Character Creation Experimentation Help

[SpaceKGreen]

With my race level on hiatus for now, I'm currently experimenting with character wads in an attempt to find a combination I like that isn't too overpowered, before I start making a fully custom character. One of my experiments is a higher jump height, but I seem to be having a problem. The "jumpheight" variable doesn't seem to affect gameplay one bit, and the SRB2 wiki is mysteriously missing that entry. Is it broken, or am I setting the variable wrong? (It's currently at 200)

I've even opened up a HMS123311 wad I downloaded a while back but it didn't shed any light on the matter. In fact I didn't see anything in there that even resembled HMS123311's abilities. Did those get hardcoded into SRB2 or something?



Any hints, tips, or answers would be highly appreciated.

 

[Princess Plushima]

Jump height effects gameplay, barely. It has a cap of 100, anything more simply has no effect.

 

[Lightning The Fox]

Plus the fact that HMS123311's abilities are inside of JTE doesn't help for that matter either. Simply leave the variable at 100 like Draykon said and that's it.

 

[SpaceKGreen]

That's too bad. I was hoping for a high jump ability that could be followed by a short glide. Ah well.

I have a new question now. What is the format used by SRB2 sprites? I've looked through the Wiki and all it mentions is that custom graphics have to follow a certain palette.

 

[xxBeanGirl420xx]

Bitmaps (BMPs) are best to use. Lossless quality, and XWE likes it. PNGs are nononono.

 

[SpaceKGreen]

Okay. Thank you for the help.



I have one last question for now. What are the current views on Advance-style sprites? In my past work with sprites, those were the most common medium I used, and although I wasn't very good at "from scratch" sprites, I was pretty good at cutting and reassembling.

For example, here's one of my earliest:

(Sure, my character's not much more than an edit, but I've become attached to the design.)

Further examples:

An advance warning on what I could expect as a reaction would be appreciated.

 

[Princess Plushima]

Advance style are practically sprite rips, which are explicitly against the Releases section rules.

 

[SpaceKGreen]

So in this case, if I make the character, I should keep it to myself, right?

Maybe if I start with Advance as a placeholder, and then slowly replace each with custom SRB2 style sprites, after which it should be worthy of release...


Anyways, thanks. You've all been very helpful.