[TUTORIAL] Creating new skins for MM8BDM

[FTX6004]

....What. You stole my thing.

[Deviddo]

Oh, my bad, my bad!  I had no idea!  It wasn't on the first post, so I didn't think it was a thing!

[Deviddo]

For whatever reason, it's not letting me import anything.  The second I hit import, nothing happens.

EDIT: Nevermind, I was just being dumb and hitting the wrong button.

[Necro_Ninja]

You mentioned that the PNGs could be any size, right?

If a PNG set is, say 16-bit (rather than Megaman's 8-bit), would it be twice as large as the regular megaman ingame?

[Kapus]

"8-bit" does not refer to a sprite's size. It refers to the sprite's color limitations (in this context, anyway).

[Deviddo]

Curiously, is there anywhere that explains adding your own custom sounds to skins?  Such as landing, getting hurt, dying, potential taunts, etc?

EDIT: Another thing, does anyone know if for a custom skin, for the dying sound, can I have it overlap the original dying sound or would I probably just need to use an editor to combine them?

[Russel]

This is all defined in SKININFO.
All you need to do is create a sounds folder in your pk3, place the sound files in (in a supported sound format) with the names of them having 8 characters of less in length.
You then change the sound names in SKININFO.
Proper sound values include:

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dsnoway - use fail sound
dsoof - landing sound
dspldeth - death sound
dsplpain - pain sound
dstaunt - taunt sound
dspunch - punch sound


One other value is mentioned in the article, but it is for the unused gib death sound, since the gib death is the same as the normal death.

[Deviddo]

Actually, apparently one is for when you're killed, and the other is for when you kill yourself?  Kind of odd, but whatever.
Found out you can set multiple sounds to one single value as well by making a file that specifies this, that might only work for taunts though.

EDIT: What exactly would the punch sound effect be for?

[Necro_Ninja]

I would think that the punch sound effect is when the skin takes damage.

I know nothing about coding, though, so don't take that into high consideration.

[Deviddo]

Honesty mistake.  I only found out as much as I did by poking around other skins and fiddling with SlumpEd.  dsplpain is the file that will play when the skin you're playing as takes damage.

This is just my honest opinion but, more skins should have custom sounds.  Makes them even more unique.

[Geno]

Several people have mentioned that to make skins for any classes that are larger than Megaman, you need some sort of custom ACS script.

I am wondering, exactly WHAT do you have to put in that file to make the skins work?

[Paragonx9]

Can I have a little pallete for colors I can use in my skin?
Oh and folowing what you said the front standing sprite would be HUNTA1 right?

[Deviddo]

The required colors, as stated in the first post, are: black (5, 5, 5), cyan (0, 255, 255) and blue (0, 115, 247).  Try to majorly use the cyan and blue, but if you want to use other colors, try to make it as in-style and as 8-bit as humanly possible.  For instance, if you're wanting a skin color or a white color, use the ones on the base sheet instead of finding your own, it helps it blend better that way as well.

[Geno]

I believe he/she is asking for the ENTIRE palette of possible colours for 8BDM graphics.

Well, even if that's NOT what you want, I'll put it here anyway.

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[Paragonx9]

I believe he/she is asking for the ENTIRE palette of possible colours for 8BDM graphics.

Well, even if that's NOT what you want, I'll put it here anyway.

3 things.
1. I am a guy. (Just saying :P)
2. Yes. That was what I was asking for.
3. I can't start SLumpEd because "MSVCP71.ddl is missing".
   How do I fix this.