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[ziose0]

The shaman is a generic enemy just used as a boss in that chapter. So there's no problem there. As for the splices, I'm not as concerned, because the thing that makes them most obvious is their faces, which are exactly how I depicted there. Plus, I'm a writer, not a spriter...or a mapper haha. All of the generic enemies are easily identified as well. This is only one of the stories I'm planning to use with this hack. The next generation's sprites are the ones I spent the most work and time on. And even some of them are obvious. Doesn't make them bad

[I have opinions]

Doesn't make them bad

Mmmm yes it does.

It takes away from them as characters if they still look like what they've been spliced from.

Now, you don't have to change them if you don't want to, but I'd highly suggest it.

People prefer to look at more complex and clean splices than simple, easy to tell ones.

[Warg]

When neilson dies he says " sorry brother" i think he should say "sorry sister" and the battle animations of some characters, like noah, have horrible colours

[Jubby]

Like this:


I'm pretty sure it's just Wil and Lugh's hair, stuck on Roy's face stuck on Erk's body. It's not really a complex splice (It's not even all that clean tbh, I have some work to do fixing up) but people would enjoy it more simply because it doesn't look exactly like Lugh recolored (Although it's not that far from it :/)

[ziose0]

I understand. Well, I mean, I'll work on that once I have time then. But as for the generic enemy, as well as some of the bosses because they become generic, I believe it's safe to say I can leave them alone, right?

But Still, I will work on splicing the mugs more in spare time I suppose.

[deranger]

We're telling a hacker to spend his time spriting now?

[Kitty of Time]

tbh it's not bad to have multiple talents, but yes, there's not really much of a point in telling him to mug unless he actually wants to do that.

[I have opinions]

We're telling a hacker to spend his time spriting now?

we're telling a hacker to get better sprites for his hack

no one said he had to make them himself ;/

[ziose0]

Well I mean, I enjoy spriting and all...but yeah, my talents are pretty limited...of course I'd appreciate any spriters who would like to assist me here, but I'm still wanting them to at the least somewhat resemble what they appear to be now.

[Celice]

Like this:


I'm pretty sure it's just Wil and Lugh's hair, stuck on Roy's face stuck on Erk's body. It's not really a complex splice (It's not even all that clean tbh, I have some work to do fixing up) but people would enjoy it more simply because it doesn't look exactly like Lugh recolored (Although it's not that far from it :/)

If the hair is just better spliced on, he'd look perfectly fine. I see no resemblance, only a crappy integration of the parts.

[ziose0]

That's not one of mine. That was just an example they were using to tell me I need better splices

[Jubby]

Haha yeah Celice, that was mine, just the only one I had on my Photobucket :P But you can see that his hair in the front has thinner lines, because Wil has thinner hair :P That's where it tends to fail.

[deranger]

we're telling a hacker to get better sprites for his hack

no one said he had to make them himself ;/

I thought our mantra was show hacking progress, then ask for sprites

[Warg]

I found another problem, if i dont skip the conversasion before chapter 4(last chapter) the game closes

[ziose0]

Well I've shown a bit of progress, but I haven't worked on it in a good while. This is the progress I had awhile back. I've just been busy. I kinda would rather do the sprites myself though and just get advice, unless I'm just shown a sprite that fits what I'm looking for exactly. But still, Warg what convo are you talking about? Because I just went through Ch. IV myself with no problem. Did you have someone die?

Edited by ziose0, 20 February 2012 - 05:03 PM.

[Warg]

Yeah i had, neilson died. And if i skip the conversasion i can play and neilson is back

Edited by Warg, 20 February 2012 - 05:06 PM.

[ziose0]

Okay, that's on me. The events need him to live, because it requires him to move. I was gonna be lazy and just tell people to make sure he lives in Ch. III, but I guess it'd be better just to fix the events so it doesn't matter...<_<

[Warg]

Lazyness, i now the feeling

[ziose0]

Okay, so although I'm not a spriter, I managed to change three of the main characters in my spare time. So here's the revisions. The only thing was, I didn't really like the way Penelope (the light violet hair girl) was looking compared to before, so until I either get better at spriting or someone puts up a suggestion, I'm keeping her the same. As for the other two, I kinda like where they are going, especially Colette (the girl with the ears). So I messed around with some colors and made some variations, but now I'm unsure if I want to continue with the blonde I had before, or give her the black hair like pretty much every other myrmidon female

[Klok]

inb4 tons of hate

I like the guy at the bottom right, looks unique enough, and I wouldn't look at it hard enough to see who it was spliced from.

Bottom middle chick has a thin neck that's about to fall over and snap in half.

Dat Collette girl. The top right one looks the best to me, but the hair on the right side is pointing straight down, looks odd.


That's my critique. I don't see anything terrible about it. Srsly though seph y u say "make hack, ask for sprites later" then say "make sprites, hack a little, ask for more sprites, then hack more"? u so confusing