11-30-2015, 05:20 AM
Yeah, he does look like a banana...
And yeah, portraits are another of those list that has to be added to (well it doesn't break things, just makes the menu horrible without portraits). Personally the last time I did a game for myself with custom sprites I did go tbe route of sprites for portraits (didn't use all facing right/left sprites though, I had used a pose based on the character, laugh/surprised/finger in the air). It didn't look bad by any means. Setting up something for every sprite... yeah getting portraits for every one of them is pretty much a pipe dream. I think my plan once was to get a shadowed out portrait (siloette of sorts) and use that for all those that didn't have portraits.
Had never though about FFT portraits, that could work.
And yeah, portraits are another of those list that has to be added to (well it doesn't break things, just makes the menu horrible without portraits). Personally the last time I did a game for myself with custom sprites I did go tbe route of sprites for portraits (didn't use all facing right/left sprites though, I had used a pose based on the character, laugh/surprised/finger in the air). It didn't look bad by any means. Setting up something for every sprite... yeah getting portraits for every one of them is pretty much a pipe dream. I think my plan once was to get a shadowed out portrait (siloette of sorts) and use that for all those that didn't have portraits.
Had never though about FFT portraits, that could work.
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