CLOSED. Pixel Art Thread: Classes & Gear

[StanLindsey]

**THIS THREAD IS CURRENTLY CLOSED. THE PIXEL BOARD IS UP!!! https://trello.com/b/vwuE9fbO/habitrpg-pixel-art

This Github Thread is now permanently closed. Feel free to unsubscribe.... and head on over to the new Trello :D**

[loarfy]

Idk if i'm submitting this right... normally i don't participate in this kinda stuff b/c i end up making a fool outta myself, but i really want to get whatever rare pet contributors get so uh

i made some rogue stuff, because rogues are the best, and also some magician stuff for the mage class, because that is hilarious to me

in case my drawing skills are worse than i remember, there's: a whip, a dagger, a jack of blades style armor, a utility belt, a magician's outfit, and a playing card (for illusions)

[lefnire]

Aaaiiiiiiyyyy! Those are so cool!

[nafoster]

That magician outfit is too funny. I could see people using it!

[RosemonkeyCT]

First ever muck about with shields - Hope they aren't too pants! But it's something new to me =/

[RosemonkeyCT]

By the way, I know they're too big - they're x3 zoom like the pets. I was going to ask if they're x2 or just x1 zoom. I stuck with x3 because I wasn't certain - at least you can see them heh. And they're not "for" any class, just trying ideas.

Is the idea of healers and mages having metaphorical shields a thing? Like potions and spells? Because I can have a go at that too ^^

[nafoster]

@RosemonkeyCT: That's a good question. In the meanwhile, you could possibly make symbols for like Fire, Water, Earth, Air, etc.

[RosemonkeyCT]

Symbols on the shields? Or just symbols in general? And how big?

This sort of thing?

...I hate that feather! But you get what I mean =/

[RosemonkeyCT]

...I can do better, I promise. I rushed those to ask if that's what you meant. Ugh, I need to go to bed >_<

[RosemonkeyCT]

Ps if you mean spells, I can sorta do that - I made this a bit ago for my boyfriend - I know it wouldn't be animated. Again, just making sure I follow what you mean. I sometimes get a bit muddled up =/

[lefnire]

@lemoness is right. I'm looking around and it appears we're beyond good (a backlog even!) on pets & mounts. We need weapons & shields for non-warrior classes. Looks like mage weapon is finished (god those look awesome @fuzzytrees, you are seriously talented!). I'm loving @RosemonkeyCT's shields, # 2 is perfect for healers. If anyone wants pointers on getting started, here's @Pandoro's original spec tutorial. The gist is we want the avatar to fit into a 105x105 px grid (including room for mount & pet).

We also might need bosses. If you want inspiration, look at our original bosses (incl gen1 Last Boss) concepts. Theoretically we'll be using those sprites, but we might not be able to for legal reasons. If we can't, then we may need a whole new batch of sprites. There's no real dimensions constraint on bosses, as long as they fit within the Party sidebar (see Trello for what I mean) - so let yer imaginations soar!

[lefnire]

@loarfy - those sprites are absolutely fantastic. Man I want to be that magician! We currently only have 4 classes planned (deets here): warrior, healer, mage, rogue. Scroll up & lemon's got the rogues designed. So options for your designs are (1) work them into current rogue tree, which means lemon signs off and you might have to modify some of the existing rogue tiers; (2) we wait till we can accommodate new classes; (3) special event items? (non class-specific), these are quite successful; (4) replace the original rogue boss & end-game rogue gear, if we can't get legal on the current end-game rogue gear

Reason I'm brainstorming all that is I really really like them, and want to see them used in some way.

[loarfy]

@lefnire ah thank you! :D i would be cool with any of those options; just having my stuff used would be great tbh <3 i'm really glad everyone seems to like them!! i saw that a bunch of rogue things were done already but for some reason i thought there was gonna be like... different sets of rogue armor, or something like that. idk. i didn't mean to just bulldoze over the already made ideas, sorry!

[lefnire]

@loarfy might be we use your gear as end-game rogue set, and a boss (see latest comments here)

[smograth]

I don't know if this is the right thread-thingy, but I've made some dresses, with and without long sleeves;

Normal sleeves: x1: x3:

Long sleeves: x1: x3:

They're grayscale for easy colour customization!

[lefnire]

So I'm thinking we can use the mage staves for healers too, since they'll be increasing INT. That means we need the following:

• 4 more cross-bows (@zoebeagle, you still playing these days?)
• 3 "Spell" (or ability, or skill) icons for all classes. These aren't defined yet, but see Trello for a gist, and I'll post back here when we have them set
• [edit: RosemonkeyCT is on this] What to do about shields? Should we have caster shields and fighter shields? New shields for every class? I have a proposal: only healers and warriors get shields, since they're the Defense / Constitution classes. In any case @RosemonkeyCT, those are some excellent shields to get started us going, could you do us one more per chance? (my thoughts on why only one)

[loarfy]

@lefnire SWEET. uh, idk if there's anything i've gotta do on my end, so hit me up if there's something I should be doing here, hahahaha

[RosemonkeyCT]

@lefnire Thank you, and sure. I'll have to come back to that, I have an appointment in 20 minutes. I'll try out a few more things when I get back so you can choose the ones you like the best ^^

[RosemonkeyCT]

...Actually, you say Cleric? I'll play around with the colours and styles, see if I can fit with the armour sets and such. Either way, I'll go for too many over too few. I'd rather give choices. I liked the different shapes of the shields as well as the different patterns on them.

[RosemonkeyCT]

Okay... I used the shield designs I had, used the smaller-sized shield because I'm assuming a beginner one would be smaller, and played around using the colours of the first level healer outfit. Here's what I've come up with for designs. If any stand out, let me know and I'll make a full set of those for each level... 4 shields? 5 shields? I just don't want to do each of these 5 times because there's a fair few of them.

[RosemonkeyCT]

I know some of the colours clash a bit, not all the designs work, but I posted them all anyway - if you want me to tweak any to see how they look a little differently just let me know.

[lefnire]

Shoot yeah, meant to say healer instead of cleric (religious implications & such). Those are great! That gives me plenty to work with!

[RosemonkeyCT]

Yeah, that's cool. Are there any in particular you liked and wanted me to make more versions of? Like the bigger ones? And in the different healer colours?

[RosemonkeyCT]

On a different note, I tried having a go at the ability icons - here's something I tried for "bash". I don't like the "shockwave" effect I tried to use, I don't think it works. But when I think of bashing something, this is the image in my head.

And I am still going for x3 zoom, I'm assuming by now that's a standard. This it fits in a 50x50 canvas after being zoomed, that's pretty much the size I've been working to. And I keep forgetting to knock the background invisible, sorry!

[RosemonkeyCT]

Attempt two - like the hammer better, still not sure how to show the movement/sound of the bash =/

Any suggestions?

[RosemonkeyCT]

Attempt three - sorry, I can't make up my mind on things! But i reckon I've cracked it this time:

I'm going for a lie down before I start breaking my computer or my brain melts!

[RosemonkeyCT]

I think I like the idea of matching coloured shields for the healers to fit the armour. After all, the shields for the warriors sort of do too. I know the cross is a bit religious-connotations, but I also know it's a universal sign for aid, and I think that's the best choice for a shield personally. So I'll make the 5 shields based on that thought.

As for the other two designs, I imagined the darker one being more of a rogue or ninja style, and the red one made me think of demons. Perhaps some enemies could be armed. Either way that could work too.

And, after some advice from a few friends, I tweaked my hammer some - hope it's better. Seriously, tell me if it's crap. I haven't been doing this long, and I really want to learn to get better.

[RosemonkeyCT]

Here's my set of 5 shields with the cross design using the 5 healer class armours as a base:

[RosemonkeyCT]

The round one looks bigger, so it might work better as shield two instead of one... on the blue and green shields there's some dark green and dark blue but at this zoom it seems to blend too much. Still, I wasn't sure about the full gold thing. I prefer the red and purple one. I'll keep tweaking.

[RosemonkeyCT]

Tweaked a bit - you can see the colours now.

[RosemonkeyCT]

I sort of like the almost heartlike shape of the last shield. The second to last one has the tweaked-up corners I gave the first healer shield, but I'm uncertain about if it works. If anything about the shapes don't work it's easy sorted.

In fact, I'll change the green and blue ones slightly again. Sorry, I work better when I talk out loud like this to someone even if they don't reply.

Blue - more like the previous one

Green - tweaked to look, well, better!

Thoughts anyone?

[RosemonkeyCT]

Argh, that green shield is bugging me so much!

[lefnire]

These are looking fantastic IMO. I'll start demo-ing on avatars to give you a feel once I'm at a computer. FYI you can edit posts if you want to consolidate updated art On Nov 18, 2013 2:26 PM, "RosemonkeyCT" notifications@github.com wrote:

Argh, that green shield is bugging me so much!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/HabitRPG/habitrpg/issues/943#issuecomment-28744517 .

[fuzzytrees]

Mage and healer staves:

Please note that some shading has been added on mage staff # 3, so please use this version. Opinions on the final mage staff? Is it fancy enough?

Edited to add: Wait I still counted wrong, there are supposed to be 7 weapons, aren't there? Hmmm..... Edited to add: ok, really done now

[smograth]

Wow, I really like these!

[lefnire]

@RosemonkeyCT cap for actions is 40x40, can you shrink the hammer? (I can use PS to scale if necessary)

[fuzzytrees]

@lefnire right is healer, left is mage

[Draayder]

Tried out some stuff for the rogue icons, let me know what you think. Backstab Pickpocket Stealth

[lefnire]

@Draayder :) :) these are great - @lemoness is gonna have a heyday for permission emails when she's back from vacay, I think we can use most stuff posted on this thread in coming weeks

@fuzzytrees shoot me an email sometime

[lefnire]

@fuzzytrees new WIP (@RosemonkeyCT give those shields a gander, tell me if you want me to use other ones / different order)

[AdrienLemaire]

impressive :) But shouldn't we give them full body now instead of just head & hands ? In prevision to half-nuded future clothes.

[zoebeagle]

@lefnire Yep, still here. Do you guys have any particular theme/color requests for the other crossbows?

[RosemonkeyCT]

@lefnire The green and blue shields need swapping over (blue is a lower class than green because it matches the lower class healer outfit), and can you use the later one on the blue?

As for the green, I still can't decide between the one you've used and this one - your call:

Also, I am so pleased you like them!

I'll sort the hammer now... 40x40 at full zoom, yeah?

[RosemonkeyCT]

How's this?

Also I love those new staffs and the way you've made the mage and healer ones different, I think it works really well.

[jacobcox36]

Hey guys, I want to take a crack at contributing. I'm seeing on trello that this project still needs mage shields, rogue shields, and some icons? I'm not super skilled at navigating trello and github yet -_-

[RosemonkeyCT]

@coyotino I'm not sure if there's been a decision on the mage and rogue shields yet, whether they're being done or not. The icons are 40x40 at x3 zoom - so it fits in a grid of 40 pixels square, and the pixels are clumped in groups of 3x3 to give the pixelated effect. Someone's done the 3 rogue ones, I had a go at one of the warrior ones, but there's still loads left.

[Pandoro]

Just a little heads up 40x40 at 3 times zoom doesn't make sense as 40 is not dividable by 3.

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:10 PM, RosemonkeyCT notifications@github.comwrote:

@coyotino https://github.com/coyotino I'm not sure if there's been a decision on the mage and rogue shields yet, whether they're being done or not. The icons are 40x40 at x3 zoom - so it fits in a grid of 40 pixels square, and the pixels are clumped in groups of 3x3 to give the pixelated effect. Someone's done the 3 rogue ones, I had a go at one of the warrior ones, but there's still loads left.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/HabitRPG/habitrpg/issues/943#issuecomment-28822019 .

[jacobcox36]

So in photoshop, I'd do it in a 40x40 canvas and then bump it up to 300% when I export it to .png?

[smograth]

Here's a book-thing! Regular #2a2a2a grey outline:

Black outline because the grey looks a bit washed-out next to those dark colours:

[Draayder]

@coyotino the 40x40 is for the 3x zoom, so really you'd be working on something more like a 13x13 and then up scaling it. It's a pretty tiny area to work with really.

@smograth Those are nice looking! They read much more clearly as books than my attempts.

[smograth]

Robecloaks! Male: Female: