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FF6 style GBA adult Rydia - b1llygo4t - 03-12-2013
::EDIT:: current progress:
![[Image: b1llygo4t-ff4-adult-rydia.png]](https://www.ff6hacking.com/misc/sprites/b1llygo4t-ff4-adult-rydia.png)
A few years ago I started working on a FF6 style Adult Rydia sprite sheet. I posted about it here, but I uploaded the image to the forum which in turn was deleted and the thread lingered and was closed. then my hard drive went belly up. =( I found a copy the other day though and I decided to finish it. I have seen a few Rydia sheets floating around, but they all seem to be made from the ground up and incomplete. mine are based off of the GBA port and I think they look great. I think I'm convert it to the SNES colors though.
Is there a sprite making tutorial or thread with info I can use? I Have some questions and issues.
I downloaded FF3usME and exported a sprite sheet of Terra and just started copy/pasting my Rydia sprites on top. when i try to import my sprite it spits out "Pixel data eeper than what SNES palette can hold" how do I rectify that?
After reading up I realize that the sprites all share palettes. I also read that you can use a hex editor to assign a sprite to use an unused palette? can anyone expand on that? what is the best method of importing sprites that need a unique palette?
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - Ghost XIII - 03-12-2013
You should take a look at Lord Sutubenu's thread, it is loaded full of useful information:
https://www.ff6hacking.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=667
Aside from that, I also suggest you have an image editing program like Photoshop or Gimp. Gimp is pretty great because it is free and pretty straight-forward. You can use these to reduce your completed spritesheet palette to only 16 colours if you screw up somewhere along the way and accidentally go over 16.
If you have any other questions don't be too shy to ask, we're all here to help each other.
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - madsiur - 03-12-2013
(03-12-2013, 05:47 AM)b1llygo4t Wrote: After reading up I realize that the sprites all share palettes. I also read that you can use a hex editor to assign a sprite to use an unused palette? can anyone expand on that? what is the best method of importing sprites that need a unique palette?
You can do anything with an hex editor, but since the editor can do it for you it's much faster this way. The method to import a sprite is always the same, no matter if you want him to have a unique palette or not. What you will need to do is reorganize your palettes and have a unique palette from palette 0 to 6 for battle palettes and 0 to 5 for overwold palette. As an example, Terra has unique palettes (OW:04, BT:02).
As for doing this by hex, there is 8 battle palettes and they start at 0x2D6500 (ED/6500) and their assignments starts at 0x02D02B (C2/D02B). As for overworld palettes, there is 32 palettes. The first 6 are for characters and rest are used for other things such as NPCs and effects. Their offset is 0x268200 (E6/8200). As for the assignments, some are done through events (for characters). The rest are assigned in the NPC data.
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - b1llygo4t - 03-13-2013
Awesome! thanks a ton for the information guys, thats exactly what I needed. I'm sure I will have more questions and keep posting at least until I have some sort of working patch to go with these sprites.
I use good old MSPaint to do all my sprite editing, I have used the gimp and tried photoshop but for some reason it just seems like a task. For all my pallet limit sizing needs I found this .PNG quantizer a while back when I was making Worms Armageddon maps http://www.lemoda.net/png/quantize/index.cgi I have also used this browser image editor http://pixlr.com/editor/ its quite handy
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - SSJ Rick - 03-13-2013
ouch thats a no no right there NEVER use ms paint 4 character sprites
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - CrumpledMedal - 03-13-2013
(03-13-2013, 02:51 PM)Poco d(-_-)b Loco Wrote: ouch thats a no no right there NEVER use ms paint 4 character sprites
No NEVER, that was the issue I was always running into. FF3se and USME is what I do my spriting on, Paint may look good, but it just does not do well.
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - b1llygo4t - 03-13-2013
MSPaint 4 life son!this is the 3rd game I have done sprite work on solely using MSpaint. after dealing with Worms' messed up pallet limitations this isn't much.
the part i'm hung up on is making good custom sprites for angry and laying on the ground
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - SSJ Rick - 03-13-2013
dude its gonna affect anything and everything, including battle stats, lets not forget NPC's
I use the relm sprite editor personally
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - Ghost XIII - 03-13-2013
That must explain why the battle stats on all my characters are effed up, I alter my sprites in MS Paint or FF3se. Looks like I'll have to scrap all my projects and start over.
RE: FF6 style adult Rydia need help import/palette - SSJ Rick - 03-14-2013
you can do a different approach look at your old 1 as a reference and create your new 1 while looking at them side by side