Add new sprites for Pokémon and items from Sword/Shield Expansion Pass

[msikma]

Today the Sword/Shield Expansion Pass came out, containing these new sprites and some new item sprites too.

I've received a clean copy of the sprites and I've started incorporating them into the project.

[koenigderluegner]

Hello msikma, I know I'm very early asking this but do you know how you will name Urshifu as a slug? His two forms are Single Strike Style and Rapid Strike Style - Single strike considered "Base form". Trying to follow your old conventions I prepared my spreadsheet naming them

urshifu urshifu-rapid-strike (base sprite is the same but different for gmax)

They both have "Strike Style" at the end, so I'm not sure which part you might scrap.

Other than that if you need help again mapping some items or whatever, feel free to ping me :)

[msikma]

Thanks for offering your help!

I have to agree, just like Oricorio I prefer to simplify the names a bit and remove "style" at the end here, but it's also not something I feel very strongly about so if there's a good argument for keeping the full form name I'd be happy to do that too. The main reason is I want the filenames to not be too long since most people access the files directly by filename.

I still want to try and offer as much compatibility with other major projects as possible with regard to form names, by offering a lookup table for the other standards, but for now the way you suggested is fine.

Edit: also, I assume that the Gmax version is the same for both of them, right?

[koenigderluegner]

they have different gmax versions, one's blue and one's red (different icons in-game) I predicted the slugs as urshifu-gmax and urshifu-rapid-strike-gmax, icons can be seen here

[Lekiyoshi]

Darmanitan seems to be the only case with 2 forms "together". If the pattern used for Darmanitan is used, I believe slugs would be urshifu, urshifu-rapid-strike, urshifu-single-strike-gmax and urshifu-rapid-strike-gmax.

[koenigderluegner]

i think its more like toxtricity where basic form (amped) is just toxtricity or toxtricity-gmax and low-key form is toxtricity-low-key or toxtricity-low-key-gmax

[Lekiyoshi]

Ah, I thought Toxtricity was handled differently because it has the same sprite for both gmax forms and the repo only has toxtricity-gmax being used.

Btw, why are appletun-gmax and toxtricity-low-key-gmax not being used as placeholders?

[koenigderluegner]

They don't have different sprites but different slugs as an option in pokemon.json as forms

[msikma]

Just wanted to give a brief update that I've started on the changes. Fortunately there's not that many new sprites. I hope to have a branch with all the changes in a few days for testing.

[itsjavi]

I opened this accidentally because I didn't notice this issue, but I did some research on where to find the icons, if it can be useful for you: https://github.com/msikma/pokesprite/issues/79

[thegreenkacheek]

Just for fun (and maybe if you haven't gotten to some of them yet) I made shiny sprites for all the DLC forms! Please feel free to use these in the project if it saves you work! https://imgur.com/a/u90mvjl

[msikma]

Update. I'm nearly finished with the sprite work. Only the new Galar Pokémon are left, which I'll do tomorrow. Everything else has been done.

The only thing left after that is to add them to the JSON file and test the changes. It'd be nice if people could have a look at the sprites too, to make sure I didn't make any mistakes. I actually found a small mistake in the Inteleon sprite from last update.

I'll update the JSON tomorrow.

Just for fun (and maybe if you haven't gotten to some of them yet) I made shiny sprites for all the DLC forms! Please feel free to use these in the project if it saves you work! https://imgur.com/a/u90mvjl

Nice work, these look really good. And you got to them really quickly too! The only thing is, I prefer to do my own versions, since I want to make absolutely sure that the sprites I make are exactly consistent with my own previous work. And, well, it would feel strange to not do 100% of them now that I've done like 99% of them already. But that's really good work and I'll be sure to consult these if I can't figure out the last few sprites tomorrow.

[koenigderluegner]

I would love to help! Is it possible to put the new sprites into a combined image for easier checks?

[msikma]

Did the last sprites and a bit more checking, here's a list of the new sprites: https://github.com/msikma/pokesprite-gen8-new-icons/wiki/Gen-8-DLC-new-sprites - feel free to let me know if anything should be changed.

Tomorrow I'll add all this to the JSON file, and finalize the items sprites.

One thing is that's really weird is that the items seem to be in double resolution with the white outline around the sprites being twice the regular resolution. Normally the items are displayed at 2x size, with the white outline being as blocky as the pixel art itself. I'm making sure the new item sprites are consistent with the old sprites.

[sora10pls]

Great work on all of the sprites! The only inconsistency I really noticed was with Shiny Zarude. The belly is basically spot-on, but the sprites you have listed use the same brown for the eyes. If you look at the official HOME renders I’ve posted, you’ll see that the eyes are actually different between nonshiny/shiny, though they don’t use the same brown; it’s a little bit brighter in comparison.

Context: https://twitter.com/mattyoukhana_/status/1273241333864505345

Other than that, I can’t find anything else myself. 👍

Edit: To be sure, this is also the case with the ingame model’s textures — not just a HOME discrepancy.

[koenigderluegner]

I checked every sprite against the models from HOME, the models from HOME look a bit brighter/less saturated than those sprites, but I think it's just the lightning/shading on those renders so I don't see a problem here. There is one exception though, Heracross in HOME looks quite than your new shiny sprite (also a litttle bit lighter in-game):

Other than that, theres nothing to "complain" about, really well done!

[msikma]

You're right, and maybe Sharpedo also looks a tiny bit too saturated.

Part of the problem is that I only just noticed they look slightly different in Photoshop because they're supposed to be displayed in srgb mode, but it's not. That made it more saturated than it should be. I'm gonna have to have another look at that. But aside from that it should be a bit brighter.

Regarding Zarude, you are right. Actually, I was a bit conflicted about this, because GF's original non-shiny box sprite also has no brightness variation between top and bottom:

Since that's how the original was, I just kept the same contrast. But I'm going to see how it looks if I modify the shiny one to have a brighter face and less bright chest.

[msikma]

See pull #80.

I can't get a new version of the docs up without actually merging (since it can only host docs from the master branch) but here's a copy of the docs with the changes: https://doubla.de/pokesprite/overview/dex-gen8-new.html - note that the menu links don't work here, they go to the old version. So here you can have another look at the sprites.

ps, @koenigderluegner, this version shows gmax-rapid-strike instead of rapid-strike-gmax but I've already fixed that in the JSON file.

edit: note that a whole bunch of sprites appeared to be unchanged, although I'll be double checking that:

• Sandile, Abra, Azurill, Buneary, Carvanha, Chansey, Clauncher, Cubone, Exeggcute, Fletchinder, Fletchling, Fomantis, Foongus, Happiny, Herdier, Horsea, Igglybuff, Jigglypuff, Kadabra, Krokorok, Larvesta, Lickitung, Lillipup, Loudred, Luxio, Magnemite, Marill, Mienfoo, Petilil, Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Porygon, Psyduck, Rockruff, Sandshrew-Alola, Sandshrew, Sandslash-Alola, Seadra, Shinx, Skrelp, Slowpoke, Staryu, Tangela, Tentacool, Venipede, Whirlipede, Whismur, Zorua

In these cases I prefer the old sprite because the new sprites are lossy compressed.

[koenigderluegner]

I just went through the pull request, I noticed you named the new Cap-Pikachu Galar-Cap, I think the official (=datamined) name is World-Cap, Serebii has it too:

Also the provided link is missing some new pokemon (was looking for heracross and scizor, both were missing) so I checked them straight out of the request, heracross seems to be lighter now, more like the render (if I'm not crazy), which is good!

[itsjavi]

also worth mentioning that it seems that Magearna got a new shiny color pattern in Home. https://twitter.com/Kaphotics/status/1227417320064081920/photo/1

read the full thread bc I am not sure

[koenigderluegner]

@itsjavi already taken care of, see magearna shiny sprite

[msikma]

I just went through the pull request, I noticed you named the new Cap-Pikachu Galar-Cap, I think the official (=datamined) name is World-Cap, Serebii has it too:

Thanks, will change that.

Also the provided link is missing some new pokemon (was looking for heracross and scizor, both were missing)

Whoops, I realize I probably failed to update the tags that say whether an icon is from Gen 7 or from Gen 8.

[msikma]

I haven't been able to play Sword/Shield much yet, let alone the DLC. Does anyone know if Sandslash-Alola is available? It's just weird to me that they updated Sandslash's icon, but not Sandslash-Alola's icon. I can see the Alola model on Serebii, though.

I'm also seeing now that the new World Cap Pikachu is moved up and to the right a little bit. A few other sprites (like Venusaur) have been moved around to center them better. I'm updating all other Pikachu sprites to follow suit.

[sora10pls]

Sandslash, Exeggutor and Marowak are all in DLC 1, including their Alolan Forms. They just didn’t update its sprite like with the other Alolan Forms in base SWSH.

It's just weird to me that they updated Sandslash's icon, but not Sandslash-Alola's icon.

This was the case with others like Ninetales, Dugtrio, Persian, etc.

[msikma]

Here's a new version of the overview, with this time all new sprites correctly tagged so they show up:

https://doubla.de/pokesprite/overview/dex-gen8-new.html

Urshifu rapid-strike-gmax is visible now too.

[koenigderluegner]

I quickly checked over the new overview, in my opinion it good to go! great work

[msikma]

I've made a few more updates to the previous link. One thing I've been meaning to do for a while is update Pikachu's shiny version (according to Home it should be a bit darker), and I've added female versions of Pikachu. Those don't actually exist in the game, but it's one of the coolest gender differences so it seemed nice to have it for people who want to use it.

For the update there's one more thing: where should the items be put in?

We've got these:

item_1584  armor-pass.png
item_1588  armorite-ore.png
item_1587  exp-charm.png
item_1582  galarica-cuff.png
item_1581  galarica-twig.png
item_1589  mark-charm.png
item_1579  max-honey.png
item_1580  max-mushrooms.png
item_1586  rotom-bike-black.png
item_1585  rotom-bike-white.png
item_1583  style-card.png

Also, does the rotom-bike-black/rotom-bike-white replace the old rotom-bike-2 in Key Items that's currently there?

[sora10pls]

@msikma Any particular reason for the female Cap Pikachu sprites? Their ingame personal data has them set to be male only (like Gallade, Tauros etc).

[msikma]

Any particular reason for the female Cap Pikachu sprites? Their ingame personal data has them set to be male only (like Gallade, Tauros etc).

No reason, I'm aware that they can't be female. Figured I might as well do it anyway.

[sora10pls]

Fair enough! Also to answer your question about the Rotom Bike, it doesn't replace it.

1081 = Land Mode 1266 = Water Mode (upgraded) 1585 = White 1586 = Black

The player can only have 1 at a time.

[msikma]

Ah I see, so you first upgrade it to Water Mode, and after that you can optionally upgrade it to one of the black/white variants?

[sora10pls]

Correct! It also automatically applies all boost upgrades for the Bike as well if you choose to upgrade to White/Black.

[msikma]

The old Rotom bike sprites are named rotom-bike-1 and rotom-bike-2 since I didn't know they were called Land/Water. Thinking about naming them rotom-bike-land, rotom-bike-water, rotom-bike-white, rotom-bike-black. I doubt anyone would be inconvenienced by the old sprite changing name at this point, since even PKHeX doesn't use it.

[koenigderluegner]

item_1584 armor-pass.png item_1588 armorite-ore.png item_1587 exp-charm.png item_1582 galarica-cuff.png item_1581 galarica-twig.png item_1589 mark-charm.png item_1579 max-honey.png item_1580 max-mushrooms.png item_1586 rotom-bike-black.png item_1585 rotom-bike-white.png item_1583 style-card.png

I currently have those slugs:

medicine/max-honey battle-item/max-mushrooms other-item/galarica-twig evo-item/galarica-cuff key-item/style-card key-item/armor-pass key-item/rotom-bike-3 key-item/rotom-bike-4 key-item/exp-charm other-item/armorite-ore key-item/mark-charm

Item name itselves are guesses (like rotom bikes) but the categories are matched with the games

[msikma]

Thanks for helping out again in this regard, I ended up not renaming the Rotoms (from 1, 2, 3, 4 to water/land/etc) since it doesn't really matter that much what they're named. I've placed the DLC items under the categories you mentioned.

I've updated the temp docs. The Gen 8 (new) and Gen 8 (here you can see all the new Pikachu sprites), and finally the inventory list. All new DLC inventory items are there, with and without outline.

I think that's about it? There are a few other things: #77 and #78. I'll go and fix that tomorrow so that it's in the next release too. Should be quick to do.

[sora10pls]

Thanks for all your work, @msikma! End result with the sprites is spot on.

[msikma]

Last update. Added the "marks" (a type of ribbon introduced in the DLC), plus the shiny leaf/leaf crown from HGSS, and the Gigantamax icon.

Final changes:

• https://doubla.de/pokesprite/overview/dex-gen8-new.html
• https://doubla.de/pokesprite/overview/inventory.html
• https://doubla.de/pokesprite/overview/misc.html

Also updated the readme and things, so I'll put it live tomorrow.

[itsjavi]

@msikma any chance to get the mega evolution icon back too? since now we have the dynamax one

[msikma]

@msikma any chance to get the mega evolution icon back too? since now we have the dynamax one

@itsjavi I assume you mean this old one?

Currently the project does have this icon:

It's under pokemon-gen8/mega.png. This is the icon that gets overlaid on top of a regular Pokémon sprite to indicate it's Mega Evolved. That's why it's under the Pokémon directory, since it's the same size as a box sprite and goes with it.

I don't mind having an extra Mega Evolution icon under the misc section but maybe there's a better one than that really tiny one from the X/Y battle interface?

[itsjavi]

ah ok yes, I was trying to find it under misc. I think we don't have a better one unless the one from Let's Go is better.

[msikma]

Well, there is the Key Stone from Let's Go:

But that one's almost identical to the mega.png I linked, slightly smaller even when you remove the ring around it.

Unfortunately I don't have a copy of UI element rips from Let's Go so I don't know if there's anything better in there but I'll have a look and see if I can find something. I could also just crop the mega.png one and we could use that?

edit: also, the Key Stone's inventory sprite in SwSh is identical to the mega.png, except that it's centered on a 32x32 canvas.

[msikma]

Any thoughts on this?

There is a very nice bigger one in Pokémon Tretta: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Tretta_Mega_Evolution_icon.png

[msikma]

Or maybe this. This is the Tretta one but I've adapted it so it's the same size as the pixel art one, albeit retina ready (2x).

This might be useful since it's higher resolution, even though it's an edited icon.

[msikma]

I ended up adding three Mega Evolution icons.

All is merged now! Thanks everyone for helping out with tagging and error checking. 🙂