Final Fantasy Hacktics

I don't mind critisism, but Kage is being downright rude imo.

I have plans to change up the hair, and ill keep fiddling with the face but its gonna take time, im still learning and i have little patience due to the pills im on.

So bare with me and well, don't take it personal if i snap at you for offering critisism. lol

I'm REALLY really fond of the black and red armored shrine knight outfit, But i am CONSTANTLY thinking oh how i can personalize it further.

One of the biggest problems i have with the shrine knight outfit is the front side view and how he looks fat, I've been thinking about changing up the top part of the shirt in general im just not sure where i want to take it yet.

And when i said offer ideas, i mean its hard for me sometimes to think straight so if you have some distinctive ideas you'd like to see, then im all ears and ill try my best.

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I'm kind of partial to the hatless one, but if i had to choose between the bandana and the Indie hat, id definately go with the indie hat. ( Mostly because Indiana is awesome :] )

Also on a side note, if you're going for a matching look you coil color her boots and gloves the same as the male version? dont matter to me either way.

I was mainly talking about the male sprite, I'll worry about the other more once the main one is somewhat finished because apparently it looks 'exactly like delita' but i dont see it.

Sorry im brooding, I didn't sleep well lol.

Not dissing you at all my friend, just wanted to relay my view and if you're perfectly happy with it thats fine with me, i just thought id throw that in there.

Here's an image or two just to sate your curiousity:





Pretty similar to the hood on the original white mage, but eh.
Do as you like, Like i said its an amazing sprite as is.

I meant the female monk, and well i dont see any of it any pages back though i could've missed it.

Quote from: "DeadManWalking"Here's the new Female Monk, I used the same colors as the Male Monk.

The first one is available i was hoping for the Red, Gold and Brown ones too, if its not too much trouble.

NVM Figured it out, sorry lol im slow.

Changing the face anymore would ruin it, So im not doing that because as far as im concerned it looks fine and doesnt resemble Delita all that much, if i really had to change anything it'd have to be the hair because those eyebrows are common among quite a few of the portraits in FFT, and they fit the idea of the character i was making perfectly, and the hair matches as well. Maybe ill fiddle with the eyes some more but the angle hes at makes it a bit difficult to use other ideas of the eyes, overall I am really attached to it in some ways so we'll see.

As for the Sprite hair I am going to change it but every direction i seem to take it ends up looking crappy so its going to take a while but for now its fine.

And how does the portrait look like Delita in 'every way' It's got a wider chin, forehead, different color hair, and outfitting, the hair is even longer.
I dunno, im at a loss of what to change without ruining it, and i have tried and all i end up doing is making it look worse or contorted.

I'm open to ideas, so maybe throwing some ideas would be a bit more helpful.

I've been in other situations where the japanese artists often have alot of their work locked behind passworded pages and whatnot.
I dunno if this is the case with these folks, but chances are if they DO have the sprites ( I don't think they'd make portraits and not sprites impo, but maybe they did. ) and theyre just in places we can't reach.

I know we are trying to communicate with them or something? Or is anyone actually making any progress? I DID speak with my japanese friend and he said his japanese is too rusty and he apologizes that he can't help.

I could try to find a fellow gamer whos japanese on one of the boards i follow but i dunno what luck I'd have.

Perhaps you guys could put up an add somewhere seeking a translator so we can speak with them?

Banon - Custom Sprite
BanonLodeKnight
95%
Knox (Mav for portrait)
Type 1

Deadman, send me that recolor of the monk would you?

This program is awesome, gonna take some getting use to though.

This sprite is looking pretty good, can't wait to see where you take it, its definately different and new and I think everyone likes to see something out of the box once and a while.

And as for the squall sprite, theres no sheet as far as i know but theres a un-formatted one in the japanese spiritng threads.

back on point, Great work Twinees!

These two white mages are really amazing, but and i hope thi sisnt taken wrong, the hoods feel a little detached to me, and look like white santa hats, perhaps maybe looking at the original whitemage females hood and going from there? or possibly using Garnet's white mage outfit from the movie scenes in FF9.
Mainly saying a bit pointy.

But no disrespect, amazing sprites !!!

I think it looks pretty good, might wanna work on some higher boots, and a bit darker, or a nice brown shade.

That or make that blueish pants part white like the above picture and change the shade of the boots.
I wanna say that the blue gloves and pants stick out a bit.

otherwise very awesome start, part of me also says you should make the thing sticking out of his neck white as well.

Thanks for your input i appreaciate every little bit of it.

I'll work on the eyebrows tonight.

And I'm not sure where im gonna go with the hair I'm having a little trouble with it but ill figure something out im sure.

update 1:
Fiddled with the eyebrows, didn't take long to come up with moot, i like them like that- if only i could somehow change them but keep them the same without it still resembling delita somewhat.

Also tried to customize the hair, every longhair variation i tried wasn't working, i tried redoing it from scratch but i always run into the issues with the colors there and it ends up looking pillowed or just jumbled and gross.

The only decent hair revision ive done is on that other sprite that was going to be him but it doesnt 'look' long, though its more on the grounds of looking better.
So ill gonna try it out realy quick and see if i can't finish it.

update 2:
Tried it, its not working for this sprite.
The biggest issue im hacing is that its supposed to be slicked back hair so it wont look fat in the back or be too big, it'd be kind of sticking to the back of his head and working in the lines is proving really difficult thats why i been using delita's head because its the only one closest to it.

update 3:
What's to say Banon can't be a distant cousin to Delita, or maybe a half brother? one he never knows about, and Banon doesnt know it either because they never cross paths. Either way, Banon is quite a bit older than Delita even without wrinkles added in, due to the length of hair and all.

Or we could as far as hes not related in the least and just has similar facial attributes like many people sometimes do.

I'm just spitballing here because I haven't the skill to rework the hair or the eyebrows on the portrait atm.
Feel free to spitball your own ideas.

Heres the updated sheet:



For right now, we'll call this v1.0 and if anyone wants a SPR version let me know ill upload it here.

Gonna fiddle with the chick one i was working on a little bit.

update 4:
And heres what i got, the palette is finally loaded onto it and whatnot, Now ill need your guys help to see where we should go from here. Someone said this was a fatal base, I take that as meaning it was a bad choice and if thats the case im open to ideas, I chose this one because the hair was closest to the potraits design and could probably be easily manipulated to match the portrait.

I'm thinking whatever we do we should make her outfit as different as possible to most sprites, there are few dark brunettes, but if you guys think we should go darker like for instance as was said to go black, then im all for it. We can either go with the artworks outfitting or make our own from bits and pieces of others.
I'm a bit fond of the idea of having a special character thats a thief, a little more powerful than a base thief, so a little more hp maybe a better move? But firsts things first i guess lol.

Looks really good mav, thanks.

Can you upload the palette for me or will it be in the image for me already so i can just load it into the character sheet?

And im thinking maybe i should redo the eyebrows so its that much more custom from being delita.

What did you guys think of the recolor i did?

I'm thinking of calling him Banon the Blood Knight ( or Lode Knight )

Updated the sprite a little, fixed the face, added the red collar, lightened the black outfit a bit.

:[ @ it being called a Delita clone lol

I'm trying to customize it little by little! I'm gonna redo the hair its just taking time to get it to the way i want it y'know?

My bad, I didn't realize it was a male. O_o

It looks a little feminime to me, but oh well lol. Well that kind of blows the whole idea haha.

What you think would look nice, guys, This isnt just for me lol.

I like what you did but it seems so colorless now, his hair i mean, maybe add a little more color back to it so it doesnt look so out of place?

Also working on another side project since that sprite is close to completion, All i really have left to do with it is to customize the hair which im gonna take my time with.

Now for the side project:



I wanted to put this beautiful portrait to use and i noticed the hair is close to the portrait, will need some tweaking, and the outfit as well but little by little with some help i think we can make something fun out of it.

Yeah thats a big improvement, Looks pretty rockin' now. Good work!

I figured it out, scrolled the forums until i found what i needed.

As for the sprites, Ramza is a simple recolor and refit based on Vanya's. I liked the color scheme as i noticed it when i replaced Ramza with Cloudv2 for a while, and during an event it showed Ramza in these colors so I decided to work on it.

Here we go:



Decided i may not even keep that outfitting, for my custom sprite as theres too much brown in it and it doesnt pool well ingame so much.

Ok so i decided to go with the other one i had worked on, and went with a drastic recolor and i think it came out pretty nicely.

I just need a small favor from anyone whos willing to do this for me, I'm having trouble making the portrait match, its gold where it should be red.
If someone could fix that up for me id be most appreaciative but im fairly certain its going to be a bit of a pain and hopefully you don't have to destroy the face to do it.

I don't much care if he keeps the styled outfit he has now so if you wanna work one up from scratch thats fine, whatever makes it easier.

shoot ill upload it later gotta fix something, and i redid my portrait so its not the one on my avatar anymore.

Made some nice improvements to the hair imo, but still working out some kinks. I noticed some weirdness in the outfitting too and im trying to work that out as well.

Also i have a problem, I replaced Reis with AuraDragon's Holyknight, and I used FFTpatcher to make it so she'd join right after an event that im right before, and when i went through th eevent i didnt get the join up screen like it should.
Is there something im not doing or is it even possible to do this?
Any info on that would be most appreaciated.

Also working on a recolored Ramza from chapter 2, with Cloudv2's palette- it looks okay but its got som ekinks, will post some pics of both tommorow.