Vrai

Well, I'm not sure I know how to do it either to be honest. What I do is take an area I want to shade, do a quick and rough job of it, look at it and if something looks funny I go back and change it. I do this probably 20 times or more and I save ones that look alright in case I want to compare them. I think it helps to have some kind of 3D image of what you want it to look like so you don't end up with just stripes of different shades.

I think you can get away with cheating a bit, too. If one area has good looking shading then you can be lazy with the others since you have a good impression already. Yeah, if the most prominent part looks good the others can be a little simpler.

When all else fails I look for an official sprite and see how they do it. A lot of the time it's very simple.

You are still my top dog. ^.^
OMG YOU WENT TO GYM??
Rofl I bet she brainwashed her family first. :(
Huh? She's super pale or tans in a tanning bed? o.o
You are a mass Geodude killer. I should have called it. You never liked rocks that tripped you. ;;
You cannot reach the gods, sorry.
ONOMNOMNOM

Oh. Haha, alright then ^3^

copypasta >.>

The second one it is, then.

Harry is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome. ^^

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I rest my case...

Anyways, I need your help on something real quick. I can't decide between two mapping things. Here's the first and here's the second. In terms of mapping and just looking at the map as a whole, I like the second one better but for the purpose of this map (which isn't supposed to be in a game), the first one might actually be a little better. I just want your opinion on which you prefer.

Funnily, that's pretty much what was going down. It was something like, "well then, that's got to be the simplest problem that I ever did see." "Right you are, good buddy. Right you are indeed." Hm, in retrospect, maybe it was more English than Australian. I don't remember. By that time I had been sitting in the test taking room for upwards of 5 rooms so it could have been Yugoslavian for all I know.

Oh everyone has an accent. We just don't notice it because we're so used to it. It's hard to imagine what a "Californian" accent sounds like because Californian is just the normal way of talking for me. I'm sure that if I heard you talk, you would have an accent.

I actually have to go to bed now because I have a big test tomorrow so I'll talk to you later. Have a good one!

xD
Right you are, ol' buddy. Actually, for what it's worth, I think I've started to develop a decent Australian accent. It was really odd but in the middle of my Math subject test, I subconsciously started thinking in an Australian accent. Not only that, instead of just thinking, it was like there were two people in my head and they were having a conversation about the math problem, both with heavy Australian accents. It was the darnedest thing, to say nothing of hilarious. I guess I tend to do some pretty weird stuff when I'm stressed out.

Its fine don't worry about it.
I'm glad you like it because those vines were being a bi-
It was difficult <:

lol owned by the VM timelimit.

And thanks :D

Not just the small things. I spend a good portion of my time (too much, in my opinion) thinking about things that I want to do but I rarely ever actually do them. It's kind of sad when you think about it. I have all these great idea (well, I think they're great) but I never get the chance/feel the desire to go through with them. I think I just need some sort of motivation to get things done. Basically, we need to figure out what Harry has that we don't. :P

No, but I have made you a nice sprite

link

Its your favorite~

Has I done wrong D:

That's true. Just think of those group MSN conversations we had in early 2009 and I'm sure you'll feel a little better. =)

My favorite part of hacking is leaving those little goodies for the player to find. Not just hidden item balls but hidden people or even people in plain view but whose scripts' change depending on certain conditions (for example, I was planning on using my RTC to create a guy who only shows up between the hours of 12:30 and 3:30 AM, just as a present for those people who are enjoying the night like I tend to during the summer)*. Speaking of the which, I think we officially hit summer a couple days ago. I know it's not officially summer until later in June but these past couple days have been beautiful and the nights are getting way too hot for my down comforter. Today was especially nice and it's days like these that remind me of the more noticeable benefits of an outdoor campus. ;)

* I've got a whole bunch of ideas for little goodies to add. I need to start writing them down though because I forget most of them. ):

Uh oh. Looks like you're worse off than I originally thought. Though I have to tell you: you're not alone. When I actually sit down and think about it, I've never gotten up to the first gym in any of my hacks. I guess some people are just better at planning things and making steady progress while some of us prefer hacking, regardless of whether there's a product or not. I guess, for me at least, it's just about looking back at the end of the day and feeling like I did something. Now, I may not have accomplished something as grand as a finished hack but for me, it's the little things like finishing up with a script or a map that I spent hours on that makes ROM Hacking enjoyable. I don't have words to describe that feeling of elation when I discovered how to add new tile animations or how to access the RTC. But then, of course, there are those idle periods where we don't get anything done. In fact, I haven't actually made any progress on my hack since last summer. Sure, in that time I've made some discoveries but seeing how I took up ROM Hacking to pursue my goal of creating my own pokémon game, I've gotten no closer to that goal in almost a year's time.
I don't really know what I'm getting at here. I guess it's just that you have to enjoy the little things in ROM Hacking and not get down when it seems like you're getting nowhere. Though you may look back on it and think that it was a waste of time, you can't honestly say that you didn't enjoy yourself, can you? It's not wasted time if you had fun.

I think I know how you feel. I go through ups and downs with ROM Hacking and this community. Sometimes I come online only to find that none of the threads that I'm actually interested in have been posted in and the only new posts are by n00bs and I get so frustrated with the state of hacking. I guess that all I can tell you is that it's a phase and that you, hopefully, will get over it. You just have to stick it out for now. I wish I could motivate you somehow but I don't know what I can do. If you think of anything, let me know ASAP.

I was saying "I sure hope it is" to the "Perhaps" comment, not the avatar thing. Hm, perhaps we should stop using this ALSO format?

Alright well when I finish with my finals I'll be sure to get on your nerves every waking hour. I want this just as much as you do.

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Want some motivation? I have one gym of Stardrop that needs a player. ;)