Okay, I'm sick of this.

[Cloral]

There's only 1 green grass color (there's also the darker grass color but you don't need it for the other csets).

[C-Dawg]

Its probably a good idea to try and limit the number of palletes you design with for a screen to as few as possible- this way you have more freedom to use the shared Csets for common things like dungeon water or lava.

-C

[Cloral]

It is good to try to see how many differnt things a single series of colors can work for too - for instance, I was worried about the fact that the only versions of the trees I had was green on green grass. I was about to change the houses to use the same browns as the trees so that I could fit in a few more colors to enable me to put trees on different kinds of landscapes. But then I was playing around earlier and found that the house browns worked well for making dead trees. And one of the shades of brown in the tree trunk series is very close to the dirt brown (its off by 4 total) so I can now put trees on dirt. As for palm trees on sand (which will be important for the islands), I'm just going to have to do that via layering I suppose. That'll just mean that I won't be able to have any burnable palm trees there. Oh well.

So I guess my advice is to try experimenting with what colors you have and see what they can do. I guess you juat have to play around with paletting until you get a good feel for how it works.

[Dark Dude]

heho! JJ! I'm using the new1st pallette for my 1stDX tileset, but I think I'm going to start them over from scratch, it may be awhile, BUT OH FUCKING WELL!

[JayeM]

Another way to get more mileage out of csets is layers. Anything you're not going to be putting a flag on, like tree trunks and house tiles, can be put into layer 1 or 2 with transparent pixels where the dirt/grass will show through.

[Dark Dude]

I'm gonna do that in my 1stDX tileset revamp.

[K-Teclis]

Or you use more than one level palette on for the overworld...
but joining then would be hard in that way...