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Straff
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I'm looking for a Skeleton Swordsman sprite

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Hello community. I am searching for some skeleton sprites, skeleton sprites with different weapons than the usual axe or bow.
- Skeleton Spearman
- Skeleton Swordsman
- Skeleton Fencer
and what other weaponry you can think of.
Can you point me an era or a campaign where I can find such sprites?
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Draconian Era has a skeleton spearman (borrowed from somewhere else, sorry I forgot where).
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The mainline campaign Liberty has a Death Squire with a sword.

There is also an older version of the Death Squire in Wesnoth 1.8.
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Atreides wrote: April 25th, 2023, 8:18 pm Draconian Era has a skeleton spearman (borrowed from somewhere else, sorry I forgot where).
That sprites head has something like horns, its like a horned skeleton, it looks like a complete different race. :hmm:
gnombat wrote: April 26th, 2023, 5:24 am The mainline campaign Liberty has a Death Squire with a sword.
Nice sprite, but it looks definitely like a level 2 leader unit, and I'm looking more for level 1 ordinary soldier units.
gnombat wrote: April 26th, 2023, 5:24 am There is also an older version of the Death Squire in Wesnoth 1.8.
This one looks good for my purposes, it can be used for a level 1 undead fencer.

Thank you both for your answers. I hope that someone shows more sprites, it's hard to believe that there are so few undead soldier sprites to find here.
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If you find something please post it, you're probably not the only one looking for such sprites. ; - )
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Straff wrote: April 26th, 2023, 4:44 pm Nice sprite, but it looks definitely like a level 2 leader unit, and I'm looking more for level 1 ordinary soldier units.
There is a lvl1 unit to it in Rashy Era

As for the horned spearman, that's easy to edit out
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I don't speak English
You can use makehuman for create it yourself,theres a skeleton in the assets section and swords and other weapons.
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Come folks, this is exactly the kind of thing that frankensteining is for! Y'all can pluck a cool sword from somewhere and put it on a skelly friend, I believe in you!
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Didn't find this, I made it! Made an armless version so you can add all the weapons you want. Hope im not late! Image
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They are looking great. All kinds of weapons, only the spearman is missing.
Do you can provide ready-to-use sprites? I have no idea how to do it.
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Straff wrote: December 30th, 2023, 5:34 pm They are looking great. All kinds of weapons, only the spearman is missing.
Do you can provide ready-to-use sprites? I have no idea how to do it.
search for franken packs on the forums :D
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Everyone says frankening is easy. : ) But while it may be more assembly than creation it still does require one to know how to use a paint program. Old ones I used to play with in the 80's were pretty simple but I've got GIMP and it looks like you need a PhD to use it... ; )
In fact it's so much trouble that any pics posted to the forum that are not already in 72x72 sprite format are useless to clods like me who can't even figure out a "simple" thing like cutting apart a "sheet" of sprites.
Now joking aside I know that everyone involved with Wesnoth is a smart cookie. Any of us can, if we make the effort, figure out how to use GIMP. It does require a commitment to it though.
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From my experience as media designer with photoshop and other layout and photo-software I have to say: Gimp isn't easy to learn, even so I had the background knowing all the other programs before. But if you can handle photoshop, it is mostly easy. But there are easier and better programs for that task.

Quickly made some skelis, got a little bit lost in the details.
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A darker shield, to make it look older.
A darker shield, to make it look older.
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Well, the fist is empty here. Still looks like a defensive stance.
Well, the fist is empty here. Still looks like a defensive stance.
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Bright shield Skeli, looks a little bit to bright.
Bright shield Skeli, looks a little bit to bright.
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Great, thank you Heindal. :D
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