Manes

...I used to play this game too much. But. Nexon managed to turn me off with its inability to fix server bottlenecks.

The fact that people would prefer A over C bothers me too damn much. And my friend, in his 'infinite' wisdom, advised me to not seek to please myself. THEN AGAIN, it's a minor pallette swap consisting of replacing the midnight blue areas with the equivalents found in Rayquaza's Shiny. ...I really don't like that sort of black. I really. Really. Don't.

(04:57:26) Manes: http://gyazo.com/22a04b95507096e2cf67ea737a96ee73 (04:57:57) Manes: http://gyazo.com/3b47c5ccd6af7b24db468c5df593a318 (04:58:03) Manes: So which is better----A or B?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/esxuus These are the female versions. I'm gonna mess around with automated positioning for my own personal use. I personally can't wait for the results. :3

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3q458o These would be all the male backsprites, resized to 2x. A few notes: These have not been renamed. On a similar note: these don't include the shinies. That's because they weren't included in the pack, so if you've got them, kindly let me know. Durant is probably still invisible, unless that was fixed in Episode 10. (Not a Durant user, you understand.) Positioning is still required. The previous backsprite file is 160x160 pixels. The new one is 192x192 px. Please account for this. You can't give the fancy ♂ symbol to a file you upload to Sendspace without the server staring at it in confusion. (This was a personal note, but whatever.) This last note is very important: 2x doesn't match up cleanly with what's in the game files. Here's both the Snivy backsprite and the one I resized, both viewed at 100%: We might need to go as far as 3x for certain Pokémon, but I'm not a fan of this idea. It'll produce inconsistencies. Beyond that? Well, if nobody's done the renaming thing, I'll attempt to do my research into automating the process just as I did for these. This might point you in the right direction: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18383697/batch-add-string-into-filename-before-suffix

Alright. At Jacze's request on PO, I have Gen I. http://www.sendspace.com/file/cciljl

-is revived- Phew! And here I thought we'd have to do all the sprites in Gen IV-style. This is a breath of fresh air here: I can do this en masse. The one thing I can't do is mass-renaming. If anybody knows a method that can append the b to file names, let me know.

-comes back to haunt the thread- I'd probably have no problems doing it if a) I had a good backsprite image hand-drawn, and resizing actually worked right. See... I'm not a very experienced spriter. That Reverse Absol took, like, no effort. Just careful use of Absol's existing pallette. Unless somebody went and did Gen IV-style sprites of Gen V Pokémon... geez, this sentence is weird. And my death does not prevent me from doing work. I just have to be very careful when willing the keys to be pressed down. Just saying.

We have to do the whole damn thing?! All of Gen V's Pokémon plus Gen VI?! -takes gun to head- I'm done. But before I go shoot myself---have a proof of concept: Elegant Ralts, made to match Shiny Mega Gardevoir. See, I have two ideas on how Gothdevoir could work out, and both of them involve a black dress... sigh. Now please excuse me. Somebody's gotta die. ...also ame that last luxio sprite works fine and also noticed that absols front is transparent where it shouldn't be which is the top of the tail you should fix that before any casualties are incurred -pulls the trigger-

Alright, the sprites are done. Let me know if you find any inconsistencies. (I goofed and forgot to save a static image of the reverse Absol GIF, but I salvaged it. All is good.) Since you've mentioned Graphics Gale, you shouldn't have a problem resizing. If you still need them resized, let me know.

I did that myself, yes. And now that this crucial question is answered, I can begin work on the back sprite. It'll be the Gen V version to maintain consistency throughout the whole deal. ...also, a bit of an unrelated request, but can you change my name back to Manes? The Strider is out of character for me. I am, in fact, a very uncool girl. I can't rap, control time, or make phat beats. I can only draw, game and... draw.

Didn't mean to. Neon is just not a good color. :/ Also. Ame. PLEASE tell me we're going with a Gen V-styled sprite pack. You see, Reverse-Pallete Absol is not a simple recolor. Some editing needs to be done. So the sooner we can get the sprite pack thing cleared out, the less work wasted. Love the reverse-Absol idea, though.

Now that I look at the spoilertag... *clobber clobber clobber* Ame: If you'd rather I use the Gen IV back sprites, let me know. I did these in Gen V to maintain a semblance of scale consistency, but if that proves to be a problem, I have no problem using the Gen IV sprites instead.

As a test, I tweaked the fugly blue Chimchar sprite for better contrasts: EDIT: On the left is the initial one I had to work with. Middle: In which Manes tries to tweak the shading ineffectively. Right: In which Manes experiments with the *shuffles paper* ahem... "Pantone color bridge CMYK PC" on the original Chimcharr sprite. All because the other color scheme was sporking her eyes. I can also try for the original fire color with any of those three, but this requires altering the base sprite to make the fire colors not show up in odd places. Would anybody still want to see it? Also, holy shit, Imageshack asks you to get an username now? They suck. EDIT: As for what Ame showed, I personally am for it merely because of the Shadow the Hedgehog color scheme. It suits Luxio.

The flame's shade is good, but please change the skin back to its original color. It can totally work. Oooor change the skin color to grey. I'll do it tomorrow if no one does it by then.

Would xe be fine if I used the ze/hir set instead? Xe wouldn't mind, tight?

Once upon a time, in high school math class, I had a teacher. She insisted that we keep study journals and our tests in those journals (she took a lot of them back anyway?), and I was a very untidy person. I found it difficult to summarize what I had learned in a way that doesn't involve demonstrating a formula through a test. Weeks passed, months passed, then it was crunch time, and I didn't have a study journal ready. The teacher threatened to fail me. My response, in a hasted panic, was attempting to jump off the third floor of the school building. It was about 4 meters to landing. I was only stopped because I was pulled away by a boy whose face I didn't see. I was suspended for the few days that remained in the year. Was it my fault---I, with the strange mix of inflated ego and depression that pervaded my ultimately formative years? Had that been my fault? Was it the teacher's fault---who did a poor execution of an idea I still personally object to? My memory is too clouded. Maybe there is no answer. One thing's for sure. I no longer have the acuity for math that I used to have. So when it comes to true education---not the form of it parodied by these varied organizations---I lost. Doesn't matter whose fault it was, I lost a skill. As much as I want to blame someone---anyone---for this, it won't matter. And as long as education is parodied thus, students will continue losing the skills they were supposed to gain or hone.

Aaaaaaand Telmaris has no trainer left! Telmaris has whited out! (Seriously, though, I'm gonna try and salvage this, even though I left this on uncertain terms.)

Running, running, running in a zig-zag pattern. How long until the group got there? She didn't know. She didn't care---a sudden bout of anxiety had befallen her. To the steadfast Telmaris, this was a foreign emotion. "Manes... I didn't have to do anything at all in this region. Rather, I couldn't do anything. The way things are going, they're going to get worse... and I'm powerless to stop the flow of events. I'm hoping the lot of you, and Little Boy Blue and Little Girl Red get to do something worthwhile in the Sinnoh region..." She looked down at the bracelet. "Guess I'm going the rest of this journey alone."

A few things to nitpick about: -After Halloween, I still can't go back to being Manes because I lack the credits for it. Oh bother. -I downloaded HeartGold intending to play through it. I hoped to use the Randomizer to change all names to lowercase and update moves to Gen V. The latter probably worked, the former, nope! The option was greyed out. You have any idea how long I've waited for Game Freak to stop using CAPITAL NAMES for POKéMON? Ugh, seeing them bothers me so much. :V -People complain about the Pokémon Aftermath RP not getting any activity... what about Johto Adventures? I mean, dammit, people, if you're gonna complain, don't do it to the same crowd that had the only RP she could participating die out! And worse, I can't even bump it because I did the last bump. Honestly, it'd be better if it was just erased. No more false hope of it ever updating.

>Sees the Johto RP >Sighs

I couldn't really find the words to describe this until now. If you link to a post via Quote, you'd get: pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5539&page=19entry94775 But if you click on the permanent link, you get: pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5539entry94775 The page portion of that link is missing, which makes the link invalid and bounces you to the beginning of the thread. That make sense?