Character-specific intros are coded into the characters themselves. The trigger used for this is normally "p2name." To the best of my knowledge unique ordering is not possible, but maybe Cyanide might know better.

Cybaster said, August 05, 2011, 12:22:16 am

C.R.O.M Lando said, August 04, 2011, 06:37:59 pm

yeah i think that character your talking about is Ubu. the old dude with explosive firing finger he points like a gun. yeah he has made him so well done you wouldnt even notice it. thats great editing. Aiduzzi is one of my favorite original character creators. 

Huh ? It was kinda obvious at first sight he was using Feilong's chest, Yamazaki's legs and Gen's head.

Most people wouldnt notice, and the work over he gave to the whole thing made him useable. I mean, he wouldnt be able to copyright those specific sprites, but he could use the character anywhere and no one would say "its gen mixed with feilong and yama!"

So the sprites wouldnt be copyrighteable but the character would.

For the record. That page is OMG old. Like, 2002 old. That was about the point they were actually requesting donations. Most of that stuff is probably no longer accurate.

Quick skim through. Yes that is old as hell. sprmaker is old, it's sprmake2 now, and they specify you should be on 320x240, which is basically out of date since 4 years ago and their latest release defaults to 720p.

So yeah, take that page with a grain of salt. You'd be better off reading what's actually on the site rather than a hosted document.

Or, like someone said before, just create characters that are original enough that they dont have likenesses tied in copyright to anyone.

If I recall correctly, one of Aiduzzi first characters was made using FeiLong chest, it was so edited however you couldnt even tell.

have you never heard of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Djinshi
if your character is not that original automatically it will never be big, and it will not hurt anybody to sell it in convention etc.

look here,

Andy Seto once made a manhua that is clearly inspired by Street Fighter, and it went into publisher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Weapon_Z

Any company will lock you down if you ask them if you can get profit from their material.

If you are good enough to edit enough that whatever sources you used arent recognizable, then you should be in the clear, headswaps, characters using captain commando sprites but sporting a new name and moves are all still using likenesses that are held as copyright of someone else.

You cant publish a book about CRZ the super human that just happens to be reused images from the dragonball manga with the ballons changed and a new colour to the main character, the gi wearing, spiky haired CRZ.

If your work depends on someone else work to exist, then its not your work, just like with jokes.

Having a character joke about mario by showing up once in a mario costume= your character
having a character whose clothes are marios= possibility of infrigement and cease &desist.

CRZ said, August 03, 2011, 12:37:10 pm

Thanks guys for the feedback, I have a clearer picture now.

The reason why I'm asking is there are some people who're interested to draw comics from some mugen chars I'm making. The char sprites are modified (slightly, there are original sprites too) from other original games and are not meant to be sold, but the character concepts and storylines are original. So would it be an offence to make a comic out of it to be sold for profit? If yes I wouldn't mind not getting a cent out of comic sales profit, but the comic artist and publisher would indirectly be committing an offence. there are two ways to view it, first the chars are original so their storylines are entitled for profit use, but then again without the sprites/effects of other games, these chars would never gain the prominence to be made into a comic in the first place.

I think this is related to how mugen makes its money (not flaming elecbyte here; I'm really grateful they made mugen for us to use). I mean, mugen is non profit and the source of money is donations, but the core of mugen is the usage of other games' content to make our custom games, and through this, elecbyte makes money. opinions?

gradually make the characters more original. I don't know how much different characters have to be when we have deadpool and the characters from absolute power running around. I wouldn't be worried unless I got a cease and desist.

I believe the same code applies for that as well. If the player's AILevel is greater than 0, then they are a CPU.

For the best results with small icons you need to actually redraw the image by hand, picking out the most noticeable features. You may want to crop down the initial image to a size that's suitable for basic reference, but at the end of the day if you're not editing it by hand it won't be as recognizable as you want it to be. Remember that the dimensions for small portrait are 25x25 and the dimensions for large portraits are 120x40

And the pink color not being transparent, either means that it's indexed incorrectly and isn't color 0 or that it isn't the true pink that you've set as your transparent color. Look at the numerical values for Red/Green/Blue for that color, if they don't match with your default  transparent pink, then that's the problem. As a general rule of thumb you should add large portraits to the end of the .SFF.

1) there must be a transparent color there, after indexing color try to open color balance and place the blank color with your portrait background color

2) try to see the system.def and look for "portrait.scale = ???"

1) have you use indexed colors in photoshop ?

2) why dont you try to crop it ?

variables can be defined in a couple of ways. Rajaa has actually written quite a good tutorial on them in the tips and tutorials section that may assist you in finding these values.

Also, warusaki's chaining may not be entirely accurate.