Shining Force Update

[ladyabaxa]

In the lull between playthroughs I've been working some more on my Shining Force 2 mod. Just cleaning up the graphics bit by bit is taking a long time although it's nice to work on my pixel art skill set. Here's a comparison of portrait edits thus far. The original ones are in the left column while my edited versions are in the right column.



Mostly this has just been removing eyebrows. It's a style to leave them (and eyes) in with transparency but the Genesis simply can't do transparent blending to make the style look nice. I also changed color 0 to something that's not the same black used for outlining. This doesn't do anything in-game (color 0 is always transparent on the Genesis) but it saves a lot of headache for me.

Comments

[omnimirror.livejournal.com]

It's good to see you back in action. I always find it so intriguing and impressive that you are able to go so far in depth in the gaming world. I'll admit that this sort of thing inspired me to start making MTGO draft videos (although I'm very much NOT-uber...yet).

I hope you're able to craft SF2 in your ideal vision. I'll give it a go sometime. :)

[ladyabaxa.livejournal.com]

The tools I have at my disposal are limited but I'll make it something interesting to watch and that still provides some challenge for me as a player. Learning to mod, however, is a cathartic sort of experience.