^ What the goddamned hell does that have to do with anything

Just Quit referring to other authors for ""doing a decent / good job for a first char"", especially fucking PotS, who CARES if you think his first creation was good, like the entire world agrees, even if the entire world DOES agree it doesn't actually HELP ANYONE in any way without any actual details, help provide the thread starter with detailed examples on how to improve, since most if not all of you apparently don't know how to do that and / or are basically saying the same bullshit over and over again I may as well do it myself



Really what you should do first tho is read around and ask questions socially, figure out the majority standards of what ppl want / expect for a creation to be ""good"", once you learn that, keep asking necessary questions and start learning from the answers you're provided with, always remember that opinions will always vary and with that said, you can't please everyone

And don't take all feedback to heart, I used to be [ still am, sorta ] a ""nuke author"", which is highly frowned upon here, with the feedback on a character of that sort from here as well as other places, twas a mixture of good and bad, it partially [ in time ] helped me develop my own style that pretty much everyone can tolerate [ One character of variant levels, balanced, cheap, nuke ]

Make use of any feedback given instead, no matter how disgustingly inappropriate it is, that's what I did


— For coding, your docs are your best friend, learn the fundamentals, figure out what Sctrl does what, as well as all triggers and parameters, really everything you need to know is there, start experimenting with them all, the more time you spend doing so, odds are the better the turn out

— For spriting, learn the fundamentals there too, the difference between 8bit and 24bit, shading, color separation, colors in general, learn some terms too, [ Gradient, Grayscale, Hue, Saturation ], fiddle with tools. [ FF's palette editor, Photoshop ] For the art itself, if you're not building from scratch, use a portrait as a reference, and try your best to clone that portrait in an 8 bit manner, the more time spent on your art, odds are the better the turn out too

— For collisions, keep them simple, but fair, most ppl here frown upon ""infinite priority"", which is basically an attack collision with no hit collision overlaying it

— For ripping and resources, Get social again with questions + research

— For stuff you're stuck on, turn to the help boards


Even the pros can learn new things, whether it be from some random board here or from experimentation or etcetera, just try your best, be positive, or better yet some mixture of the 2 and you can outstand