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Development / Re: How do PNG fonts work?

« on: October 25, 2018, 12:34:52 am »

In older versions, there was a fonts.dat
http://www.solarus-games.org/doc/1.3/quest_font_list_file.html

In the latest version, I don't know. Here you will find some explanations

http://www.solarus-games.org/doc/latest/quest_fonts.html

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Development / Re: Small Keys Hud

« on: October 02, 2018, 02:23:00 pm »

These topics may help you:

• Small keys
• Small Key HUD ?

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General discussion / GIMP - script-fu for pixel art - rescale a charset

« on: September 25, 2018, 11:27:11 pm »

Hello,

I created another script to be used with GIMP that it is supposed to be useful for pixel artists.
The aim is to rescale a charset.

I made a lot of tests but only on Gimp v 2.10.6, so I hope there will be not too many bugs. Please save your work before.
Don't hesitate to report bugs.

See attachment file or this link

What is this kind of script?
It is explained here: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html
 (There is often a translation of docs.gimp.org pages, just replace "en" by "fr" to get for example the french page: https://docs.gimp.org/fr/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html , it italian, es spanish, de ...)

Where to copy it?
It is explained here:  https://docs.gimp.org/en/install-script-fu.html

Some explanations

• First, configure your image grid according to current tiles.
• Then, start the script. It appears in the menu /Filters/pixelart-rescale-charset of GIMP
• Next, set the new values.
• Finally, press OK and pray it works!

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Your projects / Re: Solarus - ZL project

« on: September 03, 2018, 10:22:21 pm »

I'm testing a Gameboy style (so there are 4 colors). This is a very good way to improve my pixel art.Hope you like. It is free to use.




EDIT:I'm working on a new character in the same style. I like the flash of light at the end.

An old wizard man is attacking you.. what would you do? 

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General discussion / Re: Free Pixel Art Making Programs

« on: August 07, 2018, 09:04:40 pm »

There is a blog with a lot of tutorials on Pixel art:
MiniBoss - Pixel art tutorials
The link could be added in the first post.

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Bugs & Feature requests / Re: Pixel ratio Limitations?

« on: July 06, 2018, 07:35:56 pm »

I was going to say the same. Just to illustrate:

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Development / Re: Door that opens after all enemies of a type are defeated

« on: May 02, 2018, 11:11:15 pm »

There is a similar question and even a solution in this topic: "A chest created when all the enemies are killed"
It is for chests, but it should be not too difficult to adapt for doors.

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Game art & music / Re: Oceansheart Graphics

« on: April 29, 2018, 04:27:04 pm »

Happy you like this edit.

What was your process to reduce the number of colors?

I reduced the number of colors manually by searching for similar colors one by one, then when the number was less than 256, I used this script (GIMP - script-fu for pixel art - get palette and draw it into another image) to detect unnecessary colors sometimes used for a few pixels.

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Game art & music / Re: Original art

« on: April 05, 2018, 07:36:50 pm »

It would be better with a multidirectionnal fireball like in "Enemy: Zora" script by Christopho.
However, I like the preparation phase of the shaman when he is creating the fireball.

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Game art & music / Re: Oceansheart Graphics

« on: April 05, 2018, 07:23:57 pm »

OK thanks! I will do my best and especially I will avoid making a rough draft so you don't need to redraw if you want to keep my work: this will save you time.
My pixel art style is pretty close to yours*, so it shouldn't be too difficult.
Normally, I will give you the result this Sunday.

*(when I finish my creation, in other words, rarely) 

EDIT: It 's done. I had not seen the demo and its more completed tilesets before finishing to edit.
I redrawn the top of the tower, changed flat roofs, trees, reduced the number of colors (sometimes changed the colors) ...
In the second image, I put in white the modified pixels.
It is an indexed color image, because I was not able to attach it on the forum (limit size of 128KB); so the shadow tile is destroyed.



http://forum.solarus-games.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1115.0;attach=629

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Game art & music / Re: Oceansheart Graphics

« on: April 05, 2018, 06:00:06 pm »

Wow, very good job! It needs some changes, according to me, for the roof, the tower top and some trees.
Can I edit the tileset to show you what I would change?

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Development / Re: Convert US colour to PAL

« on: February 24, 2018, 11:31:45 pm »

I didn't know the difference of 32 between NTSC and PAL.
I opened this topic "GIMP - script-fu for pixel art - change RGB".
Maybe the script will help.

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General discussion / GIMP - script-fu for pixel art - change RGB

« on: February 24, 2018, 11:09:28 pm »

Hello,

I created another script to be used with GIMP that it is supposed to be useful for pixel artists.
The aim is to change RGB colors of an image or a selection. I got the idea of ​​this script thanks to this topic "Convert US colour to PAL"

This is a beta version, I hope there will be not too many bugs. Please save your work before.
Don't hesitate to report bugs.

See attachment file

What is this kind of script?
It is explained here: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html
 (There is often a translation of docs.gimp.org pages, just replace "en" by "fr" to get for example the french page: https://docs.gimp.org/fr/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html , it italian, es spanish, de ...)

Where to copy it?
It is explained here:  https://docs.gimp.org/en/install-script-fu.html

Some explanations
- It appears in the menu /Filters/pixelart-change-rgb of GIMP
- It opens a pop-up window where you can change Red, Green and Blue values.
By default, I add 32 to all colors, but you can change these values editing the script.
SF-ADJUSTMENT    "Red"       '(32 -255 255 1 10 0 SF-SLIDER)
SF-ADJUSTMENT    "Green"   '(32 -255 255 1 10 0 SF-SLIDER)
SF-ADJUSTMENT    "Blue"      '(32 -255 255 1 10 0 SF-SLIDER)
- It allows to add or subtract a value to Red Green Blue (RGB) of the selection or the image and draw the result into another image.
- Maximum of 256 colors in your image or in your selection.
- If there is a selection, only the selected layer and its selection are taken into account.
- If there is no selection, all layers are taken into account.

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General discussion / GIMP - script-fu for pixel art - get palette and draw it into another image

« on: February 15, 2018, 02:13:13 am »

Hello,

I created a script to be used with GIMP that it is supposed to be useful for pixel artists.
The aim is to get the colors palette of an image and to help to detect the similar colors that could be replaced.

This is a beta version, I hope there will be not too many bugs. Please save your work before.
Don't hesitate to report bugs.

See attachment file

What is this kind of script?
It is explained here: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html
 (There is often a translation of docs.gimp.org pages, just replace "en" by "fr" to get for example the french page: https://docs.gimp.org/fr/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html , it italian, es spanish, de ...)

Where to copy it?
It is explained here:  https://docs.gimp.org/en/install-script-fu.html

Some explanations
- It appears in the menu /Filters/pixelart-get-palette of GIMP
- It opens a pop-up window where you can change the width and the height of the "tile" which represents one color.
By default, I put width = 16 pixels and height = 10 pixels, but you can change these values editing the script.
SF-ADJUSTMENT    "Width"        '(16 1 50 1 10 0 SF-SLIDER)
SF-ADJUSTMENT    "Height"        '(10 1 50 1 10 0 SF-SLIDER)
- It allows to get palette of the selection or the image and draw it into another image.
- There is a maximum of 256 colors in your image or in your selection, otherwise the script will not work.
- If there is a selection, only the selected layer and its selection are taken into account.
- If there is no selection, all layers are taken into account.
- For the moment, the script does not sort colors. Maybe in the future.


Several years ago, I posted some scripts on http://registry.gimp.org/ but the site is still in maintenance. So, why not to share it to Solarus community which is one of my favorite forum and where I noticed several gimp users and pixel artists...

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Game art & music / Re: Original art

« on: February 06, 2018, 07:56:09 pm »

You have improved a lot since this little pixel art. I have already seen worse on a famous open game art site.