1837: You know that there's a thread like this on UTI that has about 65% of the posts in this tread. 1838: You know what UTI stands for. 1839: You've read all the posts in that thread. 1840: You've thought about reposting those signs here. 1841: You knew about that thread before this post.
1843: You wonder how many people inflated their post count by copying from UTI.
1844: Everybody knows posts in Humor and Jokes don't count?
Cool however, I think it looks a bit cluttered compared to other 84+ RPGs, due to the large size of the HUDs and players. If you could trim down the size of some things that would be awesome.
Paint.NET It should be somewhat the same process in gimp... Here's now in a nutshell:
Spoiler For lots of text:
1. Find a color scheme you like--be it blue, LOPN pink, or something as simple as gray. Pick out three different colors, the base/normal color, one somewhat lighter (as if lights hitting it), one darker (as if it's in shadow)
2. Draw the sprite, on an 8*8 (or whatever) canvas. Resize to 4x original size (32*32, normally) using "nearest neighbor" as resampling (keeps the blockiness).
3. Say 1 is the base color, 0 is the dark color and 2 is the light color. So if you have 1111 1111 1111 1111 beforehand, edit it so it's like 1222 0112 0112 0001 Basically, use the pencil to draw the light color on the top and right, dark color on the left and bottom. Or change accordingly if you want the light to come from somewhere else. For the lighting I have in these, leave the corners meeting in an up-left manner (and down-right) gray. Look at the pictures above for examples.
If you're using the brush, make sure antialiasing is off btw. Also make sure the background color is transparent or distinct from the three chosen colors, you'll need to differentiate them later.
4. Now re-size to what will be the final size, 128*128 or whatever. Select everything but the background color that's hopefully different than the three colors in the pic.
5. Gaussian blur, fiddling with the radius until you like the result.
6. Make any finishing touches (transparent background, extra cropping, noticing mistakes and ctrl+z'ing back to step 3 to fix it, etc
Input is really buggy, personally I'd only use it as a last resort. You'd probably be better off making your own input routine (or use one from the routines thread, such as this from the routines thread)
Yes, that's the only way to do it, even though I never managed to do it, even with the routines. I wish somebody posted an example
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