Use more tilesets than just ABCDE

Can I use more than just the 5 (A,B,C,D,E) tilesets per map? It doesn't seem like a lot at all, especially since some tilesets just have a few tile designs in them.

To the best of my knowledge...No.(as long as you are counting all parts of "A" as a single "tileset" instead of 5 working together)

Though you can take those ones with only a few tiles and combine several of them into one, you just have to remember to credit the one(s) who made the tiles the same as if you used the set as it was. Lining them up can be a pain though if you don't have a 32x32 pixel grid in the image editor you are using. The grid lines must be BETWEEN the pixels to show the borders, not on a pixel or your tiles will be offset and won't line up properly. Also, leave the upper left 32x32 pixel square completely empty, not even an opaque background. You will need to set that tile to a star passability in the database.

No, one tileset consisting of five A1 to A5 sheets and four B-type sheets only per map.


However, you can make different tilesets for different maps, and use frankentiling to make new tilesheets where unused tiles from one sheet are replaced with tiles from another sheet that you can't fit into that structure.

^^ lol. Had to do that a few times...

You actually only need to do this for tile B.

What's frankentlling? Is it a script or software or something? And were can I find it?

Frankentiling is what I described earlier, I just didn't know the term for it. :p

Basically take the tiles you are using and combine them into one(or a small number anyway) sheet.

It's from the story of Frankenstein - creating a patchwork of a tileset by opening several sheets in an image program like GIMP or Photoshop and copying some tiles from one sheet to replace unused tiles from other sheets.

for more advanced mappers there is also parallax mapping, overlay mapping (http://yamiworld.wordpress.com/yami-engine/image-display/overlay-mapping/) in both techniques you draw your map in photoshop or gimp (or similar) and then use that picture as your map (and there you can use every tile you can copy past out of the png files ^^) (deferenc betwen the 2 techniques is that in paralax mapping you abuse the build in paralax background feature, weras in overlay mapping you need a script but than you have more features and can still use the parallax for it's intended use).

or a script i found some days ago (haven't tested it jet): http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/18740-multiple-map-layers/

Thanks for the help guys.