Character template issue

[Silencher]

I'm having a small problem. I am trying to do a template for a character/battler for a tactical battle system. I'm not totally sure if its the script or the template, because I'm not good with either. I basically exported a standard character template, then exported tileset B (I'm using vx by the way). I cut and pasted the cross-shaped grave and placed it over each of the old character's sprite and deleted the remnants of the sprites. It looks pretty good, but I notice when I go into an actors data, the white outline that shows which type of character you want to show is too small. It only takes up like this amount of space:  [ ]  instead of the entire template like it normally would. In addition, the character/battler is not showing up when I enter battle. I was thinking it might be a script thing until I realized that the white outline box wasn't going around the whole template like it normally would.

How can I make it so that the template works? Here is an upload of the template I have:


http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4927/deadcharko2.png[/img]


just FYI, this is supposed to appear when characters or enemies die to serve as their 'downed' image.

 

[Totti]

First off, it definitely doesn't look lined up right.

Second, make sure you are setting transparencies correctly.

 

[Silencher]

Yeah they definitely aren't lined up right, but it only uses the 'down' facing so it doesn't really need to be because it doesn't move. I also set the transparency to only the 'white' portion, so I don't know if that is it..

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3619/examplexr7.jpg[/img]

Above is an example of what the template is doing.

Maybe what I should be asking if there is a certain way to do template's for sprites? and if so, is there somewhere I can download a blank character template from? I thought a while back there were blank templates for XP that had dotted lines or something around the individual blocks of each different character pose or something.

 

[Shin!]

Add a $ to the beginning of the file name.

 

[Silencher]

hmm, well, oddly enough that did work to let me surround the entire image, unfortunately it still isn't working so it must be a script issue then...

 

[Silencher]

sorry to double post, but could someone make me a template that's well, better.. than the one I made? I'm hoping to use it as if it were a character, so if you could do it on that kind of template, and it just needs the grave tile in the above post.

 

[Shin!]

hmm, well, oddly enough that did work to let me surround the entire image, unfortunately it still isn't working so it must be a script issue then...

There is nothing odd to it.
As you probrably noticed, sets of eight chars are the default type of chars for the VX. To use a single char set you need to add a $ to the beginning of the file name so that the program knows that the image is a single char set.

Well...
I doubt making a char template you help you out on this.
You should really just ask for a char of the grave... it's much easyer to do...

Here, I made a couple for you... see if it fits your needs:

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6436/grave01yo9.png[/img] http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6307/grave02rt0.png[/img]

 

[Onyx Tanuki]

Another solution might be to increase the size of the canvas. Multiply height by 2 and width by 4. If you do this, do not put $ in front of the filename. Maybe that'll work for you?

 

[Silencher]

thanks a lot for the sprite set, Shin!