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Overview
Two ideas have always excited me; the first is the ability to customise the character you play as, and the second is to see other series cross over into my favourite games.
With the pret dissassemblies getting closer to being complete and the restrictions of binary hacking being lifted I felt it was necessary to provide compatible resources.
So to that end I commissioned an artist, the incredible iametrine, to create an overworld base with all the necessary frames for a playable character in Gen IV style; along with a number of characters to provide a good starting point for this project.
There are three goals of this project:
Once goal #1 is complete I will provide a base using pokeemerald, with all the overworlds added.
Base:
The base has all the necessary frames for walking, running, cycling, fishing, watering, field move and surfing.
There are no acro bike frames as that would add another 27 frames per character.
There are no diving frames as I plan to handle that dynamically when entering an underwater map by tinting the palette in-game.
or
The older/taller characters are slightly larger (by 1 pixel)
Asymmetric overworlds:
(+ 1)
Note that Ethan and Lucas use the first field move pose, and Lyra and Dawn use the 2nd.
Complete characters
Pok�mon
Digimon
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Super Mario
NPCs
Dragon Ball
Fullmetal Alchemist
Runescape
Mass Effect
God of War
Rick and Morty
Stephen King's I.T
Incomplete
Pok�mon
Contributing
Two ideas have always excited me; the first is the ability to customise the character you play as, and the second is to see other series cross over into my favourite games.
With the pret dissassemblies getting closer to being complete and the restrictions of binary hacking being lifted I felt it was necessary to provide compatible resources.
So to that end I commissioned an artist, the incredible iametrine, to create an overworld base with all the necessary frames for a playable character in Gen IV style; along with a number of characters to provide a good starting point for this project.
There are three goals of this project:
- Provide accurate overworlds for every character in the generation III games.
- Provide sprites for every playable character in the main series.
- Provide complete sets of playable characters and NPCs for non-pokemon series
Once goal #1 is complete I will provide a base using pokeemerald, with all the overworlds added.
Base:
The base has all the necessary frames for walking, running, cycling, fishing, watering, field move and surfing.
There are no acro bike frames as that would add another 27 frames per character.
There are no diving frames as I plan to handle that dynamically when entering an underwater map by tinting the palette in-game.
The older/taller characters are slightly larger (by 1 pixel)
Asymmetric overworlds:
Note that Ethan and Lucas use the first field move pose, and Lyra and Dawn use the 2nd.
Complete characters
Pok�mon
Spoiler:
Digimon
Spoiler:
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Spoiler:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Spoiler:
Super Mario
Spoiler:
NPCs
Dragon Ball
Spoiler:
Fullmetal Alchemist
Spoiler:
Runescape
Spoiler:
Mass Effect
Spoiler:
God of War
Spoiler:
Rick and Morty
Spoiler:
Stephen King's I.T
Spoiler:
Pok�mon
Spoiler:
Contributing
To make graphics compatible with the pret projects, the spritesheets need to be saved as a .png file, with a bit depth of 4 allowing for a maximum of 16 colours.
To format a sheet using GraphicsGale:
Ensure the background colour is in the first palette index as that will become transparent in-game.
All Frames > Color Depth and select 4bpp.
Save As, and make sure "With Alpha Channel" is unselected.
For playable characters the entire set needs to use the same palette so I suggest combining the poses into one sheet, format it using GraphicsGale or similar and then split it up into:
Walk+Run
Bike
Fishing
Watering
Field move
Surfing.
Full set with field move 1.
Full set with field move 2.
The background colour can be anything but I would like to implement a system where each background colour is unique to the artist that created the sprite, just as a quick way of seeing who made what.
Any spritesheet posted in the complete section of this post should be usable with no edits necessary.
The base is there as a guideline but it is just that, and you don't need to use the sprites from the incomplete section if you want to make your own.
For anyone wanting to add their own characters using the disassemblies I've written this tutorial: https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/wiki/Adding-new-overworlds though it should be noted that pokeemerald is around 67% decompiled at the time of writing this so it is still limited in what can be done and it is not in a user friendly state.
And that's it. I hope this resource is of use to people and I'm excited to see what people make with it.
To format a sheet using GraphicsGale:
Ensure the background colour is in the first palette index as that will become transparent in-game.
All Frames > Color Depth and select 4bpp.
Save As, and make sure "With Alpha Channel" is unselected.
For playable characters the entire set needs to use the same palette so I suggest combining the poses into one sheet, format it using GraphicsGale or similar and then split it up into:
Walk+Run
Bike
Fishing
Watering
Field move
Surfing.
Full set with field move 1.
Full set with field move 2.
The background colour can be anything but I would like to implement a system where each background colour is unique to the artist that created the sprite, just as a quick way of seeing who made what.
Any spritesheet posted in the complete section of this post should be usable with no edits necessary.
The base is there as a guideline but it is just that, and you don't need to use the sprites from the incomplete section if you want to make your own.
For anyone wanting to add their own characters using the disassemblies I've written this tutorial: https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/wiki/Adding-new-overworlds though it should be noted that pokeemerald is around 67% decompiled at the time of writing this so it is still limited in what can be done and it is not in a user friendly state.
And that's it. I hope this resource is of use to people and I'm excited to see what people make with it.
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