[TUTORIAL] Creating new skins for MM8BDM

[Relias]

It's in the development forum, in which people without the mega man badge can not visit.

Well then why not put something like that in the editing forum where everyone can see it?  .3.  A lot of us will be making a lot of skins we could use resources for but we won't be getting any development badges for, lol.

I mean, I AM a little curious as to how various skins look in their "spritesheet" state, though it's rare to find people post pictures of that rather than the completed skin in action.

[Korby]

It has been posted. Several times. At least once in this topic as well.

USE. THE. SEARCH. FUNCTION.
seriously.

[Relias]

It has been posted. Several times. At least once in this topic as well.

USE. THE. SEARCH. FUNCTION.
seriously.

I think it's just easy to assume no one's put it anywhere else since its link at the very beginning of this sticky post leads to a closed forum, and in you guys' replies since my last post none of you mentioned it existed elsewhere or linked it.  I know it's super fun and makes you look awesome to rage at someone for not searching but in the time it took you to post your own replies, wouldn't it have been just as easy and much more constructive to go ahead and link me one of these and say "Well, they've been posted somewhere else since then, though!  Here you go!"

Besides, it's not an "it" I'm talking about; I'm not talking specifically about that Mega Man example just below that link itself, I was talking about several spritesheets in general, and guessing that whatever Cut linked in the first post there was something like several sheets of the official skins.  I kinda wanna see what sheets of characters of various sizes look like, and see how people composed various angles of 2d sprites at a glance.  I'm not even sure what to search for; "spritesheets"?

But, whatever, I'll go find some myself now, regardless.  Thanks.

[MagnetMan497]

Do they HAVE to be transparent? It just screws me up.

bUMP

[MegamanFTW]

I could do this if I knew how or had access to the templates

How many times does somebody have to post the template before you either stop asking or elaborate further?

I think he means like all of the official templates,EVERY,LAST,ONE

[Korby]

Do they HAVE to be transparent? It just screws me up.

bUMP

Do you want an annoying background on your skin?

[Lio]

Do they HAVE to be transparent? It just screws me up.

bUMP

Just don't use GIMP. Try Paint.net like a lot of people, including me, have recommended. Or look for another editing program that let's you use alpha backgrounds freely. In regular Doom cyan was supposed to be transparent btw, but I highly doubt that is the case here so yeah.

[TERRORsphere]

In regular Doom cyan was supposed to be transparent btw, but I highly doubt that is the case here so yeah.

Wrong. It was actually colour 256 which is black, it's displayed as cyan in most editors and most editors translate 256 to Cyan.

[MagnetMan497]

I use paint.net. My dude is screwed because of his black outline.

[Kackebango]

Okay now seriously. Why is every goddamn skin always 1 pixel below the line?



Shouldn't it stand on it?

[Ivory]

I believe it has to do with clipping. That line represents the skin's height off the ground. The reason it's one pixel under the line is to keep the sprite from appearing to be floating.

I could be wrong, I don't deal with skins too much.

[Max]

Leave it on normal zoom, and put the bottom pixel ON the line. So that it becomes PART of the line. That's how the official skins do it.

[Kackebango]

Leave it on normal zoom, and put the bottom pixel ON the line. So that it becomes PART of the line. That's how the official skins do it.

No they dont.

[Max]

Yeah they do, my custom skins line up with the official ones

[Kackebango]

Yeah they do, my custom skins line up with the official ones

Your skins line up with the official ones but they still aren't ON the line but UNDER the line.