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What would you like me to create more of?

  • NPCs (enemies, house NPCs, etc.)

    Votes: 1,170 19.4%

  • Bosses

    Votes: 2,451 40.7%

  • Items (Accessories, Weapons, etc.)

    Votes: 1,586 26.4%

  • Vanity (furniture, armor sets, etc.)

    Votes: 438 7.3%

  • Mineable Stuff (Ores, Blocks, etc.)

    Votes: 372 6.2%
  • Total voters
    6,016
ArmyFrog said:
I will, when I get the ores done. (I should've mentioned that I sprite very little on Fridays and Sundays, and Saturdays I don't sprite at all.)
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Great! Don't rush yourself though. If all the ores and the Slime God aren't done by tomorrow I can always release a "stealth patch" later on to implement them after tomorrow's update.
 
New summon works pretty well.
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To give an idea of new items that still need sprites here we have them. Aside from resprites these are the only new things that need to be done.

Items:
  1. Blood Clot Staff sprite. Summons a blood clot to fight for you.
  2. Teratoma sprite. Summons the Hive Mind.
  3. Accretion Disk sprite. Auto-thrown boomerang that emits a star-shape blast of more projectiles when enemies are near.
  4. Spatial Lance sprite. Spear that fires a spatial beam that can split into more spatial beams on enemy hit.
Minions:
  1. Blood Clot. Looks like an undulating blob of floating blood.
Enemy NPCs:
  1. Dark Heart. Looks like a corrupt version of the crimson shadow orbs. Summoned by the Hive Mind.
Armor sprites:
  1. Victide armor sprite sheets.
Tried to make this as detailed as possible as I have to go to work in 5 minutes.
 
After looking at the current plaguebringer sprite, non-offense to the spriter, but its actually pretty terrible.
The sprite's pretty anti-aliased and the shading's pretty cluttered. The sprite has no less than 100 colors, and its a nightmare to work with. It'll take me a bit to simplify the sprite's colors.
[EDIT]: 112 colors.
I'm still gonna keep the sprite faithful, but it certainly needs some changes.
 
Ziggums said:
After looking at the current plaguebringer sprite, non-offense to the spriter, but its actually pretty terrible.
The sprite's pretty anti-aliased and the shading's pretty cluttered. The sprite has no less than 100 colors, and its a nightmare to work with. It'll take me a bit to simplify the sprite's colors.
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No wonder it took so long to animate (parts) of it then.
 
Ziggums said:
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Here's my "edited" version, added some details here & there to give the sprite more depth without cluttering it.
Before i animate it, i'd like to know what you would want to be added or changed.
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My only complaint is the "Stinger" part of it. Making the base of the stinger smaller and raising it up a bit would make it look much better in my opinion.
EDIT: and the long green tentacles were really neat IMO as well, maybe add those back too. Again just my opinion, Drew and the others have the final word.
 
Ziggums said:
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Here's my "edited" version, added some details here & there to give the sprite more depth without cluttering it. (from 112 to 10 colors)
Before i animate it, i'd like to know what you would want to be added or changed.
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Definitely a big improvement, it could benefit from some more colors tho. I know it'd be more work, but I think the problem in the first place was it's posture. What if the thorax hanged down more and had a stinger pointing outwards more akin to the hornet sprite as opposed to the queen bee sprite of a horizontally shaped backside?
 
When spriting, usually your cap of colors should be 12 for most sprites. (characters should never go over 8 for example, the smaller the sprite, the less colors it should use.)
You should also remember that this is it's "Charging forwards" animation, but i'll see what i can do.
I'll wait for more responses to see what the consensus will be.
 
Ziggums said:
When spriting, usually your cap of colors should be 12 for most sprites. (characters should never go over 8 for example, the smaller the sprite, the less colors it should use.)
You should also remember that this is it's "Charging forwards" animation, but i'll see what i can do.
I'll wait for more responses to see what the consensus will be.
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A lot of bosses and larger sprites break that rule, the destroyer has +50 colors to name one example. Adding 2-3 more gray colors and dithering them would make it look a lot better. Also I didn't realize it was in it's charging animation, my b
 
Comparison:
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The color count is 14. I kind of just freeballed the whole thing so it's still not perfect by any means, but you get the point
 
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Took some of @SnugBoat 's ideas and expanded the color pallete to 14 colors.
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It really does make all the difference.
Instead of using it for dithering, i used it for details to make it look like more than just three balls.
[EDIT] @Mechantera
the tentacles are still there, just smaller. THe ones on the stinger however, are a lot bigger.
 
Ziggums said:
Took some of @SnugBoat 's ideas and expanded the color pallete to 14 colors.
wF2pFHD.png

It really does make all the difference.
Instead of using it for dithering, i used it for details to make it look like more than just three balls.
[EDIT] @Mechantera
the tentacles are still there, just smaller. THe ones on the stinger however, are a lot bigger.
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I meant I liked the longer tentacles (please don't take this out of context :p) on the boss.
Also, WHOA that looks nice.
 
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