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Needs some polishing (at least helmet) and anti-aliasing = WIP
Feedback is appreciated.

We could need some soldiers with different uniforms when we create a 2nd large city beside Tulimshar.

Can you do some more soldiers with the same uniform but different weapons or some with slightly different uniforms (officers, commanders, elite troops etc.)?

do a version:

• with sword & shield
  with sword only
  with poleaxe & shield(the one you already got)
  with poleaxe only

This a little small and not many details posue
increase the size and put more details

-Phoenix- wrote:This a little small and not many details posue
increase the size and put more details

Huh? What are you talking about? The size is exactly the same as the other character sprites.

It's very good, but the contrast on the colors is a bit too high and looks a little out of place when compared to the warlord and platemail armors. Also, try going for a less cyan blue, and try mixing a little bit of white or gray into it.

I think the cyan grey is just right.

Crush wrote:I think the cyan grey is just right.

It gives it the look of really shiny metal, which looks cyan-ish outdoors from reflecting the sky!

I opened this up in an editor to see how easy it would be to derive the armor into a set that could be used for the NPC assembly system or animations [I was going to send you a PM and see if that was helpful first, so you wouldn't think I was trying to step on your toes! I'm a big fan of this NPC and your work after all!]... while I was zoomed in, I noticed that the top of the helmet wasn't even on both sides (slightly flatter on the right side), though you can't tell when viewing it at 100%.

It gives it the look of really shiny metal, which looks cyan-ish outdoors from reflecting the sky!

Yes, I couldn't have explained it better. This NPC is meant to be outdoors and in my opinion, the weather in the game world is very very sunny mainly because the colours are bright. If you have any use for an indoor NPC guard, I think I can quite easily change the colours more greyish with select by colour/fill with foreground colour combo.

I opened this up in an editor to see how easy it would be to derive the armor into a set that could be used for the NPC assembly system or animations [I was going to send you a PM and see if that was helpful first, so you wouldn't think I was trying to step on your toes! I'm a big fan of this NPC and your work after all!]... while I was zoomed in, I noticed that the top of the helmet wasn't even on both sides (slightly flatter on the right side), though you can't tell when viewing it at 100%.

Do what you want to do, even though I don't understand what you do you mean . This game is a collaboration project after all.
I'll look at the helmet

EDIT: Image. AA was messed up because of colour change and there was some stray alpha

Hi, i tried another one model of guard. It's my first work, just a sketch, and i will be pleased if you give me any echo. btw: this is just first version, i planning 3 types of guards and evidently more detailed.

P.S.: I'm not sure about correct size of game sprites, please tell my some info about that.

You should use the player sprites as a template when creating NPC sprites. You can find the spritesets here:
http://gitorious.org/projects/tmwdata/r ... e_base.png
http://gitorious.org/projects/tmwdata/r ... e_base.png

Also note this thread for instructions how to obtain all resource files of TMW: http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... =13&t=2617

The normal work flow when creating NPC sprites is:
1. taking a frame from the player spritesets
2. Modify pose and stature to fit the NPC type you want to create
3. Pixel clothes and hair in a new layer above it.

cube wrote:Hi, i tried another one model of guard. It's my first work, just a sketch, and i will be pleased if you give me any echo. btw: this is just first version, i planning 3 types of guards and evidently more detailed.

P.S.: I'm not sure about correct size of game sprites, please tell my some info about that.

Please use the player sprite as a base.

Also keep in mind that all sprites require a transparency layer in the background.