Help with making a custom racer & follower addon

[DoodleDew155]

So, I'm completely new to modding and coding in general, so sorry if some of my questions might seem stupid. I have been following this tutorial for my racers and am planning to use this for the followers, although I havent looked through that one much yet.

First thing, (not really a question but just something I noticed) when I was playing, it seemed like characters had two different "look back" sprites. It could be that the second one is actually the drifting sprite, although I still dont know why it would show that sprite, cause I wasnt drifting.

Second thing is making a custom pallete, is this encouraged within the community or do we rather have that you use an already existing pallete? From the characters I have planned as of now, 2 of the 6 would require a custom pallete (those being Master Shake (because he has blue shadows on him in the show and I want to keep it like that) and my OC/Persona (because the color of their jacket cant be perfectly replicated with the limited 256 color pallete, so I want to use a checkered dithering technique to replicate it)). For the followers as of now, 2 of the 4 will need custom palletes, although I probably gonna add more followers sooner rather than later, so that list will probably change

Third thing, can you make custom racers with SLADE? If so, could someone link me to a tutorial. I'm on Mac (I know I know, throw all the tomatoes you can) so i cant download kartmaker. I know you can make followers with it, according to the previously mentioned tutorial, but I dont know about racers.

Fourth thing, keeping with Slade, why are sprites displayed in grayscale? At first I thought it were only the parts that are effect when you select a different pallete, but no. All of them are like this. Also, is there a screenshot or some kind of list that state which colors are mapped to the greens for palletes?

Last thing, how disencouraged is it to edit addons that say you can't? What I mean is: say I download an addon that says I'm not allowed to modify it. I then still modify my downloaded version which I dont share with anyone. Would this be okay? Or still no?

 

[DylanDude]

First thing, (not really a question but just something I noticed) when I was playing, it seemed like characters had two different "look back" sprites. It could be that the second one is actually the drifting sprite, although I still dont know why it would show that sprite, cause I wasnt drifting.

They have a sprite for looking behind them manually, and another for looking at a racer near them.

Second thing is making a custom pallete, is this encouraged within the community or do we rather have that you use an already existing pallete?

Do you mean a custom skincolor? This is nominally fine, but you really shouldn't rely on it. It limits the player's options to such a degree that many people won't want to play as your character if they need a specific skincolor to work. If you instead mean a custom palette (as in, introducing colors not in Ring Racers' 256 color palette) and not a custom skincolor, that is not possible as Ring Racers cannot load a palette on a per-character basis.

Third thing, can you make custom racers with SLADE? If so, could someone link me to a tutorial. I'm on Mac (I know I know, throw all the tomatoes you can) so i cant download kartmaker.

From a strictly technical definition, yes, but you really shouldn't. It's a lot harder, and you'll have to manually replicate a lot of effects yourself. A Mac build of Kartmaker can be compiled from here, or a pre-compiled version can be found on the Kart Krew Discord server here.

Fourth thing, keeping with Slade, why are sprites displayed in grayscale?

You need to select the SRB2 palette in the upper right.

Last thing, how disencouraged is it to edit addons that say you can't? What I mean is: say I download an addon that says I'm not allowed to modify it. I then still modify my downloaded version which I dont share with anyone. Would this be okay?

That is absolutely fine, most people here has done that at some point. Just don't share them and it's all good.

 

[DoodleDew155]

They have a sprite for looking behind them manually, and another for looking at a racer near them.

And the one of those is the same as the drifting sprite, right?

Do you mean a custom skincolor?

I'm referring to the colors you get by the spraycans. If those are referred to as "skincolors", then yes. Also, do people really get that annoyed by custom spraycans? Or did you still assume I was talking about a pallete that out of the 256 color pallete

A Mac build of Kartmaker can be compiled from here, or a pre-compiled version can be found on the Kart Krew Discord server here.

For some reason, the links dont work for me. Do you maybe have different links? Or maybe you could send it to me on discord?

But anyway, thank you for answering my questions! It means a lot!

 

[DylanDude]

And the one of those is the same as the drifting sprite, right?

The glance sprite (looking at another racer beside them) is the same as the drifting sprite, yes.

I'm referring to the colors you get by the spraycans.

Yes, those are called skincolors in the community, hence the category dedicated to it in the addons board. You are perfectly allowed to include custom skincolors, my warning was simply that you shouldn't design a character that relies upon the player using that custom skincolor. That would not look good to most players.

For some reason, the links dont work for me.

Pasting failure, whoops. Here are the links again:

GitHub - lachablock/kartmaker-mac: Fork of kartmaker that compiles on macOS.

Fork of kartmaker that compiles on macOS. Contribute to lachablock/kartmaker-mac development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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[King Sonic]

Look's great.

 

[DoodleDew155]

Look's great.

I’m sorry but, I didn’t make those sprites. Woon (the moon guy) is from the Mcpig collection and AOSTH Robotnik is from Elanio’s jerk pack (or I think thats what it was called.