Castle Paradox

[TwinHamster]

Download this image and see if Custom lets you import it.

[Hades]

ok ive got it... odd it does taht
thanx for your patience
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[Hades]

ok ive looked up on the FAQ and it isnt dere so im gonna post up cuz its still related..

when making sprites on the custom i see games with black borders around the charactors... eg:


(this is just an example)
notice the black lines around the charactor.. how is that achieved when the background in the editor is black?
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[Newbie_Power]

You can change the transparent color when editing sprites. Look at my avatar, which is a result of doing just that.
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[Hades]

how?
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[Moogle1]

You know how to edit palettes, yes? Change the first color in the palette to a different color. Use one of the other colors as your black outline (making that color black, of course). See the graphics article in the latest Hamsterspeak for a few palettes that have a non-black background color.
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[Ysoft_Entertainment]

well, it also depends on which version of ohr you are using.

If you are using non-wip versions of ohr, the easiest way would be to color the background with any color, then make one of the palette color be black. then when you are done outlining your characters, floodfill the background with palette 0 and woila, you have the character outlined.
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[Shadowiii]

If you'd like to see Chibi examples (besides the excellent pixel art tutorial that has already been mentioned), it'd like to point out all my games use FF6ish looking sprites, and they are all unpassworded (for this very reason, in fact).

IF you don't want to change your background color, just outline them in a different color say, green, then change the green black. Thats how I usually do it.
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[TwinHamster]

Or The next darkest shade of gray:
It's identifiable from black, and it honestly looks pretty good as an outline, so you can just leave it that way!

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

[Hades]

by the responce im guessing this question wasnt asked before
i'll try what youve said.. but some of the things didnt regester with my brain quite right.
ive tried what most of you've said but lets say you erasing something ... you'd erase it in black yes? that means black on black in which you cant see but you know the out line is dere somewhere LOL
my real question is .. how will the ohr regester the black when the black is on the black (the outline)
can you tell me what the characotr looks like in the editor when completly done cuz im getting this crazy idea that you wont be able to see the border around the charactor since the black background..

[Uncommon]

The first color in a given palette is the transparency. You would use this to erase. Whether it is black or not doesn't matter, what matters is that it's the transparency color being used.
If you have black set in another color of the palette, that color will show up, no matter what.

[TMC]

Unless you're using a 'WIP' build, you won't be able to change colour 0 in the palette. If you're not, you'll have to colour in the background or you won't be able to see the outlines, you're right.
But whatever colour 0/transparent is set to, it will not show up ingame. If you go up the the walkabouts menu, you'll see all the walkabouts without their coloured backgrounds (so the outlines will be invisible, but they'll be there in Game).
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[Hades]

kk ill try it out
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