I truely love it!
And still very glad you use SFIV anims since they are more dynamic.
Hope you can include some of her animations from SFV (some are very good)

Wait! after watching again, I noticed something is missing in this rendering method (even f it's perfect)
drop shadow shold be visible in the upper thighs because of skirt partially covering them.
I'm not sure if you understand well, but right now it seems like the skirt don't stop the light from "hitting" the hips/upper thighs area.

To me it's an inportant detail to match sF3 style.
Just be sure not to be too extreme with the area "covered" with drop shadow, otherwise most of her legs definition will disapear un dark...
only upper thigh area. and hips if it is visible in some moves.

My Hell, you're improving post overpost <3 !!

This last is nearly perfection!

Yes, this is getting incredibly good!
This series of standing punch is great! I can't wait to see the kicks as well.

It was a great idea to use the dynamism of SF4 anims for your Sakura.

Gorgeous! sure it looks better.
I'm curious about "MKF3"
What is the difference? (I have not checked frame by frame.)

Also, I never been so fan of SF4's Sakura far HK.
It had more dynamism in SFA Sakura sprites.

Also, I think some of her animations from SF5 are actually good.
Stand HK, crouch HK... "Furiko Upper" taunts etc... most of the other SF5 Sakura animations looks like they have been done by "trainee"

I can't wait to see more of your work.
Good luck!

It's definitely getting way better.
There's still some spots where it seems a bit blurred or undefined but it's still really good stuff.

jenngra505 said, August 07, 2023, 09:40:22 pm

I think some of the animations are a bit too smooth to match the style of Street Fighter 3, for instance cut down the number of frames in Sakura's stance by half so it matches the 10-12 frame average of Ryu and Chun-Li's stances.

sure it will be needed, but for some moves (turn, crouching, normals) we can just use a simple formula, if ryu had 2 frames with 4, and 5 ms, we can put one from sakura with 3 frames of 3 ms, if the active keep same, or repeat colision, it can seems more smooth, btw much things need to be reduced, like her palete that had 256 colors on mugen, and 64 in sf3

Momotaro said, August 08, 2023, 12:53:13 am

Yes, she needs less frames.
But well chosen frames.

Also, seems like the new rendering have not enough strong outlines. -> giving the feeling of 3D model instead of actual line art to sprite.
She also lack of contrast (black tones) in hair area.

But the progress is good!

And face looks great for automated rendering!

this about contrast and outline is most about palete than shader, cause palete at this step had 256 colors, also, it will be reduced to 64
btw reduce framerate is a thing that i'm leting to the guys of codes, i beleave his skills, and we preffer to let more, than cut, than let less, and must render it again

biggest update since started

*new version of shader that had exactly 64 colors (63 + transparence) same as cps3 originals
*better physics
*faster engine of spriting
*less polish needed for finish sprites
*almost anyone from 3d era can be converted with same result level as sakura

 

Momotaro said, August 08, 2023, 11:40:31 am

BTW, do you plan to give her smart CS palette ?
Would be good to include the option to give different colors to her shoes, gloves, sports bloomer...
Just like SF3 Sean had upper clothes and lower clothes with different color options.
I'm not sure how hard it would be to include that on the character rendering.
Not sure how hard it would be

nop, to keep precision we must to reduce the color count, cause the shader need 16 slots each side of colors to work
so, every singel color take 32 slots to be rendered with that precision


WIP!
cammy and other sf4 chars that will be rendered for the project

Momotaro said, August 09, 2023, 03:01:32 pm

Ok, I understand.
About Cammy. She looks gret, but I'm not sure about her straight leg (forward leg)
The position of this leg looks strange in 2D, same for the shading on this leg.

I always keep in mind that the sading in Capcom games is not always perfectly realistic, but more like a way to highlight the body, volume and muscles of the characters.

Beside of that, it looks promising.

WIP