Kobazco Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 (edited) Hello everybody! I've been working on a fire emblem hack for a little bit now and finally decided to post something about it. The hack is called project Juan at the moment, as i really don't know what else to call it. The story is about a thief called Takeshi and his amazing friend, Juan. They live by stealing and are generally jerks to the public. One day, the Empire (the main country/owner thingy of the continent) raids their town and Juan is taken captive. Takeshi must rescue his friend and rebel aganst the corrupt Empire in order to save the world!.... or something like that. Originally this was just a story I wrote for an English project and it just so happened I was really addicted to fire emblem at the time. Here is a picture of the latest version of prolouge, chapter 1 and chapter 2. Prolouge Ch.1 Ch.2 I am still looking for someone to help me out with more complicated events/scripting and potrait editing. Patch For da Prolouge http://www.mediafire.com/download/nqh33fcl1yukhgu/Fire+Emblem+project+juan.ups Edited February 26, 2014 by Kobazco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deranger Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Demonstrate more progress if you want people to help. Make a topic in spriting if you want critique on the map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kon Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 (edited) Are you willing to pay for anything? I can sprite, and fairly well, but being a poor college student makes it hard to do things for free. Otherwise, you might not be getting a whole lot of help in your hack, as most who are able most likely will not want to contribute anything to someone who doesn't have much to show. And I am serious about the whole paying for sprites thing, just so you know. Edited November 21, 2013 by Kon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendor Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 (edited) you could always just make your own sprites. You can check out the spriter's resource topic in the sprites subforum learn everything you need to know to make them recolors just sounds like palette editing which you can learn through the hacking resources subforum Edited November 21, 2013 by The Booty Wawriah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I like the layout of that map, good concept! However, the map itself is a bit bland. If you've never heard of terms like "tile-spam" and the like, I'd recommend looking at my buddy Primefusion's topic regarding how to make maps. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=1595900 Also part 2. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25963&page=2#entry1600898 Believe me, read these and you'll be an awesome mapper in no time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobazco Posted November 21, 2013 Author Share Posted November 21, 2013 I like the layout of that map, good concept! However, the map itself is a bit bland. If you've never heard of terms like "tile-spam" and the like, I'd recommend looking at my buddy Primefusion's topic regarding how to make maps. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=1595900 Also part 2. http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25963&page=2#entry1600898 Believe me, read these and you'll be an awesome mapper in no time. Thanks for the links, they look like they will help alot! I could never really figure out how to get mountains to look right in a map since the tilesets are a bit confusing at times and im sure the tutorials will help alot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Trust me, I'm a horrible mapper. It's only because primefusion made my map that I had a decent ragefest map at all xP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelman Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 So, how much chapters will this hack cover? Making a full scale fire emblem hack is pretty hard. But... uh... good luck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobazco Posted November 22, 2013 Author Share Posted November 22, 2013 (edited) I've found a lot of useful programs in hacking resources and I think I'm really going to work on this project starting tommorow. It will probaly take a month or more, but after I finish about 4-5 chapters ill get a patch and release it! Its thanks to the people who showed me tutorials that I'm gonna actually work on this, so thanks to all of you! Edited November 22, 2013 by Kobazco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kon Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Are you going to be doing anything about portraits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobazco Posted November 22, 2013 Author Share Posted November 22, 2013 Either gonna find a tutorial and send it to meh artsy japanese friend or do it my self Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendor Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 I can sprite, and fairly well, but being a poor college student makes it hard to do things for free.. What are your normal rates? I'm curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kon Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Varies depending on how much work I need to do. I don't have any exact values, but I'd rather take this into PMs to avoid clogging someone else's topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobazco Posted November 27, 2013 Author Share Posted November 27, 2013 UPDATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! I have done my best to improve upon my current map and here it is! Do you like it better or do you think its worse? TELL MEEE OR ELSE ILL KILL YOU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 1. Use an image host! 2. That's an improvement, but you've still got a way to go. Try making the roads look less. . .uh, blocky. If it looks like it came out of an old Zelda game, it's a bit too linear. You can ask the guys in the Sprites section for more help on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobazco Posted November 27, 2013 Author Share Posted November 27, 2013 1. Use an image host! 2. That's an improvement, but you've still got a way to go. Try making the roads look less. . .uh, blocky. If it looks like it came out of an old Zelda game, it's a bit too linear. You can ask the guys in the Sprites section for more help on this! Could you perhaps recomend an image host? And i see what you mean about the roads, im working on those now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Here's one: imgur Upload your picture(s) there, then paste the resulting links. Looks like Imageshack shuttered its anonymous upload service. If anyone else has any suggestions, feel free to post them~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobazco Posted November 27, 2013 Author Share Posted November 27, 2013 i have more update. Dont know if these photos will work if not click the link or copy paste or something. http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac64/kobe_robsahm/theifanimation_zps31f94052.png http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac64/kobe_robsahm/prolouge_zps713cd63c.png http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac64/kobe_robsahm/theifanimation_zpsceb3ef68.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 To get an image to show up, do it like this: [img=URL HERE]Using the first link you posted, here's what I get: The map is getting better! Next up is that road in the middle of town. Here's some GBA FE maps with lots of roads; notice how they're tiled. Chapter 21 Hector (FE7) Chapter 24B Hector (FE7) The Shopping Chapter (FE7) Chapter 5 (FE8) Chapter 9 Eir (FE8) Notice how the roads are straight, but don't look very straight? The edges are usually uneven, and if it's a common road, it's pretty wide (to the point where there's no grass). See if that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobazco Posted November 27, 2013 Author Share Posted November 27, 2013 (edited) OMG SPLICE! I DONT EVEN KNOW THE HEAD IS SHIZ I NEED HELPZ. I tried to do the img= thing, but it said im not allowed to use it. Edited November 27, 2013 by Kobazco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) That's 'cause the code box is messing with the formatting. [img ]Image URL here[/img] (get rid of the space in the first image tag)As for the splice. . .I believe the people in the spriting subforum will be able to assist you with that. Edited November 28, 2013 by eclipse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDRHAWK Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Aside from the fact that he looks like he has no chin, it looks aight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobazco Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 yay update on shiz. im very stupid and still cant get the image thing to work, so heres chapter 1 and 2. And for now instead of splicing and making my own potraits ect, im gonna do recolors... for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendor Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Don't use imgur. Use tinypic. Trust me. Those maps look like a good start. Without getting too specific because this should be for a sprite topic but...ok so your roads look way too straight. Try breaking them up and using curves. And it looks like you're spamming grass and trees. Try variations of grass and forests and just land in general like try adding mountains and rivers and stuff. You should really give Primefusion's mapping tutorial a read. Otherwise best of luck to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelman Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 (edited) Don't use imgur. Use tinypic. Trust me. Those maps look like a good start. Without getting too specific because this should be for a sprite topic but...ok so your roads look way too straight. Try breaking them up and using curves. And it looks like you're spamming grass and trees. Try variations of grass and forests and just land in general like try adding mountains and rivers and stuff. You should really give Primefusion's mapping tutorial a read. Otherwise best of luck to you! Bro, it doesn't matter. They're both good. Other than that, best of luck. It looks like you can hack, which is good. Edited December 4, 2013 by PixelmanFE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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