My first character - Shrek FINISHED

[mugenisjustfine]

download now

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=91863.0

[mugenisjustfine]

HELL-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO? ANYBODY HOME?

[Cybaster]

Move it to the Mugen Development Help section (not discussion) :
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?board=315.0

And the answer can take from 5 minutes to 2 days (or never), depending on how hard or long it is.

You say you coded his light punch and other things, but does a single one of them work ?
What happens when you use debug mode (Ctrl+D then Ctrl+C) ? Do you see the CLSN boxes ?
Did you convert your sprites to pcx with correct palette before putting them in the SFF ?

[mugenisjustfine]

i see red boxes when he punches and when i press ctrl+C+D

[Cybaster]

Okay, I downloaded him, and the problem is what I was thinking.

Before inserting the sprites in the SFF, you converted them into PCX (which is good), but you didn't convert them into "indexed colors", you left them as RGB. Mugen doesn't accept RGB format sprites in the SFF, only indexed colors ones.

If you extract the first sprite of your SFF (the only one which you can actually see in-game), you'll see it has indexed colors (use photoshop, the gimp or paintshop pro). Take the palette from this sprite, and apply it to all your other sprites. Save them, and reinsert them in the SFF. That should do the job.

[mugenisjustfine]

wait sorry but how do i change all my sprites into indexed colors?

[Rajaa Retired]

you'll need a batch program, indexed colors is 256 color pallet image, so just convert them, for something like this i find myself sing Paint shop Pro, can't remember if anything else besides that and Photoshop does it.

[Cybaster]

And in case you're just asking how to convert a single sprite :

In photoshop : Image -> Mode -> Indexed Colors (custom palette, and use the one you've saves from your only indexed sprite).

Should work similarly for the Gimp (which is free and can be Google'd, in case you don't have Photoshop nor Paintshop Pro).

[mugenisjustfine]

do i have to convert the sprites in gimp or photoshop? i cant just do it in fighter factory?

[Cybaster]

You cannot do that in fighter factory.

[mugenisjustfine]

ok so when i open one of my pictures of my character in Gimp i go to image>mode>indexed>convert. then i save the picture and when i import it to SFF and it's just blank. btw heres a comparision of the sprite that is to be indexed and shows up in mugen and the other one (on the left) is the one that doesnt show up in mugen. they look pretty much the same to me.

and btw my character can't move either whats up with that?

[Cybaster]

They look pretty much the same because they are the same, graphically. It's just the format of the image which must be a certain type to be recognized by Mugen.

Did you start by extracting the palette from the only sprite which appears fine in your SFF (sprite 0,0 if I remember correctly) ?
Call this palette PAL0.
Then, when you convert your other sprites to pcx (the images you're showing), choose colormap -> use custom palette. Choose PAL0 and apply it to the sprite. Save the image and insert it in the SFF with fighter factory by replacing the older one (do not insert it at the end of the SFF, after sprites which don't have indexed colors, or it will fuck up your sprite).

[mugenisjustfine]

where's colormap? what if i paste my sprites onto ms paint and then save all of them as a different format?

[Cybaster]

Just look at the picture you posted. Just click on "use custom palette"...

Don't put them all in a single image, that wouldn't change the fact that you'd have to convert them all to pcx with a palette anyway.

[mugenisjustfine]

ok i opened up one of my sprites that didn't work in mugen in GIMP 2 and went to image>mode>indexed>use custom palette and then saved the image and then put it in SFF in FF and now it looks like crap:

[Cybaster]

Did you insert it (in position) just after the sprite with the working palette ?  Did you check "shared palette" option when adding the sprite ? Did you make sure you deleted the sprite you want to replace (or directly replaced the correct sprite).

Are you even sure the sprite still looks correct after you applied the palette to it (AFTER you click on convert) ?

[mugenisjustfine]

oh wow now it looks even more shittier

ok this char isnt working out im just gonna delete it and try it again.

[Cybaster]

  What the fuck did you do to the sprite ?

[tetsuo9999]

LOL

[mugenisjustfine]

shreck is no lolin mater and 1nce i fin w/ him i can finally 0wn my bros ass @ mugen cuz usally he ownz me wit zeek y h, bomb im cap falcon but soon i have shrek 2 pwn zeeky  @$$