SNES Pixel Art

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This has to be possibly the lousiest update ever, but I got a palette done for the explosion.
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The main thing I wanted to ask was I know that transparent sprites on the SNES are sprite palettes 4-8, (edit: palettes are numbered 0-7, not 1-8) but do you know if all four have to be transparent, or if you can just pick one or two of the four to be transparent? I think a transparent explosion would be cool, but not if I only have four other palettes to use.
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I thought I remembered that when you enabled transparency on sprites, that half of them would be transparent, while the other half would stay normal. (Did I just respond to nobody?)
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I made a post then deleted it because I wasn't aware of the palette 4-7 difference described in this document.
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I know it's not SNES but probably one of the better NES explosions. Can't find an animated one and don't have time to make one.
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RushJet1 wrote:Image

I know it's not SNES but probably one of the better NES explosions. Can't find an animated one and don't have time to make one.
That's a very exciting looking explosion. Is the rest of it much the same way?
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The animation is not as cool as it looks, IIRC. It quickly animates to a full blast and kinda pauses in that frame, it's weird.
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The pictures gone... (never mind, the dumb web filter at my school didn't allow it to show...) Also, If anyone was wondering, the game with the explosion was Metal Storm, which was an NES game published by Irem. (My second favorite videogame company, behind Rareware.)
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Well, I was occupied for a while and I have some more free time right now, so I think I'll post this. It's the character from earlier in a slightly different position with arms and a gun.

Edit: I fixed the pictures a bit and changed them because the arm was a bit ugly...

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I'm getting Amiga vibes from that haha.
Looks pretty good ~
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Thank you, I'm just so picky that I redid it a bit and I'm posting it now...
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The main reason I did this was to actually get the thing to fit into 16x16 tiles a bit better (because I like 16x16 and 32x32 tiles), but I also redid it a bit to make it look better. One problem with the other one was that the butt of the gun stuck out to make the arm look fat, so I just got rid of it. If I were to think of my artwork, I'd say of a scale from "cartoony" to real, It would look something like:

Metal Slug
Gunforce 2
mine
DKC
Mortal Kombat

It actually fits into 2 16x16's and 2 8x8's, even though I'm using 16x16's the walking animation will obviously have to have more sprites for the legs.
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Hey...seeing all these explosions got me thinking...what if you tried to create a radially-symmetric explosion? You would have to go for a very stylized look, but you could create a 64x64 explosion by only drawing the 32x32 parts of the explosion. Here's a really rough example of what I'm talking about...Ideally the final explosion would be seamless along the boundaries and use a lot more colors.

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(6 frames of 32x32 sprites)

Oh! Or you could go for a really stylized circle-style explosion like I did for my Dig Dug NES sheet:

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The whole thing only uses 8 minisprites, but it takes up a 64x64 space and creates no sprite flickering by itself. Frames 9-16 are 8 overlapping minisprites across at their widest points.
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Here is a gif screencap of an old demo. I was pretty happy with the little animation.

Getting into more intricate/usable stuff soon
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Not SNES, but Shienryu has some of my favorite pixelated explosions:

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Looks even better when animated and you've got lots of burning debris flying across the screen.
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I don't think this should come as a surprise...
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