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[Rose]

It's a matter of style.

Just because something is realistic, doesn't mean it looks good.

All of the current sprites are cartoonish.

adding photos in there would look completely out of place. Like will smith in space jam.

[Truean]

It's a matter of style.

Just because something is realistic, doesn't mean it looks good.

All of the current sprites are cartoonish.

adding photos in there would look completely out of place. Like will smith in space jam.

Actually, that's a good point. Hum, I wonder if I could make an entire tileset based upon the realism/photo thing:walls, floors, etc <-- Idle thought.

[Andir]

Take pictures of real furniture... photoshop them into cartoonish furniture.

[NobodyPro]

Take pictures of real furniture... photoshop them into cartoonish furniture.

That's so crazy it might just work...

F.E: Traced stuff looks traced, use pictures as guides.

[Sorcerer]

i guess the problem here is that an isometric display with seemingly randomly aligned sprites end up looking extremely weird, and if you're going to use photoshop to redraw from a reference, you might as well just draw actual sprites that fit with the isometric view.

[Sorcerer]

Humm, is the large scale sprite sheets in the current release version? I scaled up my sheet but now only a couple of very large pixels are displayed ingame

[SalmonGod]

The easiest solution would probably be some very basic 3d box modeling of furniture rendered out in a cell shaded style.  Much easier than hunting for photographs or photoshopping or trying to draw stuff from reference.  Unless you want extravagant or accurate drapery, furniture is very quick and easy to model.

[Rose]

Humm, is the large scale sprite sheets in the current release version? I scaled up my sheet but now only a couple of very large pixels are displayed ingame

Did you set the scale factor in the sprite xml file?

This is an example:

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  <variant special="Normal" sheetIndex="0" zoom="3" color="bodypart" bodypart="skin" >
the number after zoom can be positive or negative, and specifies a scaling factor in the form of 2ⁿ times the origional sprite size.

so 3 would mean x2³ = x8, which indicates that the sprite is 8 times the size of a normal one, and should be scaled accordingly.

negative inverts it, so 2^-1 would mean the sprite is half the resolution.

[Sorcerer]

success!



So.. um... are we limited to using "only" one sheet of 375 tiles per creature?
Im thinking these high quality sprites i can do alot more detail, even as far as making induvidual cutie marks on a caste level...

[Rose]

Sheets aren't limited to number of sprites.

a single image is 20 sprites wide, and can be as tall as you need.

[Sorcerer]

Ooh, sweet. I forsee many pixels in my future

[Kaos]

Stonesense + clothing... simply awesome!!


By the way, what's with the ponies? 

[Andir]

Stonesense + clothing... simply awesome!!


By the way, what's with the ponies? 

This is the Internet... Ponies are the new annoying thing.

[Kaos]

Stonesense + clothing... simply awesome!!

By the way, what's with the ponies? 

This is the Internet... Ponies are the new annoying thing.

quote pyramid powers, activate!!
Not only ponies but, cartoonish girly looking candy coloured ponies 
It's a new meme or something?

[Black_Legion]

Stonesense + clothing... simply awesome!!

By the way, what's with the ponies? 

This is the Internet... Ponies are the new annoying thing.

quote pyramid powers, activate!!
Not only ponies but, cartoonish girly looking candy coloured ponies 
It's a new meme or something?

For the Bronie phenom:
<derail>

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bronie
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/bronies

Grown men and women who are interested fascinated with the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. A popular show on cartoon network.
-- It suposedly has good writing and animation quality, I believ coming from those who did Power Puff Girls back in the day.

I have never seen it.

</derail>

I'm really liking where we are heading with the clothes. Are there plans to have any specific leather colors or subtypes depending on animal?