[WIP]4xHi-res Sprites... and 4xHD?

[cq75]

Chex quest is kind of anime style...

I'm going to go into 3d models eventually, I was thinking of starting with the chex quy as my first real model, I might do a few doom models after that for practice.

[Spleen]

Chex quest is kind of anime style...

Umm.. I meant more in the style of Final Fantasy 6 or Ragnarok Online.

[NeuralStunner]

[quote="cq75"]I'm going to go into 3d models eventually, I was thinking Whatever you do, do not ignore the sprites' proportions. Some of the DooM models I've seen are terribly disproportionate to the point of looking silly.

[CaptainToenail]

Um yeah, Chex Quest is about as anime as Scooby Doo.

Has anyone considered making *real* models and photographing them, like id originally did? Maybe you could pay one of those 'custom action-figure' dweebs to construct them?

[Caligari87]

I have, for a horror project I'll probably never finish. If I ever get around to actually making said model, I'll be sure to post it

[phi108]

Gregor Punchatz said on the ZBrush forums that he still has the spider mastermind. He might be willing to take pictures of 16 angles at high resolution... (and of course vertical above and below angles for that extra realism when looking down at it).

[Salad Viking]

Strife had a unique hand-drawn style and plenty of hand-drawn artwork, but that seems to be the closest Doom has gotten to seeing Japanese art. I don't care much for Asian art styles. I prefer western art.

[ShadesMaster]

Not a bad method... not bad at all!!!!

[Pandut]

I followed your little video tut on how to make HD sprites, for something I'm working on that needs a little polishing due to horrendous speckling. However, when I re-convert it to the Doom palette, the image creates a black background whenever I try to upload into my mod via Slumped. Not sure if it's the Wad editor I'm using or if I'm just doing it wrong. I didn't watch your video all the way through, so I won't be surprised if you already covered that issue XD or if it was answered in the comments section on this thread, I have a tendency to overlook thing >_<.

I have to say, the work you've accomplished is incredible, however how would you go about exporting these into doom? Usually when I have a good graphic/sprite and convert it using the Doom palette (I have no idea how to save/get palette's for say, Heretic or Strife) the color scheme gets messed up so I have to go through every single frame and work out the color issues which takes quite a bit and the overall quality suffers.

Overall, good luck on this mod. It looks awesome, mate!

EDIT: Dammit, just saw that you noted to not ask you about the matter here. Urgh .

[TheMistress]

I followed your little video tut on how to make HD sprites, for something I'm working on that needs a little polishing due to horrendous speckling. However, when I re-convert it to the Doom palette, the image creates a black background whenever I try to upload into my mod via Slumped. Not sure if it's the Wad editor I'm using or if I'm just doing it wrong. I didn't watch your video all the way through, so I won't be surprised if you already covered that issue XD or if it was answered in the comments section on this thread, I have a tendency to overlook thing >_<.

I have to say, the work you've accomplished is incredible, however how would you go about exporting these into doom? Usually when I have a good graphic/sprite and convert it using the Doom palette (I have no idea how to save/get palette's for say, Heretic or Strife) the color scheme gets messed up so I have to go through every single frame and work out the color issues which takes quite a bit and the overall quality suffers.

Overall, good luck on this mod. It looks awesome, mate!

You first need to make it transparent, If i'm right its cyan wich is doom's transparant color, If i remember well someone once told me XWE automaticly made it transparent.

[NeuralStunner]

If i'm right its cyan wich is doom's transparant color

Better get your flak jacket on.

DooM's palette has no transparent color. Transparency is achieved literally by lack of pixels.

If i remember well someone once told me XWE automaticly made it transparent.

This is true however, as XWE makes a few dumb assumptions.

[Shadelight]

You first need to make it transparent, If i'm right its cyan wich is doom's transparant color, If i remember well someone once told me XWE automaticly made it transparent.

No. We are not having another one of these arguments.

Edit: Arrrgh, ninja'd.

[CO2]

DooM's palette has no transparent color.

This also means flats cannot have "holes" in them.

[Pandut]

Alright, I think I got a way to fix it. Make the smudge adjustments, then flatten the image, that gets rid of the transparent background but also rectifies any dead/transparent pixels, then add the image to Alpha Channel and blammo -- No more black background. It's working so far, so heres to hoping.

[Gez]

If i remember well someone once told me XWE automaticly made it transparent.

This is true however, as XWE makes a few dumb assumptions.

Slumped too; which is why I encourage everyone who uses it to upgrade to Slade 3. It's the new Slumped, made by the same guy, except it's less buggy and all-around better.