Now, most confusing part would be what the hell do i put down? and How?
Well How is easy, select the tile you want to place, click the circle under the layer you wish to have the tile under and click =P
The mages in the "tiles" section fit perfectly into the squares.
And be sure to select all of the five layers: Background, Walkable, BG object, Object, and overlap. That way you can see every layer.
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7745/tutorial02im8.jpg I chose the background layer to put the tile under.
However; not everything should be put into the Background layer, You will find that any image that you try and place into the squares will be either reuced or expanded to fit the square. This is also the same for the walkable layer.
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/9275/tutorial03nb9.jpg
I will focus on the backgorund and walkable layers.
These two layers determine weither you can or cannot move on the tiles. You cannot put Walkable tiles over top of background tiles and vice versa.
In the screenshot below, i separated the walkable tiles with a photoshoped line; however I usualy use two different types of ground tiles to determine if the area is walkable. In this example i used dirt tile 01 for backgorund and dirt tile 04 for walkable.
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/128/tutorial04jm4.jpg
Putting the walkable and unwalkable tiles in practical areas is a given for any gamer.
I will now move onto the object layers.
Be sure to not use tiles on the object layer because they can stack and make a mess to clean up... actualy any image can make a mess if you click-hold-and drag. You will make a stream of copies.
Be sure to click once. If you are placing an object like a tree or any other object that would, with our physics be solid unpassable, be sure to put some background tiles undeneath the spot that would be unpassable. You can walk behind the tree and hide, but you cannot walk through the tree.
I labeled which two tiles where background cells.
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5101/tutorial05lz4.jpg
Now, to explain why there are three object layers.
The BG (background) object layer:
This layer is the layer that your character (i assume) will be over top (walk over, etc) but cannot be in the background layer or else it will just be resized.
This layer includes small rocks, grass, and leafs that you cannot hide behind but "step" over.
Object Layer:
This layer is for the objects that you can walk "behind" Or have even a slight bit of themselves in a spot where you can walk, like a rock. it would seem silly if you cannot walk through the rock, but if you stand in the right spot, you can look like you are on top =P
This layer belongs to buildings, trees, rocks, fences, graves, etc. Usualy you have a portion of the object as a background layer an another portion walkable like the base of a tree or building.
Overlap Layer:
This layer belongs to the objects that are overtop of images in the object layer. For instance, if you place some tall grass around a rock and htey are both in the object layer, you may find the grass may appear "underneath" the rock. Puttin an image in the Overlap layer allows you to put images overtop of objects. If you want an image behind an object, just put it in the BG object layer.
This layer belongs to tall grasses, chimnies, cracks and writtings on buildings, trees, rocks, and graves.
Basicaly the overlap layer mostly modifies the object layer.
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2279/tutorial06wj0.jpg
Now then, i'm too lazy to make a completed map for this tutorial, but I do have a completed map that I screenied and sim posted.
If you do take a look at that screenshot you will find some images overlaping other images when they shouldn't... I made that map without the 3 different layers T_T
I pretty much used one layer for all the objects haha!
Anyway, i hope this tutorial helps you out, I'll see if i can sticky this.
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