MMV Halloween 2022 - Heatwave by skhsato123 & volzzilla released

Good spriting

What's improved with this character is that atleast the specials and hyper control triggers are now in the common triggers now and not some random buttons = hypers/specials. So Atleast that part is kinda fixed from your works, first time.

The most common problem that are seen in your characters are that they tend to have misaligned sprites, so the best move to do is simply use OnionSkin in Fighter Factory.

(In my FF3 it can be found at the lower left)

Now first thing to align is the stance, you must make sure it is at the center by using the cross as a guide.

The red arrow indicates where each sprite's feet should be aligned horizontally.

Compare it to where yours are aligned.


Now that the stance is aligned then that's where the OnionSkin comes in.

(Mandarin's 1st sprite in doing low punch)
See that his left foot is still aligned where his stance is shown from behind as his right foot steps forward.

With this short guide I hope to see it improve your future projects

Great addition for collection. Thanks

Great Work Volzzila
Nice see your relased great chars again

ok the char need fixed! my palettes no working!!

candido159 wrote:

What's improved with this character is that atleast the specials and hyper control triggers are now in the common triggers now and not some random buttons = hypers/specials. So Atleast that part is kinda fixed from your works, first time.

The most common problem that are seen in your characters are that they tend to have misaligned sprites, so the best move to do is simply use OnionSkin in Fighter Factory.

(In my FF3 it can be found at the lower left)

Now first thing to align is the stance, you must make sure it is at the center by using the cross as a guide.

The red arrow indicates where each sprite's feet should be aligned horizontally.

Compare it to where yours are aligned.


Now that the stance is aligned then that's where the OnionSkin comes in.

(Mandarin's 1st sprite in doing low punch)
See that his left foot is still aligned where his stance is shown from behind as his right foot steps forward.

With this short guide I hope to see it improve your future projects

Great addition for collection. Thanks

Ah, finally, you can practically and technically elaborate what I generally feel. Thank you. Your guide definitely also helps me (and hopefully others on similar zero- or nearly-zero-skill level as me in terms of coding).

Yes, Yes, Yesssssssss...
My character so waited is released.
 SUPER.
Thanks

the walk was alot worse before. i tried to align, but only did so by eye since never done aligning before (the other things i aligned worked out better)

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@candido

so center each sprite with the X, making sure the horizontal piece is even with the foot placement?

and then each animation, onion skin, align following sprites of said animation starting sprites, repeat?

volzzilla wrote:

the walk was alot worse before. i tried to align, but only did so by eye since never done aligning before (the other things i aligned worked out better)

I see, though you needed to align the sff file than doing it in animation in which you did.

volzzilla wrote:

so center each sprite with the X, making sure the horizontal piece is even with the foot placement?

Yes the foot is what must be in those specific horizontal line to make the character's shadow not float or overlap.

volzzilla wrote:

and then each animation, onion skin, align following sprites of said animation starting sprites, repeat?

Yes. Though each sprite walk is different, some leans forward, some leans backwards, some just straightens up.
In these cases you'd still have to look at the main stance first and look where the heads align.
Examples:

This sprite straightens up so it would make sense to back his head a bit while keeping the foot in the right horizontal line.


And so you'd have to make the specific head align in their vertical position.


But not all chars requires their head to stay in the same vertical position like loganir's chars because they smoothen up their sprites to have better motion and so does not require to be align the same vertical head position.



These heads leans back because his sprite leans back.


This head leans forward because his sprites does too.

Last note:
If the upper foot that is in the horizontal line lifts up then you'd have to follow the alignment of the other foot of the previous walk sprite even if it is not in the line that was designated.


I hope these helps

Very well! Thanks. A job with lots of growth potential

¡Muy bien! Gracias. Un trabajo con muchas posibilidades de crecimiento

sorry, i dont know how to fix the sprites for custom palettes to work. but i will attempt in the future for the alignments via what candido said

volzzilla wrote:

sorry, i dont know how to fix the sprites for custom palettes to work. but i will attempt in the future for the alignments via what candido said

Well I'm actually giving guide for @skhsato123 because all of us can see that his character suffers with alignment and are always pointed out but never improved.
Well atleast now maybe his future projects might have proper alignment if he takes my guide.

I made a quick patch to fix the palettes issue, however the throw animation (group 801) has a different colour scheme so that won't change.

www.mediafire.com/file/9wbh2yslft54klz/Heatwave.sff/file

The character looks promising. Very good sprites. I liked the gameplay. I think I found a favorite this year.

Volzilla i upadate a fix for Heatman, added new sounds, some sfx and reorganized the sprites, I saw that you asked in the other topic, gave an update, and put Shining portrait.  





www.mediafire.com/file/dw6z0cggioxsx9e/Heatwave.rar/file

I put firestorm and Heatwave on the !mugen.archive! website server for backup ok
then you and skhsato123 test and see if you want to update the version of the forum ok