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[deranger]

Where do you get your colors?

[fuzz94]

I just recolor them my self. But I'm now realizing that I should be getting colors from other mugs.

[deranger]

I just recolor them my self. But I'm now realizing that I should be getting colors from other mugs.

Yes, yes you should. Looks like you're going for FE6/7 colors.

[fuzz94]

I've been making these for an FE8 hack and recoloring them is on my to do list.

[Lassie]

Yes, yes you should. Looks like you're going for FE6/7 colors.

I do hope you mean that, at this point, it's wise for him to use IS colors, and not forever.
Since, if you're good at picking colors yourself, it's better to use your own since lol IS colors.

[fuzz94]

Recolored to FE8 colors

[I have opinions]

Except the first one still has FE7 skin colors on it. Might wanna fix that.

[· j e a l o u s y ·]

My eyes are burning.

[Darros]

What's going on with Jenna's minimug chibi thingermabob? She has a collar that extends right into the scarf.

[fuzz94]

Okay so Jenna recolored and fixed chibi.



and I'm starting a custom animation for Isaac.

[I have opinions]

And her skin is still using FE7 colors.

[fuzz94]

Umm. I just tested it in usenti with the skin from L'Arachel's mug and it read them as the same tones.

Edited by fuzz94, 10 February 2012 - 11:07 PM.

[I have opinions]

Then your L'arachel is broken, kid, because these are FE8 skin tones

Don't use Usenti. It messes with color values. Always use Microsoft paint for these things, it's a much better utensil.

[fuzz94]

Alright then. Thanks for the help.

[Jubby]

Uhhh the only way Usenti messes with colour values is to:
a) occasionally round the colours so they match up with GBA colours (i.e. it rounds their RGB values so they're multiples of 8), and
b) if you have 8 million colours in one image, it'll bleed them into each other because it can only take so many colours (256 per image) So if you want to compare sprites you can't use like, a sheet with 8 million portraits on it, you have to open it as a separate image.

For any sort of GBA graphics work, Usenti is a much better utensil.

[I have opinions]

For any sort of GBA graphics work, Usenti is a much better utensil.

Why, because it has a bunch of "nifty" options and tools? :P

Paint is simple, paint has all of what you need, paint works fine.

If Usenti is so amazing, he shouldn't have had any trouble with the skin tones, there :3

I've been doing this stuff for about three years, I think I know which programs are good for it ;D

(so here's a nice list: Microsoft Paint, GIMP (for those who don't mind the RAM usage), Paint.net, GraphicsGale, and for the Mac users, pirate some Photoshop.)

Kiddies, anyone who says you needs more than Paint is just trying to be fancy. It has all you need, you just need to know how to use it.

Just wanna add, Jubby, let's not get into any sort of debate as to which is better in Fuzz's topic. If you wanna discuss it, throw a PM at me ;3

Edited by seph1212, 11 February 2012 - 09:04 AM.

[Jubby]

Actually, GIMP is probably the best option, it uses indexed palettes, you can recolor every instance of a single color in one go, you can make it 16 colors with posterize, etc.:P All the extra tools Usenti has and not as bitchy as Usenti. :)

[I have opinions]

Too bad about the huge RAM usage on GIMP, though. though if his computer is as good as mine, it should be no problem.

[Jubby]

It works fine for me but it's kinda hit and miss whether when starting it up, it'll actually work (sometimes it randomly stops responding when it's loading brushes and whatnot) but aaaaaah topic derail (Sorry! D:)

[fuzz94]

I use paint for the actual spriting/splicing because paint does everything I need to it to.

I only use Usenti for mass recoloring the 16 colors bit so the sprites actually can be inserted.

I dont care about getting off topic because those are some programs I might want to try in the future when I get better at this