Hey, everyone. I have a big and very cool addition to the repo today.
There is now a v3 of the Portrait Creator!
Now, this new version has quite a lot of improvements. It’s still not a great tool for actually making sprites, but at the very least Vale has implemented a bunch of really important improvements.
You can download the v3 Creator here, just get the zip file:
- Rewritten in Scala
- Piece Scaling
- Piece Rotation
- Piece Offsets reworked to always cover full area
- Piece Dropdowns reworked to show just the necessary info, and sorted alphabetically
- Piece Select-By-Preview rights-side panel
- Piece Border Color Selection
- Prefab color panels (with unique one for skin)
- Full display of palettes’ shades
- Full control over each shade in a palette
- Prefab Palettes (again with unique for skin)
- “Anti-Aliasing” of where the hair meets the face
- Unique colors in use counter
- Export of GBA compatible size png
The most important additions are the ‘prefab’ colors, especially for skin and hair and armor. Remember those zombie abominations newbie spriters would spit out and horrify the poor denizens of Spritans? No more! Now the tool comes with colors taken from Blade’s Hair image and skin color references.
We also used Feier’s hair as useful reference points.
So, altogether, the character creator is a lot more usable! Download it through the links above or by looking in the Portrait Repo’s assistive Creator folders.
Any comments or criticism, please direct it to the Repo’s discord for Vale to see, or put it in the Repo Discussion Thread.