#livecomposite

[richmcpeek]

Heat Lightning #lightning #heatlightning #landscape #night #storm #olympus #olympusphotography #livecomposite https://www.instagram.com/p/CC9sPHFDelj/?igshid=1et7ot1g5mhaa

[rie-k-photo]

Rio by Oleg Kr https://flic.kr/p/2gmw811

[hehashivemind]

Behind the Scenes - Hallie's sketches, Photoshop layers, and RenPy's LiveComposite

So generally speaking, this has been my first foray into making a game at all, but most of all a visual novel. I could have used static character sprites, but instead I chose to use a template system using RenPy’s LiveComposite feature.

That means making a bunch of character expression sprites that I exported separately from the plain base sprite.

In the coding, you wind up with something like this:

# HALLIE sprites # character sprites and animations! image hallie flirt = "images/hallie/hallie_flirt.png" image hallie engaged = "images/hallie/hallie_engaged.png" # lean expressions image hallie lean away = LiveComposite( (631, 942), (0, 0), "images/hallie/hallie_base2.png", (0, 0), "images/hallie/hallie_leanaway.png") image hallie lean towards = LiveComposite( (631, 942), (0, 0), "images/hallie/hallie_base2.png", (0, 0), "images/hallie/hallie_leantowards.png") # base expressions image hallie curious = LiveComposite( (631, 942), (0, 0), "images/hallie/hallie_base.png", (0, 0), "images/hallie/hallie_curious.png") image hallie smile = LiveComposite( (631, 942), (0, 0), "images/hallie/hallie_base.png", (0, 0), "images/hallie/hallie_smile.png")

Hallie wound up with 16 different sprite configurations, and she was the first finalized sprite that I worked on for the game as the focal point to build everything else around.

I’m hoping that for a future update I can give her a different outfit on her base sprite, and hopefully it’ll be a fairly simple affair considering how I structured the PSD layers.

Anyways that’s a peek behind the curtain on Hallie’s character sprites and the work that went into her! Let me know if this is interesting to you, and I might make more posts.

If you're interested in the game I made, please be sure to check it out! Its a visual novel that I made as part of the 2017 Yuri Game Jam over on itch.io!

You can download mine either on itch.io or gamejolt.com: https://elliskim.itch.io/before-they-leave https://gamejolt.com/games/beforetheyleave/294913

[addblue13-blog]

#Olympuscamera #LiveComposite #em1markii #1240f28pro #forthofjuly https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGhAvusdQH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hekomam55]

コンデジ📷の手持ちだとこれが限界💦 #olympus #tg5 #livecomposite #longexposures #nightview #vietnam #hochominh (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmy0_c_JYED/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[addblue13-blog]

#wisconsin #waterfall #em1markii #livecomposite #1240f28pro #olympuscamera (at Smalley Falls) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch0zds_MmGO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[addblue13-blog]

#waterfall #em1markii #olympuscamera #livecomposite #1240f28pro (at Smalley Falls) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chr5EE_uorK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[addblue13-blog]

#smalleyfalls #waterfall #wisconsin #olympuscamera #livecomposite #em1markii #1240f28pro (at Smalley Falls) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgcOMeRuDVf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=