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her guys and gals uhh this thread is about you the super awesome sprite hackers giving little ol me some tips and stratergies for making custom sprites this could be used for others aswell.
My current stratergy is to put a ff3se next to the image im working on but i only zoom x11 should i go more indepth and go 20x for the hair and such?
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to be perfectly honest with u.....don't use ff3se.....trust me
you are much better off using the other editor (PM me with your email if you do not have it)
the reason why is because you edit every single detail of the sprite, which is why it is a much better tool, other then that, you can always save after editing each tile which means u can go back to fix mistakes other then that you can extract the bin files which provide you with the dead n riding sprites
hair is usually the biggest pain in the ass 2 do, the key is consistency if you can make it look good, and relatively similar you can tackle anything else
as for speed, it all depends on the mood I am in really
but honestly it can take a few days to a week depending on a person's pace
then again, it is possible to do it in a matter of hours if you really haul ass and put your work in
"Sometimes ninjas do wrong to each other, and in dat way the force of tha earf' comes around da moon - and at that presence, da dirt, it overshadows the grass, so you're like, I can't cut dis grass, there's no sun comin' through. So in order to enable each other the two fruits have to look each other in da eye and understand we can only be right, as da ripe is wrong, you know what I mean?"
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I use a program called Graphics Gale to do the sprite editing. I can set up the 16x24 grid and place them all in it. I can change colors the same way I do with FF6SE.
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To be honest I use both FFSE and FF6usSpriteEditor. I first use FFSE to get most of the work done (plus it is much easier to edit hair and capes with the program) then I use FF6usSpriteEditor to do the riding and death sprites which at the same time fixes the small glitch with the forward walking hands.
Like Poco said, it really depends on the person on how long it takes.
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06-04-2010, 11:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2010, 11:48 AM by SSJ Rick.)
my advice to you is more shading, in order to provide better detail, my best advice to you would be to look @ his 2 shades of hair and make them a brighter and darker red, and seeing as how his outfit is the same red, use those same colors for his clothing, as for the white, I suppose you can add another shade in it
but as for his hair, I recommend looking @ my Bartz sprite sheet as a reference seeing as how Bartz' hair is similar to that of the fighter, also look @ Cyan or an imperial soldier for some parts of the armor
"Sometimes ninjas do wrong to each other, and in dat way the force of tha earf' comes around da moon - and at that presence, da dirt, it overshadows the grass, so you're like, I can't cut dis grass, there's no sun comin' through. So in order to enable each other the two fruits have to look each other in da eye and understand we can only be right, as da ripe is wrong, you know what I mean?"
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My advise would be to not limit yourself so much. The Fighter sprite really only requires two things: the character be a male with crazy hair and that there be red. Throw in a few other colors, make his armor more like armor and add details to it like gold buckles and gilded designs or such.
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okie doke il get to that but in my ff3 screen shot (i nearly got the last 2 job classes yay) the fighter has that hair style but in battle its like bartz's hair i made him like the original for zeemis's ff3 hack thats why i was "limiting" myself but umm what exactly is shading? is it the shadow? i doubt it do you mean more creative colours? since its my 1st il follow all your tips and make a prototype then i might make a proper 1 (cuase the original is a touch smaller isin't it?)
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ooo I see I thought u wanted to make 1 from scratch, in that case I might as well make a fighter then
"Sometimes ninjas do wrong to each other, and in dat way the force of tha earf' comes around da moon - and at that presence, da dirt, it overshadows the grass, so you're like, I can't cut dis grass, there's no sun comin' through. So in order to enable each other the two fruits have to look each other in da eye and understand we can only be right, as da ripe is wrong, you know what I mean?"
-HNIC
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