I would also like to add some technical advices, if you'd like to make your skins to blend better with vanilla ones.
1. I've noticed that you are using vanilla (duh) or UPEP skins as a base and that's ok. But since I use UPEP and Yours (mostly to replace some ugly UPEP ones) i see that some elements, like houndmaster's hound, man-at-arms' or occultist's skin color, and about half of the Leper's armor has not been altered by you at all. I strongly encourage you to do so, simply to make your skins more unique and to avoid accusations of ripping-off somebody's work. 2. You have a tendency to make your skins just a tiny little too dark compared to vanilla ones (same thing with UPEP). Bounty Hunter or Flagellant are fine examples. 3. Some elements of clothing and armor pieces have "universal" color and should not be altered. For example Highwayman's shirt or Grave Robber's pouch.
1) I see where it's coming from, and I'm glad that you noted that. I plan to work on refreshing some of the skins (along with fixing mistakes like Antiquarian's dress not being fully colored in her defend sprite).
2) BH's skin is what I'm not very glad about, probably because it looked a bit different in GIMP compared to the game.
3) Ah, that's also true. My concern was just colors matching the whole scheme, or the HWM's skin looking just as an "orange scarf version of his ugly yellow skin in vanilla".
Anyway, thank you again for these notes, I'll keep them in mind.
Lovely! I'm a great fan of classic, nice looking alternative palettes. I hope you will not stop there! :) I can't wait to see your bounty hunter, plague doctor or crusader. :)
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I would also like to add some technical advices, if you'd like to make your skins to blend better with vanilla ones.
1. I've noticed that you are using vanilla (duh) or UPEP skins as a base and that's ok. But since I use UPEP and Yours (mostly to replace some ugly UPEP ones) i see that some elements, like houndmaster's hound, man-at-arms' or occultist's skin color, and about half of the Leper's armor has not been altered by you at all. I strongly encourage you to do so, simply to make your skins more unique and to avoid accusations of ripping-off somebody's work.
2. You have a tendency to make your skins just a tiny little too dark compared to vanilla ones (same thing with UPEP). Bounty Hunter or Flagellant are fine examples.
3. Some elements of clothing and armor pieces have "universal" color and should not be altered. For example Highwayman's shirt or Grave Robber's pouch.
1) I see where it's coming from, and I'm glad that you noted that. I plan to work on refreshing some of the skins (along with fixing mistakes like Antiquarian's dress not being fully colored in her defend sprite).
2) BH's skin is what I'm not very glad about, probably because it looked a bit different in GIMP compared to the game.
3) Ah, that's also true. My concern was just colors matching the whole scheme, or the HWM's skin looking just as an "orange scarf version of his ugly yellow skin in vanilla".
Anyway, thank you again for these notes, I'll keep them in mind.