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I've just finished my redo of Glimmering Galleon. I've made the level design a little bit better. Now this level is pretty big, ergo large files... and I had to upload it to my deviantart in four pieces. Ocean Icy foreground and background Masts Ship Because of this being hard to put together, Here ...

I would remove the overtly male names from the list, like Leo and Peeta (I'm assuming "Peeta" should sound like "Peter"), since the cheetah is a female character.

Okay, I'm going to try to not explode all over this thread... but recently, I've been making some awesome stuff and I really want to share it. The wolf is totally done. I need to get some better pictures, though, because the lighting in the ceramics studio is terrible. The lion isn't done. He's read...

Well. That sure is odd... to say the least... I always wondered why DK never had a "yellow team" colour... that always bothered me. For some reason, I always liked the idea of team colours for the DKC series and I always liked the yellow team even though I don't care much for the colour ye...

Kimi... that will forever haunt me... I think I am going to redo Glimmering Galleon. I've made a handful of levels since my first, and I still really love my concept for Glimmering Galleon. I think it's time for that level to get a nice update and make everything flow much better. I already have an ...

They all sound pretty good for the most part. I really hope that I don't offend anybody by commenting, so please don't take offense! The one character that stuck out to me as maybe needing either to be reconsidered or ask them to speak a little differently is Krow. Although I never personally though...

My latest level is now up :) Here is where you can find it. Also, I have another little thing in case anybody is interested. The one guy that's helping out with the DKC4 project (Christopher) made the background of Sunken Spruce tile-able by adding in some stuff on the edges. I took his image and ri...

Okay, so it isn't done yet... but I'm pretty excited about the ideas I've had for this level, so I wanted to go ahead and make a fake screenshot to show you guys what I'm thinking...

Fungi forest fake screenshot:


I'll post here again when I'm done with the level.

Happy birthday, Qyz!

Here are my thoughts. She should have to hit a button to kill enemies even when running, making her different than Rambi. I think she should be similar to a cart in that she can get a boost of speed when touching a plus barrel, minus barrels would slow her down. She shouldn't be able to jump as far ...

I like it!

I also like your little sketches. The dumb cheetah is pretty funny. I'd love to see more of your sketches. They're pretty awesome!

If you're unsure about the colour, you could always just test some different stuff out on photoshop till you find something you like.

Here are the custom colours in a sprite sheet. I have both the barrel types (DKC1 and 2&3).

Oh, CatLover, you said you wanted to see the colours that I came up with (they're pretty much the same as yours ). Here they are:

I think the size is fine. The only thing I would suggest is maybe exaggerate the feet by making them bigger, but just by a little bit.

What? only five in two days? Shoulda done six!

Seriously though, awesome job. I can't believe how quickly you've been doing everything. Amazing work!

Well, I see that you've animated the barrels. I saved them on my phone and transferred them to animate them... and I'm glad you can see that they look kind of off. Like I said before, those buddy barrels are tough to animate. They look wonky and are just odd with the way they move. I really think ju...

Qyz, that would be absolutely WONDERFUL if we had our own sprite sheet collections. I can't stress that enough!!!

I think sweat bands or a scarf would look good. A scarf is probably more feminine looking than sweat bands, though. I also don't know if I agree, Mattrizzle. Dixie's second syllable does not start with x, it starts with I. You say dix-e when you say it, not di-xe. Same with diddy and cranky. Did-e, ...

I may have to just make the center sprite for Squitter. There's so little to work with for these guys...

Alright... Squitter turning is now done...Next up is Rattly. squitter-turning.gif I know that these turning animations aren't perfect. It's really tough. I've been using other renders to complete the animations (that includes using Super Smash Bros trophies... that's what the "middle" fram...

Well, I'm not sure If I'll be able to do anything with that or not... I can try, but I can't promise anything. I've tried editing those barrels before and it's tough because of the way they move. My suggestion would be, if I can't put those letters on, to change just the colours, make blue for Kiddy...

Done.



Also, Expresso turning. I'll see if I can make it any smoother.

I've made an animation of Winky turning. I'm hoping to do the same thing for Expresso, Rattly, and Squitter. I made this by taking the renders Rare had, making them into sprites, and slightly editing one of them. winky-turning.gif I think that I might darken some parts... but I might leave it alone.

Spaceman2028 , it looks like the last parenthesis is not in the URL box thingy, so the link isn't working if you click on it. If you select and copy-paste it, it works. I think some yellows and/or oranges would look nice added in. I do think, like CatLoverMolly said, I like the way that the colours...

That's so much fun! I love the clickability!!!

I'm glad I could help. I would have felt really bad if you had to redo your whole model!

I used all of the sprites from tsr. I guess they were missing frames. Either way, it doesn't matter. Diddys unused animation has five frames in it. The first frame will probably only be used anyway. I like having them move out from his body. I think it looks a little bit better than being stiff. *ED...

Sorry for the double post, but since this is important, I feel like I need to. I did the first death animation of Kersplash. I'll be doing just the helmet one next. That shouldn't take long. I have this one slowed down a bit, obviously in game would be faster. I did five sprites, since the second ga...

I did an animation for Kiddy on Rattly.

Cheetahs are the only cats without retractable claws. They're always out for traction. What if she had a scarf? Or maybe sweat bands on her wrists and/or head? Maybe sweat bands are the best idea, since she's a runner. As far as appearance goes, what you could do is maybe have it look like a king ch...

I might be able to help you. Can you upload an image of the sprites you have for the animations (and any extra sprites you have lying around of the character, meaning I might have to use the first image of the turning helmet and other stuff, if you have it)? From that, I may be able to make a death ...

Very nice looking! I wanted the cheetah to be a female, so that's why I included that thing on the forehead. I thought it could just be a diamond shaped spot and not an actual gem.

What we know so far is that she should walk, dash/run, jump, and have a hurt animation.

So, has anybody come up with their halloween costumes, yet? I'm having a hell of a time trying to come up with an idea. I want to get started somewhat early so I can put it all together, but I'm getting no place fast... The only thing I've come up with at all that I like is to go as The Tramp (Charl...

VideoViking wrote:Phyre, are rattlesnakes capable of digging through dirt?

To my knowledge, no snake is capable of digging; they steal borrows from other animals... unless you're asking me something else, in which case, pm me.

Chibisai, I have a black kitty, too! :D I can never get a good picture of my cat, though. She moves around too much when you get out the camera, even though she's perfectly still before you get it out! I think most pets tend to do that... my dog does that, too. Yeah, yeah, I know this picture has me...

Okay, here is the whole animation completed.

Mattrizzle, how about this?





(^Same DK sprite, by the way)
I can make a couple more frames for him to look a little different as Rattly jumps, to match the number of unused Diddy sprites, if you'd like.

Well, I wouldn't necessarily say that jumping frames are missing. Diddy only has one used Rattly sprite. For Dixie, all that moves is her hair. Maybe I'll do kind of a mix between what you have and the rope sprite. I like the legs of the rope sprites, so maybe just add the arms from Expresso's sprit...

I think I'll stick with it either having to be planted, being squished after so many jumps, or both. There are tires that are half buried in the game, and I don't want it to be like that. There would be no real point to having them if they were identical as far as usage goes... Then again, maybe the...

To be perfectly honest, Mattrizzle, I think that looks a little weird, mostly because he isn't sitting down on Rattly's first... nub... thing... Maybe if you bring him down or modify it more it would look a little bit better. I found (a while back) that DK's rope sprite fits on Rattly perfectly. You...

I wanted to make a level called Fungi Forest, in... honor?... of the DK64 level. I was thinking about it and how to do it and there's something that's bothering me. If I have bouncy mushrooms, how do they differ from a tire? I'm not going to disclose my current ideas on what fungi forest will look l...

These sound great! I can't wait to hear more

Awesome job with everything, Qyz! DK would be jealous of your banana hoard!

I LOVE it!!! That's too funny! Kersplash is Kersquished.

You could use him in areas that flood, like in dkc2's ship hold levels. That way, he wouldn't need a special land helmet. To me, he looks top heavy, so if a Kong were to jump on him, I would think he would lose his balance and fall, unable to get back up. Then he could be similar to klick klack wher...

I'll take a screenshot later and show you what I mean. I'm not seeing b or y as an option.

*EDIT* never mind, I found it. Sorry about that. Still no sound, though... maybe I'll try it on windows xp instead of 8?

Wowzah! Very nice job! I think he looks perfect!

I'm having some problems with this.... first, there is no sound for me. I don't know why or how to fix that. Second, I don't know what controls are the y and b buttons. I don't see any options for those at all. I don't know what controls they should be. If you don't understand, I can take a screensh...

Would you mind showing us what happened if at all possible? I'm curious to see what you did and what could be done to fix it.

Even if you end up unable to animate it, you might just be able to make keyframes of it walking and end up putting it together in photoshop as a complete animation.

Rux Ton, I showed Hiperkalango your music and he liked it. He would love for you to make more music for the project if you would like to!