Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics

[Jetrel]

etc; female version.

[thespaceinvader]

The female's waist feels unnaturally thin - it doesn't leave space for her pelvis, particularly given the distance between bust and belt. Perhaps widening both their bodies by a pixel or 2 would be good.

[Jetrel]

The female's waist feels unnaturally thin - it doesn't leave space for her pelvis, particularly given the distance between bust and belt. Perhaps widening both their bodies by a pixel or 2 would be good.

Right. Here's an edit that should fix that.

[zookeeper]

Aren't their legs unnaturally wide apart at the hips? The inside lines of their thighs don't converge at the crotch, but instead there's a gap about half a foot wide.

[Jetrel]

Aren't their legs unnaturally wide apart at the hips? The inside lines of their thighs don't converge at the crotch, but instead there's a gap about half a foot wide.

This presumes the crotches are that low, and aren't being overlaid by the tunic. Yeah, it's cartoonish proportions to make their legs take up that much of the sprite, but it looks fine to me, and exaggerated proportions are the name of the game with sprites.


Second of all, legs don't quite meet at the crotch unless the legs are closed. The pelvis doesn't form a "point" between the tops of the legs, it forms a short "line segment". Just eyeballing things, but when I stand with my legs just 3 feet apart, there's about 4-6 inches between where the tops where legs join the pelvis. I can place an open hand there, against the pelvis, and have only the sides of it touch the legs. (I know this sounds perverse, bear with me). This is actually wider for many women, for obvious biological reasons; so much so that some women actually have a gap there - their legs don't even touch at the top, when their knees are together.

[Jetrel]

Thug animations are done, and ready for me to commit. Will progress to the L2 tomorrow.

[kitty]

I really like those new footpads! Everything is so much better now and the new clubs are really nice! The only thing I'm not really fond of is the spikey hair, it reminds me of dragonball and other evil animes in a bad way, the old hair rendering was much smoother.

[Jetrel]

I really like those new footpads! Everything is so much better now and the new clubs are really nice! The only thing I'm not really fond of is the spikey hair, it reminds me of dragonball and other evil animes in a bad way, the old hair rendering was much smoother.

Yeah, the impossible hair gets old and silly fast. The only reason I do it on sprites is the same reason heads get exaggerated; by making it this large, it gives enough room to show at least a few separate locks of hair going in different directions. I was actually quite dissatisfied with the old hair, though, which looked like a formless mop. I'll consider shrinking it down; it might be doable by a pixel or so without losing important details or the curved locks that indicate the round shape of the head.

As far portraiture goes, his hair isn't "spiky"; I'm just trying to suggest something disheveled and unkempt. So there's a pretty wide gamut of possibilities.



In other news, I've finished a remake of the blocking for the orc archer's melee animation, which you can see below. I'm going to finish that and the crossbowman up in the next day or two (I have not committed the thug, I'll do so soon.

[Girgistian]

Oo, that looks cool . Isn't it a bit powerful for the archer's kinda pathetic melee attack? Or is the sword there temporarily to help making the motion or something?

[Jetrel]

Oo, that looks cool . Isn't it a bit powerful for the archer's kinda pathetic melee attack? Or is the sword there temporarily to help making the motion or something?

The length? Yeah, it is a bit. I can shorten it.

You're right, though - in a mockup/block like this, that's a secondary concern to getting the motion right.

[Girgistian]

*Stomps on superiors foot*
I followed the discussion about the footpad's hair all the way to kitty's portrait thread, and tried to do something useful for a change. So blah.

[Jetrel]

Crossbowman blockup: includes defense as the first few frames, kinda like the orcs grunts.

[thespaceinvader]

It somehow doesn't feel as powerful as the others - I think it's down to that fact that he slows and stops the swing before he runs out of room for it, making the swing much horter than, say, the grunt's equivalent.

Not that it's a bad animation, just that it feels different from the other orcs, i think.

[Blarumyrran]

If that counts for anything, his melee isnt supposed to be his most flashy area of character.

[thespaceinvader]

However, feeling less powerful than the previous level isn't so handy...