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KC11
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12/8/2009 | |
Hello all. I am announcing the suggestion of a project.
When norn breeds are created, as is the case across all four games, their sprites are merely resized according to their age. Of course, most real animals do not age in this manner. Babies have large eyes, teens are gawky, ect.
So, armed with Paint.net and Embri's "Laws of Cuteness", I've made up some basic looks for the head of the baby/child, adolescent, and teen stages of the male fallow norn:
http://img704.imageshack.us/g/adolecentnorn.jpg/
This is turning out a lot more difficult than I thought, as most first time sprite builders have said for all the time of creatures modding.
So, I've decided to gather some armed forces.
My goal is to create different baby, adolescent, and teen stages for all the main breeds. This includes:
Fallow
Harlequin
Chichi
Magma
Siamese
Zebra
Astro
Bengal*
Bruin*
Civit*
Toxic**
Treehugger**
Hardman**
Bondi**
*I'm not sure if C3 breeds count as "nonfree" breeds, please someone clarify this.
**Of course, these are shop breeds, so there's probably issues doing and releasing sprites for these. You gotta admit though, what with the current status of the shop, these might as well just be declared free breeds at this point, since there's no other way anyone's ever going to get them anymore. Agents will not be included with the breeds, but ultimately this is not for me to decide.
What I am going to need are:
Several spriters. You don't need to be great with sprites, all you need is photoshop or some other free photomanipulation program (I highly recommend Paint.Net, as it has many of the same functions as photoshop, or at least the functions best for this project) I also suggest you refer to Embri's "Laws of Cuteness" article, here: http://sites.google.com/site/embrigraymare/editorial
Cleanupers: People meant to come in and clean up the sprites. I will be doing primary duty on this (course, I'm going to try and do a bit of everything) but seeing as there's going to be hundreds of sprites to go through, I can't be the only one.
Betatesters: Once we have all the sprites ready to go, we're going to need some betatesters to make sure everything's working properly, all the norns look halfway decent, and interbreedings between normal norns aren't awkward.
Genetisist?: I was considering doing detailed, differing genetics for these breeds (Based on the CFE genome). But this isn't necessary.
These norn breeds will go in the same slot as their normal counterparts, overwriting the old norns.
And in case you don't know, you will need Spritebuilder in order to view norn sprites. If you cannot download/are confused by spritebuilder, I'll be happy to send you a picture of all the sprites required.
I'd like there to be one spriter per breed, but if you think you're man enough to handle it, feel free to take on more than one.
Slots are:
Fallow
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Harlequin
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Chichi
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Magma
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Siamese
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Zebra
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Astro
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Bengal*
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Bruin*
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Civit*
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Toxic**
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Treehugger**
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Hardman**
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Bondi**
-Baby
-Adolescent
-Youth
Of course, with this in context, it might be easier for an entire team to work on each breed down the list, one at a time.
Edits required:
Wider eyes
Larger ears
Larger head
smaller lower jaw
shorter arms
shorter legs
smaller toes
smaller hands
shorter hair
with the adolescent/teen norns containing awkward combinations between these traits and adult traits, with teen norns being less awkward than adolescents.
If this takes off well enough, I might start making conception sprites for ettins/grendels (again, I don't know if these are considered "nonfree" breeds)
Do not upset the ugly worm, lest it be a dragon in disguise. (>oo)>
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scoota94
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12/14/2009 | |
I have not played creatures 3 much but I am really into genetics on C2. Genetics on C3 would not be much different and I could learn more about them. So if you would like a genetisist I would not mind helping out. I could also help out with Sprites but I am not particularily good. Send me a message if you want me to help. P.S. I have exams coming up so I might be restricted to weekends but I'll try my best. I was also wondering if you are considering doing this project on C2?
EDIT:Exams are now over! Also I wouldn't mind doing other things! I have not helped anyone in a project yet!
EDIT2: I have recently learned how to set up sprite files and Att files so I could also help with that
BTW is this project cancelled?
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