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Battle animations.

A fair few of 'em.

@sgt M: Dunno if it ever came up but it bothers me when there's a blend effect / transparent in "neo-retro" sprite/nes style games. Might just be VX's default thing but I usually imagine a more opaque effect that deals less with transparencies and what an old graphics chip was capable of (palette swapping/generative masking):

photographic proof that StormCrow actually made a map

tall image warning?

srsly, it's the Counsel of Dragons, a sort of telepathic teleconferencing space where the seven dragons that rule the world can confer. It will probably only ever be used for this one cutscene after the credits of Episode 1. And now I'm off to script that cutscene.



here is the 1x1 detail of the area where the seven dragons meet.

In the center is the Time Dragon, clockwise left of him is the Crimson Dragon Baron Varymar, then conspicuous by his absence is the ice platform of Ice Dragon Baron Ulfyr, then Emerald Dragon Baroness Aemmyth, at the top is Ebon Dragon Baron Zylvidar Blackfyre (a name I obviously came up with when I was 12 and am sticking too), then the Golden Dragon Baroness/Goddess Chykoasso, and then in her pool is the Azure Dragon Baroness Cyrlira. whew; in summation: DAGRONS. The dragons in the hallway outside are young adults (older than Izuno). I have nearly hoarded graphics for all seven breeds and four age categories of dragons.

(obviously it would look much cooler if you could see the various large/huge dragons (esp. the one in the water) and not tiny random event sized postage stamps of them/nothing but i'll get there)

edit: damn it, i just noticed the seam

It has taken me a looong long time to finally get enough motivation to work on something with enough energy to prevail for more than a day, but it's finally here. I have found my muse again, and it doesn't leave me for fear of losing my progress again! Spriting is fun again, massive amounts of fun! And my art skills have improved, so I don't feel like making half-baked stuff anymore. It's a good feeling, really good.

So, to celebrate actually having fun again, here is the first sprite of a sprite sheet I am working on. =)

Opinions and critiques are appreciated.

@Darken: I tried, but it ended up looking weird. I might try to give the hands more of a shape, but for now I am alright with how it looks. It's very difficult to add less stylised hands with such noodly arms, haha.

Your lighting function seems like a very neat thing! I do think that the colours are too saturated, though. You could make the colour overlay (if you are using an overlay) a bit more transparent, that way the original colour of the tileset meshes with the lighting colour, instead of the whole map just becoming green/blue/etc.

Edit: Is this better?

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@sgt M: Dunno if it ever came up but it bothers me when there's a blend effect / transparent in "neo-retro" sprite/nes style games. Might just be VX's default thing but I usually imagine a more opaque effect that deals less with transparencies and what an old graphics chip was capable of (palette swapping/generative masking):

Yeah that basically is VXA's default thing, and I guess it never occurred to me "Oh, maybe I should find a way to change that."

Wonder if there is a way to play around with it without extensive scripting.

You could maybe make a simple script to delay long enough to run battle animations. Then just kinda aim a battle animation (explosion or something) to kinda cover over the transition.

Currently play-testing the alpha build of OHMIC! Going to work on the guide and record some gameplay alongside it. The next couple days or so are gonna be busy, for sure. Expect a page on here either tonight or tomorrow :)

I'm working on an MV plugin that should've been done years ago and would take no more than a few hours in the hands of someone already familiar with MV's personal brand of JavaScript if they were particularly busy that day.

Got back into working on my big project, Mayhem Maiden.

Hammered out that minigame I needed for dungeon 5, it works great and the scenes for it are great.

And now I'm staring at an empty map going "Ok, how the heck do I make something fun here for the dungeon exploration and combat part of this otherwise unconventional dungeon?"

...Wait, do I even NEED that in this dungeon?

I think I might be REAL unconventional this time around... :P

Working on dialogue for an early game scene



Here's a sneak peak, it's coming along well I think!