Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N10 24-Nov-2024 Aurora's Dawn

[XOps]

I think I fucked up somewhere..

Don't ask how the fuck I managed to stuff this into the XCOM palette, either. It's pure luck.

Nice spritework there. 

[Bloax]

Thanks, it took about four hours (quite a long time by my standards) to crank out.
What's amazing is the fact that I actually did something after several months of not doing anything.


Here's a zoomed in one just for clarity's sake.

@Below:

There's not much to look at - I just know how to work within a palette from experience with Doom modding.

[Roxis231]

I think I fucked up somewhere..

Don't ask how the fuck I managed to stuff this into the XCOM palette, either. It's pure luck.

If you Email me a copy of your originals and the palleted versions, I can have a look for you.

[Foxhound634]

I've noticed that academy explorers are only named "explorer" in research and manufacturing (slavery) without the academy prefix

[Dioxine]

I think I fucked up somewhere..

Don't ask how the fuck I managed to stuff this into the XCOM palette, either. It's pure luck.

Awesome. Absolutely awesome. Now, will you do the remaining 2000 images? I can supply the basic dolls etc.
The palette is legit, so it's all fine.
If there's anything I don't like, the legs could use some more muscles

[Bloax]

That's because the baggy pants obscure the otherwise pretty defined musculature. All on purpose.

And yes, I do plan on eventually revising all armors, as crazy as that is.
The thing that annoys me the most is the flatness of most hair though.

Also, would you mind if this piggy pink color tone became the standard cracker color? I really don't like the piss yellow XCOM one.
Both because I think that it doesn't look that good outside of the very specific XCOM1 comic style and because it's a nightmare to work with.

[DracoGriffin]

Good lord, somebody got massive implants.

[Dioxine]

Yeah the hair is in most cases, rather weak. Pink instead of yellow is fine. And it will probably be better to start off with a nude template, that way the work is limited to 2-3 skin tones, 32 heads, and only as many armors as you want - seems that existing armors can be easily pasted over... Well, most of them suddenly wouldn't fit... Maybe the chest should be smaller by, like, half a number...

[Bloax]

Yeah the hair is in most cases, rather weak. Pink instead of yellow is fine. And it will probably be better to start off with a nude template, that way the work is limited to 2-3 skin tones, 32 heads, and only as many armors as you want - seems that existing armors can be easily pasted over... Well, most of them suddenly wouldn't fit... Maybe the chest should be smaller by, like, half a number...

Don't worry, I'm experienced enough of a sprite artist to know that making something nude is the best way to start off, since adding is easier than removing.
You just don't see that everything is in fact, slapped on, due to carefully shading the edges so that they don't look off. ;^)

I do think the knockers are just a tad too big myself, but that's due to me being unable to draw them for the life of me and resorting to alternative methods.

[Cristao]

Strongly prefer the big knockers myself ..

[Dioxine]

Yeah but there's big, and there's ridiculously big, me preferring the former over the latter

[Bloax]

Quick update on the fact that I really doubt that I can squeeze in more normal human colors than these two.

Anything else looks either unnatural as fuck or really ugly.

[Foxhound634]

I've noticed that academy explorers are only named "explorer" in research and manufacturing (slavery) without the academy prefix

BTW does this belong here or in the bug thread?

[DracoGriffin]

Wait, what's the nude template look like? 

... Research purposes, of course. 

[Dioxine]

Quick update on the fact that I really doubt that I can squeeze in more normal human colors than these two.

Anything else looks either unnatural as fuck or really ugly.

Nice it is. Two types is good enough. The only problem is that for the dark skin, you use the same exact color as for leather, and there are many leather elements in Piratez. Maybe on the dark skin, leather could use some alternate tone. Or recolor leather in general to use one of the remaining 3 yellow-browns. Or some brown-black tone? I don't really know, but it cannot have the same color as skin.

I also liked the idea of a single contrasting element on the belt, until I realized it was long hair Maybe add something red to one of the side pouches indeed? Something akin to strapped red knife which was added to tactical armors.