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I gave it a shot , first is a wizerdy like hair and the second one is a more 70sh like flair with a little punk look, the third one...ran out of ideas .

Ah ehm, the second one looks like a poop

Elven Programmer wrote:Ah ehm, the second one looks like a poop

And what if it is the poop hair cut .

Golgo can you check your PMs?

Heheh, poop...

Well anyway I did different colors for the hairs...


^White hair = edit...
I made a platinum one too...

I think they are all really great

I like the one with the tail.
I like the white one.
But maybe I'd like to have the color a little more white.

Well maybe there can be platinum and white?
I'll add it now...

Ok.. look back at the last post I added the white at bottom.

Yeah I love it, and all the other colors as well but hey my player will have white hairs

Will these be in the new version?

Not in 0.0.13 I think, but in 0.0.14 for sure

Alright, cool.

Hoping this doesn't cause problems for you, I just noticed two things about these. First, since you're using png, go ahead and use a fully transparent background; the hair and faces are going to be layered on top of the preexisting character sprite, so (assuming I'm thinking about how this all gets coded correctly) a transparent background just makes things nice and easy. Second, take a look at the way I anti-aliased the character sprite outlines and try applying that. The graphics look nice, but they've got a little bit of the jagged-pixely look to them, which kind of works against the idea of hair being soft and/or flowing. My easy rule for anti-aliasing: each bit of jaggedness gets a pixel of 50% transparency to smooth it out. If it still looks a bit jagged, add a pixel of 33% transparency. That takes care of pretty much all problems, on this scale.

This topic also raises another issue, that I've discussed with a couple people in the past: hair animations. Certainly, when the character is doing intense motions (for example, swinging their sword) their hair is going to move. To add a further touch of realism, though, it would be awesome if the hair on a character, when appropriate (buzz-cuts do not apply here), bobbed a bit as they walk. This isn't something that would need to be attended to right away, but it would be really nice to see in future versions.

could you post the hair as a png with transparency?
I would like to try it with the new charakter sprites (look into the other thread )

I can only say that we will have fo course animated hairs in the future, but first let's have hairs at least