Custom Sprites making/ inserting etc HOW TO

[Saigas]

K for K(C)ombat
M for Magic

I see now.  'Magician' isn't a class it's the category.  As is 'Fighter'.  Explains my previously mentioned horn, too.  It comes from the summoner sprite that has been stacked.

Your skills are quite daunting, Vanya.  I feel like a six year-old trying to drive in NASCAR.  I just can't do it like the rest of you full grown racers just yet.  But i'll get there.

[Vanya]

I haven't been at this for very long. I started fiddling with FFT about 8 months  ago I think. Although I have been dabbling with ROM hacking since about 2000 or so. But, my point is you'll get the hang of it.

[Saigas]

Only 8 months hacking FFT?  Wow, I hope I get good as fast as that.  ^_^

Thanks for the encouragement, too.  It definitely helps.

[Vanya]

=)

[Zozma]

no need to update shishi, just get all that stuff extracted thats it...

[Sen]

Shishi is still incomplete coz there's no monster type viewer.

[Zozma]

you know what would be a good feature? zoom for the previewer, and also a draw tool with the available 16 color palette... so you could for example, be drawing on the arm while its displayed over the body frame as it would be seen in the game... still thats probably impossible

[Xifanie]

Nah I'm sure it's doable; it's easy to code mspaint like programs.

And that kind of preview on edit would definitely push the spriting level higher like it did since the preview became available.

[Zozma]

that would be so nice, especially for me since i do all the actual pixel changes in mspaint lol... but having an edit mode on top of the preview mode would make it a snap to edit the arms which is by far the biggest time consumer right now and having the ability to zoom would really help since we have to soom all the way in most of the time when editting.

[Tersius]

I second the zoom idea.  That would help so much.  As it is I've been using the Windows Magnifier program (under accessibility), but that is very tedious.

I was intrigued by the kasanek and kasanem file discussion.  I thought that maybe if it is some kind of archive that the file names might be generic file names.  I looked up kasanek on an online Japanese to English dictionary (http://www.freedict.com/onldict/onldict.php) and found these two definitions:

kasanekakeru:     to lap, to overlap
kasanekotoba:     repeated word or phrase

This definitely lends some degree of validity to Vanya's compression theory.  Unfortunately I couldn't find anything on kasanem.  If I get a chance I'll ask my dad if he recognizes the words.

[Zozma]

the easiest one to recreate would be that priest stacked on the top with the dark hair, i can tell his robe isn't exactly the same as simon's, the funeral priest or zalmo, but it is very similar. and i already know how to find his original color palette.

[Vanya]

Interesting find, tersius! I didn't think to look up the words. It makes sense, too. The Japanese do like to contract word often. Like Pokemon = Pocket Monsters.

I really think we'll find some interesting things if we delve deeper into those two files.

[Zozma]

maybe when i finish recreating that priest ill just call him Kasane lol...
it would be cool if we could find out what the intended names of these unused portraits/sprites are...

[Zozma]

okay so here it is as it appears in unit.bin and ive discovered that the body is identical to zalmo's body making it even easier to recreate.

actually that priest body is identical for all of them just the colors make them seem to have pixel difference too.

[Cheetah]

Did you make that portrait?

[Zozma]

nope, its the matching portrait to this unit.bin sprite and you can find it in the worldface.bin

[Cheetah]

Interesting, I know I must have seen it then but just didn't bother to nab it. Silly me, I like the facial hair (he says while stroking his own goatee).

[Zozma]

i like the portrait better than the sprite tho

[Cheetah]

Oh yeah definitely will use the portrait, but the sprite is kind of meh just because there are several others just like it. Why on earth did you even post this stuff in this thread anyways?

[Zozma]

there was a bit of a conversation about kasanem and kasanek sprites... and i m certain these are part of it. and so i posted it here