Attempting tile transitions. (Need advice)

[sickporsche]

Title says it all.

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[lollicat]

Try dithering. Rather than a border, you generally want it to fade.

[sickporsche]

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[sickporsche]

Would this be considered dithering?

[Godlord]

[This article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither#Digital_photography_and_image_processing) should give you a basic idea about what it is, how to use and why to use it.

Regards,
  Stephan.

[lollicat]

Dithering is basically a zoomed in checkerboard pattern. See the attachment.

Shiiiiit I meant the other way around, haha.

[sickporsche]

Nice find, and thank you for helping. I need more of a illiterate pixel artist guide. Would this be a good explanation of dithering?

http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Pixel-Artist

[sickporsche]

Shouldn't the dither and not dither be the other way around.

[Godlord]

You're right, but it's Trollicat.

Regards,
  Stephan.

[sickporsche]

Thank you for your help Stephan, I really appreciate it.

[lollicat]

@Stephan:

> You're right, but it's Trollicat.
>
> Regards,
>   Stephan.

Epic win.

[sickporsche]

I didn't dither, but I tried something a little different. Let me know if it looks better.


[Jeff]

looks better, but maybe make it even smoother? ninja pixel artists can pull off non dithered stuff easily, but im assuming your not a ninja pixel artist based on your lack of knowledge.  I would recommend trying dithering as well.

[sickporsche]

Dithering seems more complicated. I like how you said the lack of my knowledge haha, I'm hoping you didn't mean it in a rude way. Besides the point, what do you mean by smoother? Make the transitions more round?

[Jeff]

no, I mean more smoother by it gradually changing.  If you want a really good tileset tutorial, use anna's here: http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,41352.0.html
Its what i used to make some of my tiles until i got really bored.

[ddunit]

Looks like a giant crustless sammich floating on green water, please, the tiles are bad and the transition is horrible.

[Robin]

@DDunit:

> Looks like a giant crustless sammich floating on green water

Oh my God, I can see it too. xD

[lollicat]

@DDunit:

> Looks like a giant crustless sammich floating on green water, please, the tiles are bad and the transition is horrible.

Holy shit! Now that you say it, it DOES look like that!

[sickporsche]

@DDunit:

> Looks like a giant crustless sammich floating on green water, please, the tiles are bad and the transition is horrible.

Instead of criticizing in a rude manor, why don't you explain why the transitions are bad, and why the tiles are bad. I guess you can't read topics. I'm asking for advice since this is the first day of doing tiles.

[sickporsche]

Ok I worked on it a bit more. I like the results much better, but I can use advice.


[ddunit]

@HellsAngel:

> Ok I worked on it a bit more. I like the results much better, but I can use advice.
>
> 

Oh now you're being fancy, the crust has a _design_!

[lollicat]

It doesn't really look like grass or sand, more like water.

[Kinjiru]

@Lollicat:

> It doesn't really look like grass or sand, more like water.

Yeah thats cause of the texture, try one thats more grasslike

[Xavi]

@DDunit:

> Oh now you're being fancy, the crust has a _design_!

I like my crust best with design
Annnnnnnnnyway. It doesn't look terrible. You just need a more crisp texture on the sand

[sickporsche]

@DDunit:

> @HellsAngel:
>
> > Ok I worked on it a bit more. I like the results much better, but I can use advice.
> >
> > 
>
> Oh now you're being fancy, the crust has a _design_!

People like you are a ducking joke. You honestly aren't funny, neither amusing. I appreciate everyone else contributing advice to help out a noobie in pixeling.

As for changing it around with the grass and sand not looking right, does this look better?