Zoramine's Bucket Of Many Random Things

[ZoramineFae]

I’ll keep that in mind for her and I’ll see what I can do for the Leila splice. Above everyone else I want to make sure she’s high quality.

Speaking of portraits that shouldn’t be high quality here’s another sprite, loosely based off my party’s cleric in my D&D session. I say loosely in the most broad term because I know extremely little about the character because i peewee brain who only thinks in sprites, Sprite soda and Pokemon.

If there was a definition of ‘pure unbridled chaos,’ it’d go to them.

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Post Zora edit because despite the fact it’s later at night, I was even more tired earlier.

I’m doing lots of portraits for the next bit, all splices, because I want to improve my expertise than just ‘oh I’m the Map guy who made animations and portraits in the past’. I want to be the guy y’all can ask questions about anything to, except ASM and events bc im bad at that.

[Zoisite]

It’s good to expand your horizons and learn new things.

[ZoramineFae]

Generic-y portrait made with a shit ton of hairs (Marisa, Syrene, Lute, iirc Farina, a portrait from one of the Mugging Blitzes which was also used for the head), fur from another mugging blitz sprite and then a jacket from my namesake portrait. Originally made for a friend at mention that he didn’t have a reference for his OC. Had a bunch of edits on top of this, but since I had this base, well, might as well use it.

I know that I need antialiasing on the skin near the ear, but besides that, I think she’s set!

And she’s cute. Thats the most important bit.

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Next two are still work in progress and still very much so resemble the original (one by design, the other because my DM still hasn’t fuckin told me if the character has longer or shorter hair)

Meet Ford. With Forde’s armor. Was a test to see just how much I could mess with normal armor and make it work; most of the shiny bits and red armor was actually gerik’s normal armor but tinted red with a shiny effect on the rims, only the near pauldron is Forde’s. Also, scarless and capless Gerik is infinitely bothersome to me, like normal eye Oswin.

One I’m still working on right now (I got this done maybe 30-40 minutes ago). Mouth-covering cloak + wrapping over head on Astore. This one’s based on a D&D Rogue that left my party a few months back; he let me use his character as a reference except I never actually got what hair color he had and its length. DM still hasn’t gotten back to me on that.

I’ll have another comparison shot after I can get the Astore splice finished, since the Gerik one is practically done. I’m really happy with how these are turning out.

Oh, I’ll probably make most of these free to use/edit/whatever at some point. I’m not terribly attached to most. [9/12/2020] Nah, these aren’t free to use free to edit, but if you ask me I’ll almost certainly say yes after knowing what you’re doing with it.

[ZoramineFae]

This marks the point where my sanity has officially reached the negatives tonight as I’ve lost my mind trying to get these fucking trees to work holy ghdnfjsfrngijrvndjnuvi gfnrdshngurhnuvjerdhnguhndrtrdhgrubgtrhuejwqbguoerwhbgnf

I’ve basically got all of the visual aspects of this tileset done and oh my god have i exhausted myself making the entire rest of it in one night from my last post on it. I don’t have an immediate estimate on when exactly this will be available, but I assure you that it’ll be soon. If I can keep sane.

Big things with this tileset are…

• inclusion of more floor tiles with their shadow variations, sourced directly from the Castle tileset

• a darker green grass color that both molds into road/paths a lot smoother but also makes…

• FORESTS. The original forests are in tact for those of you sadists who actually like those trees, but there’s also my Fields tileset’s forests and thickets (thanks Flasuban iirc for that).

• a raw copy of all of the important Peak tiles transferred 1 to 1 from my Fields tileset (all the other pieces are also there, but I just didnt have the energy today to finish putting them up/i dont use many more than this). There’s some hanging on the shadow side bits I forgot but that’ll be added by the time this is proper released.

• H O U S E S. Whole reason I even started this was to shove buildings into the Fort tileset and to possibly add my peaks to create Thracia maps in GBAFE even better. Every important building is here. I know that space CAN be saved on it but I really could care less, I’ve got so much stuff in here as is.

I also had to, uh, shift half of the tiles around to make room lmao

All palettes normally in FE8 are bork’d and will remain that way thanks to me using the tool that Vesly brought up to start with. I’m intending to find out a good setup for alternate palettes and even getting the carpet back itll be disappointing

BUT THAT’S ALL LATER BECAUSE ITS 12:50 AM AND I AM ABOUT TO COLLAPSE

[ZoramineFae]

Progress. Added the remainder of the important houses and condensed every one of them, then added all the floor tiles I’ll need, and anyone should need.

[ZoramineFae]

Aight, status update because I feel like it. Also, a plug for My Updated Fort tileset. It’ll be added to my compendium all the way up above in a bit. Kinda my excuse to go on ahead with this post.

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I’m currently in burnout. I want to do more cool stuff but my quality kinda hit a brick wall after exhausting myself so hard. Working on those mountains was a bitch and I spent about the past month working up the courage to do it again after I found out Vesly’s post of the importing tool. That compounded on top of just running out of energy for normal ol’ mapping.

The entirety of that tileset was an experiment to see what I could accomplish with it which quickly spiraled into me going waaaaaaaaaay too far on it just to have a product I was happy with. The Peaks imported fine in the object image but recreating them reminded me why I don’t do tilesets anymore - repetition makes me tired as all hell. The trees taking forever also didn’t help, as did setting up the entirety of that terrain in two days.

The portraits above are for a project I’m working on right now that I’m keeping mostly quiet on, I want it to be as good as I can get when I decide to have others seriously look at it. It was also another attempt to at least somewhat past burnout and damn did it help. Aaaaand look where I went right afterwards.

Does this mean that you won’t hear from me? No, I like looking at stuff. Helps me get ideas.
Does this mean that I’ll stop making funny things? Nah, I can’t stop myself if I get a concept I like.

But I need a break and I might forcibly impose it upon myself and return with a hodgepodge of funny things afterwards.
Idk. I’ll figure that out when I get there.

College starting up also is a thing, so I’ll have longer times in-between posts from this point for a bit as I don’t want to screw this year up.

Have a good day, y’all.

[ZoramineFae]

Look at that! Another portrait. This time, it’s a character that I honestly had 0 fucking clue how to do. Initially she started as an Igrene splice which actually worked pretty well for what I wanted, but since I was already redoing all of my other simple color swaps I thought it’d be worth it to keep tooling with this. Scarf was partially stolen from Eliwood then modified a bit, armor was a bunch of sources that I can’t remember but includes Canas’s robe and Wil’s shoulderpad. Minimug isnt perfect but I’m bad at that, and my usual method resulted in what’s there now.

…and with that…

Lookatthat. A bunch o’ portraits. All of them are splices because I’m extremely bad at making my own stuff, but I’m happy with all of them. I don’t think I’ve shown a few here before, so here’s your chance to view them all.

And there’s green Innes but atm he doesnt have a name or a personality so I could care less lmao, i’ve got more pressing matters for me.

There’s a few pressing issues with these, such as the Garcia splice’s cheek scar disappearing in the eye frames, the Leila splice needs moth move frames, the Rebecca splice having funky eye shading in blink frames and so on, but overall I think as someone who was way too afraid to do portraits before this has been a fun venture into something that isn’t as painful as tileset making.

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Another side venture into the two portraits I’ve never elaborated on!

Meet Gala! He’s my oldest true splice and god do I love him. He was originally made for a Twitch streamer out of friendship in his image (Thanks Dave!) and uses Douglas’s armor and Garcia’s thicc neck. Despite being my oldest splice, I’m still really happy with him and I intend to further distinguish between him and Garcia soon once I’m more confident with modifying the face.

And meet Alice! She’s my oldest splice and the hoodie is my favorite thing. Original was made by me, but Wan iirc helped a ton with the hood and she’s been my posterchild for my account for a while now ever since adding an icon. However, she’s originally created for my namesake character, Zoramine Fae, but has been repurposed here because I love the coat n hoodie.

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These all are used in an upcoming project maybe. I’ve hinted at it before, but it’s still work in progress as I broke half of my item table, screwed up a bunch of animations then realized that I overwrote a bunch more data that shouldn’t be overwritten for classes. Whoops.

For names of them (in order):
Lin, Elyva, Christine, Al, Fergus, Alice, Rei, Lomenaro
Phoenica, Saul, Ford, Crassius, Ariel, generic innes recolor, Gala

Names kinda are iffy for me, I’m bad at words tbh

how do i end posts

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EDIT BECAUSE I FORGOT LMAO IM DUMB

I’ll make all of these aside from Gala and Alice F2U and F2E at some point, even if they’re just splices. The unnamed villager girl from Aug 17th will also not be made F2U and F2E as it was made for a friend and will be used by me as I was the one who made her. The generic Soldier will join the larger group that can be used.

[9/12/2020] All portraits are requiring you to get explicit permission to use and edit. I will want to know what you’re using it for. However, you’ll almost always get a ‘sure go ahead’ for anything that isn’t Beruka, Alice or Gala.

[ZoramineFae]

My mostly break continues with me experimenting with something that requires minimal thought but lots of payout. Background CG for cutscenes!

Many of these are raw imports from FGO’s assets but two are recolors of WAve CG. Credit WAve and me for the recolors labeled as such in the dropbox, while Aniplex/DelightWorks and me for the original + import.

All are F2U/F2E, I don’t care what you do with them after this. Just be sure to keep credit to WAve if you use either of those two.

FGO and WAve CG images

Some of the best of the FGO batches:

And the two WAve ones.

I’ll have this entire thing added to my top post within a day. Look forward to seeing it up there!

[ZoramineFae]

Took this request for Pik before I went on break and didnt do anything about it till two days ago lmao, but here’s a nice mountain climbing map.

[ZoramineFae]

Taking this one slow, but Wasspix inspired me. WIP.

Will be releasing a mapping dump soon with 30+ maps.

Also am working on trying to make a Beruka mug because shes the fucking best

[yikes]

Also am working on trying to make a Beruka mug because shes the fucking best

yooooooo there aren’t any out there rn so that’d be nice af

[ZoramineFae]

Map finished for fun. Amost exclusively an aesthetics map (if you want to make your players hate you sure it is technically playable). It’ll get released in my mapping dump later.

Progress on Beruka, at least with her scarf ready. She’s being a nightmare to set up.

[ZoramineFae]

pls read full post, I’m updating my status on using portraits here and will make it apparent above!

[Here was an image of Beruka, but it had the frames. Removed bc you have to ask before using. Scroll to first post to see her.]

Pre happiness post, thanks to my friend Lyna for helping me realize the eyes were really off, Wan for point out a bunch of issues early and late into development, and Obsidian for helping massively with the armor.

Oh hey look its the best character in Fates besides Forrest don’t @ me or i’ll end you

Really though, for a splice that took pretty much the entirety of today to figure out how the hell to make it work, I’m really happy with this one! You almost can’t tell who I stole everything from (props to you if you can figure it all out, beyond my extra tooling I did afterwards.

She’d be free to use with credit, but because I’m way too proud of her, ask before using. If you see anyone use her without my explicit permission, please let me know.

I’ll also be setting all of my other portraits as requiring to get permission before use and making that obvious in my top post as well as my previous posts about portraits. However, most of the other splices I’m more willing to let you use and edit if I know what you’re doing with it. If I have blocked you on discord, the main way to contact me (Zoramine Fae#2325), then I’m not interested in you touching my stuff.

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Don’t ask to splice her cloth, though, as that’s kinda useless because I’m just gonna dump a bunch of f2u f2e spliced clothing that my cast uses.

Beruka’s cloth, scrapped from a ton of sources (Canas, Beyard, Klimt, Saul, etc). Thanks goes to Wan for pointing out Klimt despite the fact he wasn’t in the repo.

My Ewan splice’s clothes. I can’t remember where I got the bottom of his clothes from, but the top… Was Erk and Lucius. I believe.

Phoenica, the Serra splice’s clothes. I can’t remember where these are from, but I think the belt was a boss of FE7’s. Might actually have been Pent.

Fergus, my Oswin splice’s armor and cloth, pieced from Ephraim, Gerik and Caryle. I’m really proud of this one for how simplistic it was and how nice it looks.

[ZoramineFae]

Quick splice made in ~30 minutes for Wasspix. Not free to use free to edit atm, he’s taking some time to decide. I’ll make it a point to update this later once he decides.

And I’ve added sideways stairs to this tileset (did you know they don’t exist on the normal, along with regular stairs? Weird.) I’ll update my Village tileset with an updated Mapchip Config and Object Image soon, so please look forward to it!

[ZoramineFae]

Update for the Fort tileset with a ton of cliffs, better mountains and fence tiles. Will be uploaded momentarily to that thread.

[ZoramineFae]

Work in progress Beruka halfbody mug. Thanks to Obsidian for helping a ton with this sprite from the original’s armor to this vers’s armor, and the crew in the Spritans room for reminding me that I’m garbage at cloth shading.

[ZoramineFae]

Thanks to Obsidian for further help, Wan for help with finding tons of issues, etc. Also props to my friend lyna for making note of some armor funniness that I couldn’t really fix till after Obsidian helped.

Beruka halfbody! Best Fates girl, don’t @ me. I was too intimidated from trying portraits not even two months ago, and here I am now making my own custom halfbody.

Sprite is not F2U F2E. She will not be in her current state. You can feel free to ask, I’ll deny you. Will have it put into the armor/cloth collection if I can get it.

[ZoramineFae]

I kinda realized I’ve not made an actual post about it in a while, but all of my maps are free to take and use however you want. With credit.

Now, most people would just assume I only allow taking and using the entire map, because I worked hard on every section of it. Nah fam, use whatever tiny section you want.

If that means you want a 15x10 cutscene map, go ahead! Grab a snippit of any of my maps that interest you and go ham, just always credit who deserves it me

[ZoramineFae]

Ported the last two animations for the Ephraim repack/recolor into a female model, so now it’s possible to make an Ephraim lord animation of some sort of dismounted Master Knight wielding everything in the universe. I guess.

Ephraim Lord (F) (Crossbow)

Ephraim Lord (F) (Rapier)

Both are also listed in the Graphics Repository thread.

DerTheVaporeon/Pik are credited under the Ephraim repack, so it’s both I’ll credit for the originals.

[ZoramineFae]

What’s this mysterious new building that has appeared?! And it’s a seizable gate?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!1?!!2?!

Thracian mansion is now ported into GBAFE! This means that you can now probably recreate a majority of Thracia’s early game maps that don’t involve water in this tileset. Seizable gates also means this tileset can now be used to make seizable villages! Made partially at request for someone else, although not specifically for this tileset.

This is also an excuse for me to fix the annoying bits surrounding the vendor, armory and arena normally, making it look far cleaner overall.