Salad Viking wrote:You do realize that if we keep doing this to every hi-res sprite project thread, none of them will ever be released, right? You can't expect someone to replace hundreds of sprites with god-tier professional-quality sprites.
There goes the cold truth. This is Doom, the artistic requirements shouldn't be God/Top/Hightiernamegoeshere-tier when it comes to stuff like this. I'm not saying that accepting junk should be accepted though.
What I'm doing is trying to make some good-looking replacements for HQ4x sprites, as HQx wasn't made for sprites like DOOM's. But for (very)low-res pixel art/sprites. And as far as my personal judgement goes, I'd use my own sprites any day over HQ2x doom sprites. And again, this is DOOM - setting up a big team of GREAT artists is (next-to) impossible, as finding those artists is one hard task. Getting them to work and FINISH the sprites they were set to do, is a whole different story. (Sadly, the DHTP is an example of this, both in terms of requirements and artist problems.)
Not to mention, the 'team' we are at the moment, is me and Mtzfire. Both of us don't possess incredible image-editing software skills, and I don't have good artistic skills in general.
When we feel like it (tm) also makes a big difference, as unlike the situation at SF:HD, we aren't some big artist company. That
(most likely - no) have a lot of great artists, that have the PAID JOB of making those things. We make this in our spare time, and I hardly find time to work on this. As I both do some RL things, browse forums, and more forums. Play Skulltag a lot, and more.
And I'm the only one producing sets of sprites at the moment, so the stuff about monsters is pretty much a solo project. Which is one of my excuses for not spending days on the sprites. The second one is that I plan on making
other monsters after the demon, so instead of having you wait months/years on a release, it'll probably be some months before I release a full demon set.. If I get myself to making the sprites, of course. (See Skulltag)
So yeah, this is DOOM. Either we do it, do it partially - or leave it as an unfinished nightmare for everyone that looked forward to it. (ZTerrainV2, and other things like that falls under the last category.)
