Ring Racers Custom Characters Sprite Sheet Confusion

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Bifiankin

Bifiankin

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Dear SRB2(K) community & Message Board

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to be talking about Robotnik's Ring Racers, as this was the forum linked to the download page of RR, however, there wasn't a subsection for RR like SRB2K had. regardless, I'm interested about making my own characters to put in Ring Racers, but the sprite sheet in the game files to make the character has no indication of what sprite is what eg. hurt, normal etc. if anyone could give me directions on what sprite is what, or is able to rip an actual sprite sheet from one of the game's current characters in the PK3 files, that would be really helpful.
Thanks
Bifiankin
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Here's a better reference. Was sent to me by MotorRoach, though I don't know who the original creator is.
 
Great! Thank you so much! Is there anything I need to do with the bottom 2 rows? Are they just placeholders?
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Oh and just one other thing, is there a certain colour palette I need to use for the RGB colours in game? Is it the shade of green that Tails is in this reference. So anything I want to be colour change-able, I need to colour it as that green?

Thanks,
Oliver.
 
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Bifiankin said:
Great! Thank you so much! Is there anything I need to do with the bottom 2 rows? Are they just placeholders?
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Oh and just one other thing, is there a certain colour palette I need to use for the RGB colours in game? Is it the shade of green that Tails is in this reference. So anything I want to be colour change-able, I need to colour it as that green?

Thanks,
Oliver.
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The answer's "yes" to both of those.
 
Redy said:
I have one question, for the sign post sprite you need a whole sign post or just the image that goes on it?
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For the sign, it’s only the image inside, however you might be able to edit the sign itself, since the sprite is transparent, such as that in my attempt of drawing this yesterday, your character can pop out of the sign a bit. Hope this helps!
 
From what I see, the death animation when your character gets blown off your kart looks to have two frames (but I might be wrong).

I do know there's an unlockable character that has this quirk, but I don't wanna spoil the character in particular.
 
SuperMarineWorld said:
From what I see, the death animation when your character gets blown off your kart looks to have two frames (but I might be wrong).

I do know there's an unlockable character that has this quirk, but I don't wanna spoil the character in particular.
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From what I saw in gameplay. When your character explodes, the first
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Frame is the impact frame. The frame you see the second your character gets crushed or is about to explode.

The 2nd frame flips left and right, once your character is yeeted out of thier kart. Which, makes my sprite a bit janky. I used the default base example folder, the asymmetrical one and the other 2 might have different properties, plus it was the easiest since I don’t know how to code properly. I think with some coding knowledge, you could display multiple frames of the explosion animation.

Also I think lets keep the thread spoiler free. Just because, well. There’s still a lot I haven’t discovered plus this thread is getting traffic from other users. :)

Also also, when using addon characters, their statistics are kept like the base characters in the records menu. So thats cool. Plus I could set my addon character as my default profile character as long as I loaded the addon prior to going to the character selection screen.
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Bifiankin said:
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For the sign, it’s only the image inside, however you might be able to edit the sign itself, since the sprite is transparent, such as that in my attempt of drawing this yesterday, your character can pop out of the sign a bit. Hope this helps!
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If I may ask, did you happen to test out the WAD for your blue chameleon OC? Did the "look back" sprites work properly?

Just a moment ago, I successfully created my very first, fully-functional custom racer with assymmetrical sprites. When I tested it, I saw that most sprites were working as intended, but the game -- for some reason -- uses the "glance/drift" sprites for reverse driving. As such, the "look back" sprites ended up being unused.

Does this normally happen with assymmetrical sprites, or do symmetrical ones also suffer from the same problem?
 
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slippery sancocho said:
If I may ask, did you happen to test out the WAD for your blue chameleon OC? Did the "look back" sprites work properly?

Just a moment ago, I successfully created my very first, fully-functional custom racer with assymmetrical sprites. When I tested it, I saw that most sprites were working as intended, but the game -- for some reason -- uses the "glance/drift" sprites for reverse driving. As such, the "look back" sprites ended up being unused.

Does this normally happen with asymmetrical sprites, or do symmetrical ones also suffer from the same problem?
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the sheet I used is the symmetrical one and I see my look back and glance to be rather inconsistent. Ill look back at times and it will either be look back or glance. I’m not sure what the parameters are that the game uses to decide which sprite is used. Sorry.

P.s I didn't even use slade for my character, it’s still a pk3 lol. Probably should’ve though.
 
Is there any reason why these sheets include multiple slots for death sprites? I don't recall many characters beyond one in vanilla animating the death sprite, and it just leads to extra work trimming out unused lumps.
 
Scizor300 said:
Is there any reason why these sheets include multiple slots for death sprites? I don't recall many characters beyond one in vanilla animating the death sprite, and it just leads to extra work trimming out unused lumps.
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Just edit the template if you don't want death animations? Billy Hatcher, Bomb, Chao, Ecco, Emerl, Gum, Heavy Magician, Rappy, and Sakura all have animated ones.
 
Togen said:
Just edit the template if you don't want death animations? Billy Hatcher, Bomb, Chao, Ecco, Emerl, Gum, Heavy Magician, Rappy, and Sakura all have animated ones.
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That's fine, it's just something that needs more clarity on the sheet itself, for people who may or may not want to take advantage of it.
 
Is it possible for the property.txt file to have more than one startcolor value? I'm trying to work on a character that possesses colorable pixels from the 96-119 and 88-95 ranges, since apparently the unlockable character Carol has colorable pixels from both of these ranges. I'm pretty sure this is possible, but the wiki says nothing about it, so I want to know the syntax for adding mutliple startcolor values.
 
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slippery sancocho said:
apparently the unlockable character Carol has colorable pixels from both [the 96-119 and 88-95] ranges
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Carol does not.
(88~95 is the color range for her eyes, and that stays static for any skincolor. Byzantium shown for clarity)
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The reason why the lookback sprites are so inconsistent is because those are reserved for taunting opponents (the same conditions that cause your follower to honk). If your racer goes into the glance sprites without you initiating a drift or turn or going backwards, then looking back will actually use the lookback sprites.
 
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