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[MagitekElite]

That's awesome! Better than my treehouse T.T

I love tree houses as well

May I ask something though? How did you go about making that?

[Lunarea]

I have Photoshop, so it's all done in layers - though you can use any art program that supports layers.

I took the forest tree and cut off the shadow and the trunk. That became a base (layer 1) on which I layered the house.

I made the little house, which was a lot of erasing, copy-pasting and a few small retouches (layer 2). The door was made from one of the windows in the forest town set. The skylights are just tilted regular windows from the same set (just keep moving up sections of the pixels to match the angle).

I put the house on the topiary. It looked kind of flimsy, so I went back to layer 1 and added some volume (more copy pasting).

Then I went back to the house layer and added an elongated trunk from the big tree (layer 3). Besides copy-pasting, I smoothed out some pixels so it didn't look choppy. I added a ladder on top of that.

Lastly, I used the lasso tool which allows you to select various shapes and cut out some pieces of the topiary (layer 4). They went on a layer above the house, so they're obscuring the house and ladder a bit.

Hit save, uploaded and posted here.

[Jacen]

Wow these are simply fantastic and will get a lot of use in my game. They are easily up to a par with the standard of spriting in the RTP and really help to make RTP maps look a little bit different.

I look forward to seeing anything else you share

[MagitekElite]

Oh wow! Thank you for the explanation, Lunarea! :33

[Neva]

Do i have use a tileset merger to put these in my game or events?

[MagitekElite]

You could add it to the tileset. I don't think they will work properly with the bigger pieces. All you have to do is make sure the width is 256.

[Amy Pond]

Hey, I did exactly the same thing with the church roof a while back good to see someone else do the same, because I thought mine looked weird. It looks a lot nicer on yours.

These are pretty nice, always nice to see good addons like these.