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RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Dazz - 04-29-2012
I'll try to make a quick explanation here.
Basically, the images aren't solid - they're artwork which has pixels around them which are semi-transparent. So ranging from 1% to 100%, making the curves and edges look smooth. Unlike your usual sprites, these will blend into the background more because it will have colours of the background included.
This is used in the tool shelf so that when the tool is over the background of the shelf, it won't look pixely and nasty, and it also won't have random colours that aren't relevant to the colour of the background.
Mario & Luigi for the DS and GBA replicate this, using slightly lighter black colours on the border of the sprites, to make it blend a bit more - it's a neutral colour, and makes the sprites look smoother. It's like anti-aliasing, basically.
![[+]](images/collapse_collapsed.png "[+]")
Spoiler![[Image: Hue_alpha.png]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Hue_alpha.png)
The glow is just an easy way of showing it in a larger lump of colour, but it applies to the border of some smaller sprites too, though rarely. It's often hard to see
![[Image: may.png]](http://spriters-resource.com/other_systems/crossedge/may.png)
As an example though, copy this sheet and paste it into paint, and it'll have a black background - if you fill that black into a different colour, the sprites will have a black border - but looking at the sheet here, the sprites don't have black borders. This is because the semi-transparency surrounding these sprites blended into the black from pasting it into paint.
The way around this is to save the sheet, and open it using photoshop, gimp, or something of that nature - it'll keep the transparency, and let you have the sprites blend better over other colour backgrounds.
Make sense?
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - puggsoy - 04-29-2012
I understand. Actually, I knew most of that, but now it's made it clear to me. The thing is, I didn't realise that the borders of the tools in Tool Shelf were semi-transparent (pretty hard to see) so I didn't get the point.
So I was right: if there's a semi-transparent glow on a sprite, give it a transparent background. Looks like I'll have to change this sheet then, right? That "©2011 LEVEL-5 Inc." is semi-transparent (the top one, not the bottom one), but I just put it against the green BG. Luckily I keep all my images in .xcf format so it'll be a piece of cake to change.
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Dazz - 04-29-2012
Ahh, yeah, probably.
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - redblueyellow - 04-29-2012
Enemy 26 added 4/29:
![[Image: enemy26icon.png]](http://i.minus.com/iqaBcd9LinVnf.PNG)
Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku
Thanks for the explanation Dazz.
I hadn't really had much experience with sprites that had semi-transparency, but I understand it more now.
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Garamonde - 04-29-2012
Nice.
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Dazz - 04-30-2012
RBY, would you mind if I started to rip some sprites from this game? Been itching to get my mass ripping on, and this game has a lot of content I'd love to push out!
I'll ignore enemies for now since you have those handled, and just do overworlds to start with, if that's cool with you?
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - redblueyellow - 04-30-2012
Sounds good to me!
I see that you already got the mugshots up 
, but if you could leave me the backgrounds, support characters, Kururu and Tamama (hopefully that isn't claiming too much :/) then that would be awesome. Ploaj is also working on some stuff, so you may need to PM him.
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Dazz - 04-30-2012
No worries dude, I'm just going to do the playable overworlds
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Solink - 04-30-2012
Hey Dazz(or whoever put the keroro sprites up) you forgot enemy 24, the dinosaur-like one on the previous page.
Great job RBY, I really liked that anime!
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Garamonde - 04-30-2012
Oh whoops! Sorry 'bout that. Got it up now (I upload most of them BTW
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RE: redblueyellow's submissions - redblueyellow - 05-01-2012
Enemy 27 added 5/1:
![[Image: enemy27icon.png]](http://i.minus.com/ibe5gfanxByEap.PNG)
Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku
Happy May everyone!
For the next 5 weeks I will unfortunately be cutting back the amount of ripping I do a bit in order to catch up with schoolwork.
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Garamonde - 05-01-2012
Got it.
Also don't worry about taking breaks, you have to do what you have to do, and we'll always be here when you get back.
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - redblueyellow - 05-04-2012
Cards (Small), (Medium) and (Large) added 5/4:
![[Image: smallcardsicon.png]](http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk175/redblueyellows/Pokemon%20Card%20Game%20Asobikata/smallcards.png)
![[Image: mediumcardsicon.png]](http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk175/redblueyellows/Pokemon%20Card%20Game%20Asobikata/mediumcards.png)
![[Image: largecardsicon.png]](http://i.minus.com/iyKusuAHQIWff.PNG)
Pokemon Card Game Asobikata (DS)
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - Dazz - 05-04-2012
Uploaded!
RE: redblueyellow's submissions - redblueyellow - 05-05-2012
Enemy 28 and Rock Paper Scissors added 5/5:
![[Image: enemy28icon.png]](http://i.minus.com/ikVP0RpXxCJh3.PNG)
Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku
![[Image: rockpaperscissorsicon.png]](http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk175/redblueyellows/Pokemon%20Card%20Game%20Asobikata/rockpaperscissors.png)
Pokemon Card Game Asobikata