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    DevilEvil's Custom Sprites

    in Spriting & Palette Showcase

    Posted

    Inspired by Gaypuff's class specific pauldrons, I started a project of animated pauldrons (probably element related, but not sure yet).

     

    The first one that I designed is an animated dragon pauldron (was thinking in fire but not sure about it, will have to make some tests).

     

    Before going further in the development, I was wondering if you could help me decide which design to use (you can suggest other stuff as well):

    2gw9541.png

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    Animated Headgear: Ringing Phone

    in Sprites & Pallette Downloads

    Posted

    @_@.....

    Sugoi hakuryoku wa subarashīdesu ne! watashi wa ima sore o tameshite mitai!

     

    i mean

    Woah looks awesome! i want to try it now!

    Nice work DevilEvil and thank you for sharing.

    Happily Your Highness xD!

     

    @mrlongshen, I don't test my sprites so I rarely have ingame screenshots. However I do consider how it will look ingame while pixeling it, I know there are many details that can't be appreciated because of the blur effect. For example, the numbers won't be seen as 1 pixel, but as a small bright blurred area xP. Usually this doesn't affect much unless you are writing text (in this case the font lines must have at least 2 pixels, or high contrast).

     

    @All, thanks for comments :P.

    Sprite Repository.

    in Graphics Requests

    Posted

    Why you post in source request lol!?!? *moves* :P

     

    I don't know any places to be honest, but biggest international communities use to have an ro enhancements section where you can download tons of stuff.

     

    Check brAthena and DivineRO.

    Opacity/Transparency

    in Graphics Support

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    There are two problems when you are new to TGA sprites:

     

    1. Understanding the TGA format (which requires general understanding of digital graphics).

     

    2. Knowing the process and common errors linked to RO TGA sprites creation.

     

    1- TGAs are 32 bits images. 8 bit images (which are the ones we usually use for sprites, in bitmap format) store the color in a color table or palette (something you already know due to your recent problem with a color mess up). However, TGA images, and all RGB (3 channels, red green blue) images actually, store the color information in the same image. So the pixel in these images stores the color value (it's not a pixel with a number that refers to an index of a color stored in a color table, in an external file called palette. The pixel itself stores the color).

     

    Three channel images have 24 bits (RGB), however, TGA images we use in RO are 32 bits images, which means we are using an extra channel. This channel is known as Alpha channel (32 bits = RGBA, red green blue alpha), and it stores the opacity information. So each pixel doesn't only store an RGB color, but also the opacity value (this is what let us apply different opacity values to all pixels, instead of all pixels sharing the same opacity value, which is what happens when we use 8 bits bmp images and modify the opacity via ActOR). We only use one single alpha channel per frame.

     

    2. We open our frame in Photoshop, go to the Channels tab (in the layers window), click on new channel, and this channel should be called Alpha 1 probably or something like that. In this channel, we don't draw the sprite, we just specify what is visible and what not. Pure white is 100% opaque, pure black is 0% opaque (transparent).

     

    So what we first do, is select the background in the RGB channel, then go to the alpha channel, and paint the selection with black, and by inverting the selection, we will get the shape of our sprite. We shall paint it with white or grey, depending on the opacity we want to apply. In the example you put, it would be grey.

     

    When we finish, we have to twirl it vertically (not with the rotation tool, we have to select it and apply a vertical twirl). Then save it as a TGA image. Open your sprite in ActOR (if you don't have one yet, open any sprite that is similar to your is size and frame number, as well as in function obviously). Select the frame in the bottom menu and click on replace frame. Load your TGA image. Do this for all frames, delete frames that aren't needed. All the frames must be TGA.

     

    Once you finished, save your sprite. If you are in ActOR 1, open it with ActOR2. In ActOR 2, run the script 8 to 32 bits. It will change the SprType value in all your actor frames, so it won't give an error ingame when you use the sprite.

     

    It should work with this. Feel free to ask if there is a problem.

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    Opacity/Transparency

    in Graphics Support

    Posted

    This result can be attained either by using a TGA sprite or (easier choice) by modifying the RGBA value of the image in the act. You would be changing the alpha value. In Actor, channels are ordered this way ABGR (AABBGGRR). This means that if a image has 00###### as a ARGB value, it will be fully transparent, meanwhile if it is FF######, it will be fully opaque.

     

    If you want to apply the same opacity value to the full image, I recommend you to use actor. Otherwise, make a TGA sprite.

    Please help...

    in Graphics Support

    Posted

    This is a palette mess up. Obviously all images are indexed if it's seen in SPR Conview. So it's not related to image format. Neither I think it's related to the encode value, there are no placement problems in his sprite, but color ones.

     

    the 1st frame was ok but the following frames change its color

    This always means that images are not sharing the same palette. You are doing something wrong if you say they are sharing the same palette. Keep in mind that in indexed images' color tables not only colors are important, but the way they are indexed. So if you have a palette with red, blue and yellow, it will be different from a palette with blue, yellow, red.That's way they are called indexed :P.

     

    In the other hand, we don't use .act to save palettes, but .pal (Palette or MS Palette).

     

    RE-index all the images using the palette of the first frame.

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    Happy Birthday Emistry

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Happy bday!

    *steals a year from Emistry's life* :P

    Noooo... i wanna claim it back .... :<  

    You can't just claim it. You have to file a dispute in PayLifePal. It may take from 5 to 15 business days until it's taken care of by PLP aging protection staff. If you are not subscribed to any Aging Protection Plan, you can't file a dispute to get your life back. However, you can give me $1000 to get your year back.

     

    Remember to read our ToS (only 150 pages, font size: 2)

     

    Sincerely,

    JewEvil xD

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