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Work In Progress / Re: Additional soldier sprites

« on: January 03, 2013, 10:27:44 pm »

Moriarty ... I finally understand what your Avatar is. 

Those are awesome. When the game is finished, I'll use these mods, if it is possible. These suits are amazing, I hated that stupid  visor of the power suit.

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: January 03, 2013, 10:15:20 pm »

Fine by me, Hythlodaeus! Pixel creation isn't really my field (I'm a graphic artist, basically modifying existing pics and blend them with text, instead of making pics & art myself), so anyone who can do better is welcome!

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Work In Progress / Re: Additional soldier sprites

« on: January 03, 2013, 07:40:50 pm »

Awesome!

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Work In Progress / Re: Additional soldier sprites

« on: January 03, 2013, 06:49:04 pm »

That's awesome! I hope guys can make these multiple sprites idea work. I hated how *everybody* looked the same in the game.

Now, if we could also change that stupid helmet of the power suit and make it look like ... I don't know, a Cylon's helmet from battlestar galactica ... then I'm SOLD!

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: January 03, 2013, 06:41:30 pm »

The set of teeth on the enemy movement screen should do fine for the bite icon. It's also original game artwork, so need for coming up with new stuff.

Excellent idea!! I'll work on it right away!



Decided to put the eyes at the last minute, figured it is easier to make it out -- just the jaws seemed way too little in terms of information.

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: January 02, 2013, 08:39:42 pm »

Warboy, Moriarty, what do you think on the bear mouth for the reaper attack?

Also, are those ok for the 256 X-COM color palette?

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Suggestions / Re: New Player Messages and Right Click Tooltips

« on: January 01, 2013, 09:40:28 pm »

Frankly, I think that the old games are targeted towards the now-almost-extinct hardcore strategy gamers, who hardly need a lot of explanation for these things. The more casual-friendly strategits will probably get their fix with X-COM Enemy Unknown.

Good ideas, though I feel that very few people will bother with the classic in this day and age, aside from old players.

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Suggestions / Can we stop / Have we stopped the 255 death stat?

« on: January 01, 2013, 10:05:53 am »

Is it possible to freeze a soldier's stats on 255, instead of it going back to zero once a stat has reached that number?

Or have you guys done that already?

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: January 01, 2013, 10:01:27 am »

Okay, got it, thanks!









This time, I used a bear's open mouth for the reaper's mellee attack. I hardly think that ANYONE would claim copyright for this one -- it could be taken anywhere by anyone with his own camera, it's not art or sketch. Besides, it's so pixelated it's unrecognizable.

Moriarty: Since the Chryssalid has both hands ending in claws, he could just as well have BOTH inventory slots with a claw hand, one for left hand, one for right. One horizontal invert on the pic, and it's set.

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: December 31, 2012, 09:11:44 pm »

Hmm ... I found it, it is labeled "color table" on photoshop. I saved the pallette and loaded it in the chryssalid hand file, but the colours get completely messed up.

Does this mean I have to replace them dot by dot?

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: December 31, 2012, 08:59:43 pm »

I saw it. If I copy paste anything inside that pic, will that change the new pic's colours based on the pallette?

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Offtopic / Star Controll II - HD Remake finally released and awesome.

« on: December 31, 2012, 08:31:00 pm »

If you were PC gaming back in the 90s, you know that Star Control II was one of *the* best PC games out there. Well, I just learned from a member in the Xenonauts boards that the HD fan-made version is FINALLY released, and it's amazing. Gamepad support, high-res remade graphics, full speech of the 3DO version ... this is the best Star Control II gets.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/urquanmastershd/

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: December 31, 2012, 06:56:15 pm »

Ah, I see. Not sure how to read these colours though ...

Moriarty: Photoshop ACS5.

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: December 31, 2012, 06:30:57 pm »

Okay, here we are: 256 colors, 32 x 48, png format.

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Suggestions / Re: Alien Melee Attacks

« on: December 31, 2012, 05:23:55 pm »

Dimensions are 320 x 480 - they can be easily resized to 32x48, I just given it bigger in case they need it for high-res.

Warboy said that, while a pain in the butt, it may be added.

Forgot about the 256 color, I can fix that asap.