[Gamingstaff]

Maybe instead of having a list of characters to choose from (Jenna, kraden, isaac, garet, etc.) maybe it'd be cool to make it so that you can change everything about your character to a certain extent. for example, it's like those matching body part games they have for those kids. you can cycle through different heads of each character and bodies and legs and arms and hair etc, and then you can change the color of your character's eyes or their clothing or their skin tone etc.

I don't know how the coding would work because I don't do flash, but as for different colors and body parts, just go onto a simple program like photoshop, and then use the wand tool to take away certain parts, and then you can have different color options by changing each images hue and color (it's an option that you can achieve by pressing command U on a mac and i suppose ctrl U on a windows when in photoshop.)

It's not brilliant because im sure everyone else has thought of this, but ill throw the idea out there.

[Split Infinity]

Interesting idea you have there GS, although I myself would rather use the original sprites.

[Mindpatch]

How about an open slot and we have a contest who can make the most golden sun looky character and let it be in there.

[Split Infinity]

But then they would have to design all of the different poses as well, which would take ages.

[Gamingstaff]

true. and another problem would be that its kind of hard to make the most GS looking character when you are using all golden sun character body parts :-P. And as for wanting to use the original sprites, you can make an isaac or jenna because it will have their body parts.. so its an either or situation.

[Mars Djinni]

It will take ages, because none of them will match correctly without proper fine-tuning. There are, what, 3 sprites of each direction (8), and if there's running, another 24 more. That's a lot of spriting :angry:

[Gamingstaff]

lol, i've had to do something like this before, and it was hard, but if you just make it the proper fine "tuning" like you said, it will look fine. Either that or just have it so that you can't change body parts but you can change your characters clothing color and eye color and maybe some different hair styles. That would be a lot easier and maybe even a better option overall.

[Mars Djinni]

Different Eye and Hair colour would be a better choice, IMO. It doesn't requite much work.

[Gamingstaff]

I suggest that these would be the things you could change:

Eye color
Hair color
torso color
and pants color

If there are 3 sprites per direction and 8 directions, and then times 4 (i have to write it out :-P..... j/k) 96 different sprites. I would offer to help recolor, and if we got a few more volunteers that actually kept to their word to actually work, we could do that in about a week.

[Someone Else]

The answer was no before, the answer is probably still no.

FAQ said:

Custom characters will not be supported nor implemented unless noted otherwise.

[Gamingstaff]

maybe max couldn't find a way to make it work at first, and this is the suggestions forum, and so i am suggesting a way to make it work.

[Max]

The eyes are two black pixels, so eye color wouldn't really make much sense. I could maybe see doing different shirt or hair colors, but that is still pretty hard. I don't want to have umpteen different versions of each sprite, both for practical file size issues and also coding issues.

I understand why you guys would want something like this, and I will explore the possibilty in the future.

[Blink]

Maybe color variations of characters, to have 3 versions? And you could change your color at a shop for x amount of money. That could work, I have the programs to do color changes fairly well, very quickly.

[Sea of Time]

All those different characters would probably really slow down the system! I agree with Max and I'll restate what I've said before again, let's get a basic version before we start making suggestions. We can't really make suggestions on what we don't have.

[nightwing]

How about guild building where you can sign up for guilds in the game to form party members to fight against the NPC's and also against clan's!!!

[Max]

nightwing, please go read the rules. I understand you are a new member, but you must follow the rules. Digging a 1.5 year old topic is not acceptable behavior. Not only that, but the idea is off-topic. Please create a new thread if you want to post ideas.

[Mathak Kraven]

Sea_of_Time, on May 17 2006, 02:56 PM, said:

All those different characters would probably really slow down the system! I agree with Max and I'll restate what I've said before again, let's get a basic version before we start making suggestions. We can't really make suggestions on what we don't have.

Best suggestion ever.

It's useless to have alot of content for an incomplete game.

[slomz]

I think it's fine to make suggestions. Better to have suggestions way in advance then to think of something when it finally does work and struggle to get it all in. No one has to take suggestions seriously but if you do then this is the place.

[Mallick]

slomz, on Jan 16 2008, 01:33 PM, said:

I think it's fine to make suggestions. Better to have suggestions way in advance then to think of something when it finally does work and struggle to get it all in. No one has to take suggestions seriously but if you do then this is the place.

QFT