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Samurai Ragnarok

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Reverie's Eclipse

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First I wanted to commend you on this project, as it's likely the most impressive (in terms of personal appeal) I've seen to date: RPG's, samurai's, cel-shaded artwork... all things I happen to like alot. As it's been a long while since I've been back to these forums, please forgive me ahead of time if the questions I am about to ask seem... well, stupid (in being frank); but I was curious:

Are the character sprite templates available to just anyone - say more for someone wanting to contribute, rather than use for themselves or their own project(s)?...

Or are they being kept under wraps for the sake of exclusivity?

If so... I'd like to express a certain... newfound... interest...

EDIT:

This is the only sprite work I've ever done (aside from some original stuff way back in high school, so I get the concept of it), and it's an edit:

http://img278.imageshack.us/img278/9995 ... e2x6br.jpg[/img]

And here you'll see my affinity to samurai-esque characters, in a hand drawn sketch I once uploaded to the boards long ago:

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5723/s ... ize3or.png[/img]

Just a thought... :smile:
 

Darksydaz

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well, i would never stop someone from contributing more... but i usually encourage people to join Heaven's Cloud to help, although we will accept outside help with Heaven's Cloud... um... it depends what you wish to contribute... i would never limit anyone or stop anyone from contributing or donating resources... :)

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oh yeah, you draw really well... and you can do some edits pretty well... would you like to join heaven's cloud? lol
 

Darksydaz

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For those that don't know... this is Katelina.. She's a Ninja from the Kitsune Toukon Clan (fox fighting spirit)
She's a Ninja... thus i wanted to make her actions seem ninja like... After playing Naruto / Bloody Roar (bakuryu)/ Soul Calibur (Taki) and Tenchu.. I've tried to replicate her actions in this character set... it's still not done  but i'm showing more improvements on her...

Slowed down (to get a better crit and critique...)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/ ... ilena2.gif[/img]

Actual Speed... with the new spell casting animation...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/ ... ena2-1.gif[/img]

1.)Standing pose (ready animation)
2.)Use Item (She reaches into her unseen bag and throws a item into the air)
3.)Attack Evasion (Alot of ninjas i see turn into/ replace themselves with logs when they vanish, i felt this was a good attack evasion animation that would reflect her ninja like skills)
4.)Damage Animation (Since she's so lightweight, almost every attack will send her flying, but she catches herself and gets back into battle formation
5.)Ready Stance (again)
6.)Heavy Damage/ Knockout (A powerful attack that lifts Katilena off of her feet, she cannot regain balance and is knocked down, the last frame of this animation is the dead animation....)
7.)Dead (see above...)
8.)Getting up animation (i have some quirks about this animation specifically, but she gets up and then spins back to her ready position..)
9.)Ready Stance (yet, another one...)
10.) Spell Casting (i had to decide to go with either the hand seals that i see alot of ninjas use (not only just naruto) or use the full range arm movement spell casting that Sign Weaving uses... well i wanted Ninjutsu to have it's own unique feature in this world... so instead of writing out the letters like sign weaving... Katelina will do complex hand signs and formations to cast her "spells"

I hope that demystifies Katelina and her actions a little bit... please leave crits and critiques... they are always helpful... :)
 

GUNJaH

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About the log transformation, she doesn't look like replacing herself with a log, it kinda looks like she became invisible and then the log just appeared. I know what you meant by what you said. Maybe a quick fade in fade out or a very quick disappearance with little black lines should do it, then comes the log. As for the rest, it all looks great.
 

Darksydaz

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/ ... lina-2.gif[/img]

hope this Katilena does her justice.. and hope i'm not necroposting... but i need an opinion... on the game...

New Battle Layout 1

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/ ... lever1.jpg[/img]

New Battle Layout 2

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/ ... lever2.jpg[/img]

Both are superimposed by photoshop... but i'm attempting to find a battle layout that works then i'll work with it and create something tremendously interesting and beautiful... once i get the layout done...
 

seita

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I believe the first one would work better. However once you get the character pictures in the second one, that'd probably be the one to use. I assume the orange areas aren't finished yet.
 

GUNJaH

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The second layout is much better, but some people tend to calculate their HP and SP. So that they will know when to use, skills and heal their characters. But I think, that will work as well, it can make the battles more challenging without the numbers of HP and SP. Will you be using ATB?
 

Darksydaz

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@Xk8 - Thanks for the picture - you don't mind if i put this under the fan art section. Oh and i'm trying to do a special artist promotion pack with this. So other people can draw versions of the characters and the pictures will be in the game under the menu selectable tab. And their artwork will be featured in the "gallery" of the game...

@Grooveman.exe - Yeah... mikaboshi was definitely a thanatos edit.. that was when i began spriting... and i thought i really sucked enough that i couldn't make a game or make sprites... all i could do was draw... well here i am a year (or 2) later... but yeah i'm changing Mikaboshi's sprite... from that to something else... but he still will fly/ float above the ground... just not sure how i'm going to do it yet... but thank you for the compliment...
 

Sailor Taurus

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Wow, this is still alive?



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And you STILL have those templates I made!? XD

Yikes, I almost forgot of this game's existence. Nice to see you're still working on it, it's definitely shaping up to be a good one. ^^ Nice to see the art style hasn't changed much.
 

Darksydaz

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well kinda... lol, that was samurai story... i've created a slew of new templates that only Samurai Ragnarok is using... so we phased out all the old templates... but, i have them... lol...

yeah... had a few members who dropped from the roster of Heaven's Cloud... but the three I have now are still going strong and consistent... the art style hasn't changed that much... tho, i still need to do new character art...heh, don't forget about us yet... we've been through some episodes... but we're doing good now... Nick, wants to bring out a tech demo with the battle system and menu system.... So that's what we're working towards now...
 
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