MotK Emblem (FE hack) - HELP NEEDED INQUIRE WITHIN

[MediumSoda]

Hurrah! Okay, I'll post the sprites on my photobucket as I finish them. If anyone can think of any fixes/improvements (not necessarily your character, anyones is okay), send me a PM and I'll add your idea to see if it looks okay.

Note: Like I mentioned earlier, the 3 sprites I already made I had good guys in mind, but all three got turned to villains, I dunno if you guys would be okay using the sprites as is or for me to edit/make new ones. I'd rather not have to change the sprites (I liked how they turned out), but if it's necessary, I could try to edit them.

[E-Nazrin]

Random thought regarding my own character: Due to the MOV change throwing 'me' into a different class of thief entirely (and very possibly removing the option of an assassin promote), it might be possible to treat my character as a prepromote into the nonexistent Rogue class and adjust stats/appearance point in the game accordingly. This also removes the problem of getting thieves to actually get kills to stand a chance of surviving. Maybe.

[Rikter]

Random thought regarding my own character: Due to the MOV change throwing 'me' into a different class of thief entirely (and very possibly removing the option of an assassin promote)

I've made Knights Promote to Clerics before so editing promotions shouldn't be a problem.

[MysTeariousYukari]

I've made Knights Promote to Clerics before so editing promotions shouldn't be a problem.

Wat :V That sounds... cool and funny. I'm trying to picture how it would be explained in story line :V What's next, Cavalier into Dragon?! XD

[Stuffman]

Obviously, these are just some recolors/edits/splices, but I can make some decent custome sprites too, just that these sprites didn't need me to make anything myself. I dunno, if you guys think I'm good enough, I can make sprites for some of the other characters too.

Aghaghaghaghagh let's not have any recolors/headswaps, they make me cringe. (Though I realize I'm lagging on making faces myself.)

[MediumSoda]

Aghaghaghaghagh let's not have any recolors/headswaps, they make me cringe. (Though I realize I'm lagging on making faces myself.)

Custom portraits made from scratch for 53 different characters...?

>.>

[Stuffman]

Yeah, it's a big workload, but it's also necessary.

If I see Canas's face on Raven's body, I don't see a new character, I see Canas's face on Raven's body. It makes the character completely forgettable.

[E-Nazrin]

That, or people actually want to have a finished game/hack to play, even if corners have been cut for it. =(

Late reply to Riktgan: Yeah, it doesn't save much, but if there's difficulty deciding on prepromotes, it's an option.

[Stuffman]

It will take longer to code all the script into the game then it will to make the portraits. It'll take at least six months on the hacking end, if just two portraits get made a week then we'll be on schedule. It also causes no problems whatsoever to use the existing portraits as placeholders and replace them with custom ones later, so the coders don't need to wait for us.

[trancehime]

Yes, I'm very certain that making 53 custom portaits will not take longer or at least take AS long as:

• Doing all the maps
• Writing the script
• Event Assembly
• Conversations
• Testing

[E-Nazrin]

Well... yeah, I guess it's less of an issue when you have artists available from the start. :S I've tended to be in projects where art/graphics was a major roadblock. Shutting up.

[Stuffman]

That's interesting, since most projects I've been on had the opposite problem; everyone was eager to brainstorm and fretting about getting sprites and music and crap, but nobody was doing any of the real work (i.e. actually making something you can play) so they always fell flat. This is why I always give people a hard time if it doesn't look like they're being serious on the programming end of their projects or they're jumping too far ahead.

Anyway, Rawro in progress:

Still needs a lot of work. I think her face slants too much to the side for the angle she's looking at, hair shading needs adjustment (bangs especially), need to add that flower in her hair, etc etc, should finish tomorrow though.

Girls are harder because they have more hair volume to manage, it's hard to make it look natural.

[trancehime]

That's interesting, since most projects I've been on had the opposite problem; everyone was eager to brainstorm and fretting about getting sprites and music and crap, but nobody was doing any of the real work (i.e. actually making something you can play) so they always fell flat. This is why I always give people a hard time if it doesn't look like they're being serious on the programming end of their projects or they're jumping too far ahead.

Except Sana, Rizock, Rikter and myself are actually doing a handy job of getting some actually playable material down the road. Which makes me happy

[Dead Princess Sakana]

That's a nice Ruro there~

[Stuffman]

Except Sana, Rizock, Rikter and myself are actually doing a handy job of getting some actually playable material down the road. Which makes me happy

Yeah it looks like you guys are making progress, which is why I'm actually helping.

[MediumSoda]

Stuffman, is something like this better?

Used huhwhat's character for this. Not 100% custom like your sprite, but it's not a recolor/splice.

[Gpop]

Alright. Tell me what you need and I'll try me best then I guess.

Still waiting for a response =/

[MediumSoda]

Still waiting for a response =/

It says on the first page. Gives a link to the character sheets and there it says what you need to fill out.

[Stuffman]

Stuffman, is something like this better?

Used huhwhat's character for this. Not 100% custom like your sprite, but it's not a recolor/splice.

I can't tell who it was made from, so yes, it's better.

[MediumSoda]

I can't tell who it was made from, so yes, it's better.

Hurrah, I can be useful to this project now! Okay, so if I have to use a different character as a base, I'll make sure to change their appearance as much as possible.

Spoiler:

Can I be a playable now? loljk

Edit:
Finished huhwhat`s sheet.

[Sana]

I'm finally starting to write again, but due to concerns about "OH NO SPOILERS", chapters will no longer be posted in this thread. I'll be listing the recruited characters per chapter in the first post, so people who really really want to alter their lines will have to PM me or talk to me in the easyFE channel.

Btw, those sprites look pretty fancy : P

[trancehime]

Great work Gofure and Stuffman! We really appreciate it!

Sana has stated concerns with the writing already.

Please discuss with us if you have any violent reactions over at #EasyFE! We really appreciate it! Let's work together to make this a reality.

[Sana]

HEY HEY GUYS
GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS
IT'S SUPPORT TIME!!!!!

Yeah, we're choosing supports in the channel now, and there's a part on the spreadsheet for them now. :V

[Stuffman]

This is where things get awkward because we have to decide which MotK members are our best friends :V

Stuff x Pesco, axe bros by land and by sea, at the very least.

[GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em]

Hurrah, I can be useful to this project now! Okay, so if I have to use a different character as a base, I'll make sure to change their appearance as much as possible.

Spoiler:

Can I be a playable now? loljk

Edit:
Finished huhwhat`s sheet.

This is my character's sprite so I get to be super nitpicky about it :>

First of all. I'm not really familiar with FE style portraits, but is it possible to change the color of the outline? It looks really weird around the purple parts of the robe.

Aside from that, the head seems a bit vertically stretched. If you compare it to the portraits of FE8's playable characters, my head looks somewhat taller than the others. Or maybe it's just my imagination, idk. If you could make the expression a bit more friendly looking, I'd appreciate that too, because it looks somewhat :smug: to me and I'm not sure that really fits too much.

Finally, shouldn't there be shading where the skin connects with the bangs at the bottom right of my face? The transition from the skin color to the dark brown doesn't look very smooth and it seems kinda awkward. Not sure if I'm explaining this right.

[Seian Verian]

This is where things get awkward because I'm awkward and don't tend to meet a lot of people that I'm really sure whether I'm going to really want to support with or not x:

So far I have supports with Trance and Jana. I'm not sure who else I'm going to want to support with but I don't want to have just the two x:

[Pesco]

This is where things get awkward because we have to decide which MotK members are our best friends :V

Stuff x Pesco, axe bros by land and by sea, at the very least.

Hell yeah!!

[trancehime]

This is where things get awkward because we have to decide which MotK members are our best friends :V

So far I have Dragoshi / rizock / Jana / ShiningDrake

and... yeha

[MysTeariousYukari]

Ummmm... How would we determine who we can have Supports with? Cause I can't really think of anyone... The only people I can think of include: Pesco, Kilga, Mode, Donut and Roukanken. I don't even know why for any of them, they just seem to "fit."

[Rikter]

The only support of mine that is definite yes is rizock.

As for other people I don't have much of an idea.