and the thick line on the intersections where cars are supposed to stop is white in one square and yellow in the other. And the 2 pieces of dirt road are different colors...
Also, the big challenge in my square is that the roof in front has a slope of 2/1(rise/ run), while in the back of the building it's 1/1 and if I complete it to fit the square next to mine it looks weird! So people, study and keep in mind the ongoing details (meaning sidewalks, grass, road and their colors) when adding your piece.
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 15 July 2005 at 12:17am
not to mention physical possibilites
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 15 July 2005 at 12:44am
those of you who have claimed spaces and haven't finished them by tomorrow when I check this again will lose their saved claims. Don't hold everybody up please
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 15 July 2005 at 7:56am
Pixelblink, in your version the colors are all darker... I tried adding in the 2 new squares since I started mine, but the colors of the road and buildings of the image you posted don't match the colors on my image. I traced the change to Necromancer; I'm not playing the blame game, just trying to figure out whether I should change the colors to match yours (since it's the most recent one) or keep the colors I started with.
BTW, this is my piece. I'll add the 2 new tiles as soon as I hear from you about the colors...
All colors were recycled.
EDIT: oh shoot, I sort of broke the rule a little without realizing it..fixing now
That's better. I edited the fence in someone else's square and then went on rambling about how we can't change others' stuff lol. Anyway, that fence was a lot of trouble, but I think I figured it out. The river took a turn towards northeast right after the bridge and the fence is in a perfectly straight vertical line for a little and then it "turns" to enclose the little piece of land. Would be nice to see the Jail lake and the river connected... wonder if the person who made the river thought of that, cause I sure didn't lol
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Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 15 July 2005 at 8:37am
haha leel congrats for the tile. However, the two sides of the bridge
are not level with one another. Could be my fault, too. Not sure.
btw I also had problems with the colors, and once adjusted my piece to
the latest template by tweaking the brightness/contrast/color levels.
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 15 July 2005 at 8:59am
the two sides of the bridge are not level with one another
Sides meaning the sidewalks? or the bridge on either side of the river. The sidewalks (stairs) are actually level but because the road was too steep I had to cut part of the sidewalk on one side to make the rise smoother. However the other side of the stais still reaches the ground at the same angle as the stairs on the right. You just can't see it because the road and the stairs are at different angle and on the right side the stairs cover up the road while on the left side the road covers up the stairs... I can't explain it very well, but it all makes sense in my head.
If you meant that the rise over the river on each side it uneven, then you're right. But I thought that maybe it would pass as an illusion that the side I did is closer... therefore bigger and stuff.... I couldn't find a way to make the rise even on both sides. I had to continure the road and the river and the bridge and they all met at a point which looks a bit wrong.... yeah the roof is screwed up too, as I said a few posts ago, but I guess it could work if the roof was angled in the bank...for some reason lol. Well I did my best, hope it works well.
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 15 July 2005 at 10:15am
Leel: I just compared yours to the last 4 or so versions and there seems to be nothing wrong with it.
Also, Unknown Pixels, Rifts, and Demon all lose their claims (as shown in this update). You guys take WAY too long to fill the spots. You should have an idea in mind before you claim the area, then claim it, then build it right away. Otherwise you're just being a hog

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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 15 July 2005 at 11:34am
I hope nobodys minds, but I took it upon myself to make the city look more, realistic.

I added white lines down all the sides of the roads and I changed the yellow thing on the road and made it white.
I hope no one minds, but I think it looks alot better.
(Just so everyone knows, I didn't add a square.)
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