You'd Think After All This Time...

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

Hey guys
I was working on a new character... hopefully to bring me back from my hiatus - when I go to test her, her sprites are invisabile :*(

Now - its only been about 5 months... and I'm sure I've experinced this problem before, but I can't seem to find a reason for it.

Could you help :<?
Yes I edited the .air btw.

[Cyanide]

Reasons:

Bad format on sprites
referencing wrong sprites
referencing non existant air file
time on all frames is 0


Check sprites are correct. Confirm groups and image numbers (and animations) in air file. Check your def for names being right. Check that you don't have 0 on frames.

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

No dice

I reformated it from .BMP to .PCX
Double checked the .DEF and the .Air
(Editing KFM if that helps..)
And the frames have time.

[Cyanide]

In FF do the frames show up in the air editor?

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

In FF do the frames show up in the air editor?

Yes sir.

[Cyanide]

It's going to be something incredibly stupid and probably related to a fighter factory shortcut. Your sprites are definitely 256 colours? Even if you think they are, double check by extracting one from the sff and opening it to make user.

Thats the last thing i can think of. FF doesn't kill those sprites like MCM or MEE did. So you've got to confirm it.

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

Its actually 24 BMP - the 256 ruins the sprite

[Cyanide]

Hence your problem. FF although it claims to convert, makes a mess of things.

Unbreakable mugen rule. Sprites must be 8bit .pcx files.

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

Hence your problem. FF although it claims to convert, makes a mess of things.

Unbreakable mugen rule. Sprites must be 8bit .pcx files.

How ?

[Bloodly]

You'd have to use another image program to open them, change them to the proper type(256 colour palette, indexed colour) and re-save them.

GIMP works well enough.

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

I'm sorry to keep saying this - but how exactly do I do that on GIMP?

[BC]

are you sure you have made the palette correctly? and applied the images to the palette.

also when you add the animations "add group to air" or "add air" sometimes FF creates a blank frame check for blank frames.

other than that i havent a clue

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

Well it worked when it was 256 BMP - but the only issue was the quality.

I'll give the pallete a try

[BC]

ok.

The thing is i use 24bitmap images and i have used 256 they both worked for me becuase fighter factory converts them into pcx files anyway.

the thing about FF is that its full of glitches and errors like you have to set up your char a certain way ect.

but yea give the palette a try.

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

  Why was this so much easier when I was working on a character that stunk...

Gonna try redownloading Fighter Factory

[BC]

personally i use fighter factory update 1, the latest version is update 3 i think but i find that to have more errors

you could use MCM(mugen character maker)  but i think FF is more convenient and easier to understand

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

Is it possible to still get Verision 1 ?

[BC]

sure it is here is the link

http://www.freewarefiles.com/Fighter-Factory_program_19675.html

[Princess Chubba Wubba]

:O Thats what I'm useing

[BC]

oh then try update 3, not sure where to get it from tho

try www.esnips.com and in the search bar type fighter factory, then click on one of them if it says ffupd1 then dont get it if it says ffupd3 then download check a few