Spriting Tutorial (Using Shishi's, etc.)

[LastingDawn]

Very nice! Always good to see more tutorials on the site.

[deadlyangel91792]

hey cid can you help me i keep trying to edit the unit.bin but it just gives me an error when i try to import advent cloud it says not a 16bit color map any suggestions???

[CidIII]

Does it have more or less than 16 color slots?

[deadlyangel91792]

EDIT:hey cid can you do your unit.bin tutorial again but with every detail you can possibly do please pretty please?????

[CidIII]

So what exactly is the error you are running into? I have little time these days, sorry I couldn't help you before.

[deadlyangel91792]

welll ok i cut the foward left facing image 24x40 but everytime i try to insert it with evgrp it keeps saying not a 16 color bitmap i can put a pallette in fine but not the image am i supposed to do anything special to get to image i just cut it out from the bmp image with all the characters armsand movements

[CidIII]

Hmm... I have a solution in mind, but there's one thing that Palette Program sucks, I posted one that was very good and useful awhile ago I lost it in the reformat, and I can't find it.

*EDIT* Found it http://www.alister.eu/palsuite/downloads.php download this one, that other one sucks.

Also, updated the guide.

**EDIT**

Holy shit I've just stumbled upon something magnificent, it could mean no more gay ass palette frustrations.

Zozma might already know about this though...

[jimmyjw88]

Well, I have the same problem before, just like you ^^
If you're using GIMP, all you have to do is click the image option, choose mode, then choose indexed...
Keep in mind that of course, that image needs to be in color of 16 and voila ^^

EDIT: Wait, are talking about face inserting? Or...?

[CidIII]

Does it matter? And, no.

[jimmyjw88]

Sorry. You're talking about the sprite unit right?
Well, do the same like what I said in above, of course, your palettes need to be correct and in 16 bits.

[CidIII]

Yep, we got it.

[deadlyangel91792]

thanks for the help cid a lot of people have been getting annoyed with me so im not gonna post for a while but again thanks

[CidIII]

Haha, it's okay dude, it's part of being a noob, we all go through it...

The only way to get past it is to learn and don't give up. So, I don't see why you should stop posting.

Also, I usually recommend that noobs stay way from the Spam section, until they are familiar with this site, otherwise they will get flamed a lot.

[jimmyjw88]

Yea. Noob is a stage that everyone will go through.
Take the initiative to learn and don't give up, like CidIII said.
Soon, you will get the idea and hand into these things ^^

[deadlyangel91792]

in that case one last noob question i fully inserted the unit.bin things for both advent cloud and newagrias and everything is fine for both characters but now im trying to replace malaks unit and face sprites for vincents and no matter what i do it gives me the error i managed to get the unit in i extracted the battle sheet of vincents from shishi,cut out the 24x40 bmp unit file,and edited it with gimp so the palette is in and i got it into the unit.bin i did THE EXACT SAME with the face except the dimensions were 32x48 but when i got to gimp then tried to change the mode for some reason it was already layered i clicked it again...nothing i changed it to rgb and then to layered then converted it like normal but now it wont insert into the wldfce.bin gives me the same evil error "not a 16 bit color map" at this point ive tried 16 times to convert vincents face no luck help please??? or can someone convert vincents face,ignis unit and face,and jennas unit and jennas face for me?

[jimmyjw88]

Here, I've done it for you

EDIT: Sorry cause use photobucket. Zodiac disable bmp attachments.
Anyway, you just have to convert these files into bmp format and you're good to go ^^

[deadlyangel91792]

i love you jimmy besides you and cid everyone else on heres been an ass lol you guys rock but they wont work when i convert them can you pm me a link instead???

EDIT Never mind i got them working thx you rock man

[jimmyjw88]

My pleasure ^^
You have trouble on vincent face because it only have 13 colours. That's why you have error when you convert it to 16bits bmp ^^

[Gallion-Beast]

Thanks a tonne for the guide. Editing the unit.bin and wldface.bin works perfectly on PSP as long as you know how to extract and reinsert them.

[jimmyjw88]

Ooo....a Claymore fan? ^^
Nice.
The avatar is the best claymore in the entire squad. Haha