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   This is for my upcoming shmup.

I call it Heavy Machine Librala. I tried to make it detailed but my color ppalette has major restrictions. It is lighter in real life i haven't finished all the shading yet.

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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Topic: Heavy Machine Librala Posted: 14 March 2006 at 9:31am
	This is for my upcoming shmup. I call it Heavy Machine Librala. I tried to make it detailed but my color ppalette has major restrictions. It is lighter in real life i haven't finished all the shading yet. Edited by Pixel_Outlaw

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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 14 March 2006 at 5:53pm
	You might want to revisit the top fin. Those lines are fugly (the 223223223s and 13113113s). Can you add a light blue color to the matal?
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Psychotic_Carp Commander Joined: 02 April 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1008	Posted: 14 March 2006 at 8:29pm
	pretty neat so far but the green needs less contrast
	got game?
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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 14 March 2006 at 8:53pm
	Well here is the colors i'm limited to: This is for my NES tribute. I'm making a nes themed game if you have any onterest see the jobs section.

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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 14 March 2006 at 9:04pm
	Outlaw how about OC and 1C (or just 31) to give the metal sections a bit of sparkle. And a highlight of 28 to the purple gear. I just noticed you already have some blue on the studs, use those to do the same to other metal sections.
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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 14 March 2006 at 9:08pm
	I'll try it and get back on it tomorrow thanks pal. I guess it helps folks to see my color limitations. Man those artists had it ruff back in the late 70's. It makes me appreciate their art they were poineers for their time and that is why this game is a tribute to well done anime ship games. UPDATE Go ahead and shade the metal parts if you wish i'm not sure what you mean... :( Edited by Pixel_Outlaw

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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 7:37am
	Outlaw, I don't make game sprites so I may be way off in my suggestions, take them with caution. There's a major color shift between your image and mine. It seems that your PC is not calibrated so if you use my image in any way I recommend that you re-color it. I also noticed that you create circles with a "tool", so your image contains pixels that while not visible, surround the outlines, these will become solid (white if gif) when you save your image, in the future you might want to draw these by hand to be safe. I added a fin and some details to balance your ship. The main thing I'm trying to show is how boring greys are in pixelart, particularly in machinery. I also added some violet highlights to the round thing on the back to balance things out. Edited by jalonso
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Sibix Commander Joined: 12 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 200	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 9:32am
	thats very nice jolanso :O
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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 9:54am
	frEAKIN LOVELY!!! My original image was done in Autocad for accuracy then made into a bmp. How should i go about recalibrating? Edited by Pixel_Outlaw

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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 10:13am
	I've never heard of using Autocad to help with pixelart. Do you do this for the circles? As far as the calibration, I am more creative than technical so I don't really know how to do that. I use Pantone software/scanner to calibrate since I work with colors in the real world, I suppose Windows has some sort of calibration system in the "controls/settings" or whatever windows OS calls it. If you use Photoshop to create your art (guess not makin BPMs), Adobe has a free color utility that works well. EDIT: I meant the embbeded color profile in your image not the calibration of your monitor, which I could not possibly know about since I've never been to your place. I only pointed this out because you are creating your sprites using the NES color palette and my image shifted from yours. Edited by jalonso
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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 10:41am
	I see well autocad can export into bmp(it is often not symmetrical) and then i just retrace the lines and clear things up.

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Shark Commander a.k.a. Feron Joined: 02 July 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2136	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 12:01pm
	isnt it just quicker to make the lines from scratch in paint? Edited by Shark
	Snark, we love yuu.
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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 12:34pm
	No. i can get porportions easly this way. I know that part a is 30% the size of part b.

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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 08 January 2026 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 12:47pm
	exactly what is it?
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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 15 March 2006 at 7:49pm
	Well ist's on of those anime looking ships that have the huge glowing orb eye things. And shoots spurts of bullets in all directions.

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