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[Moosh]

Any news on the shielded Link tiles? It would be a fairly small tile edit compared to what you guys have been adding recently and make the tileset much more usable, right?

[ShadowTiger]

Since it hasn't been mentioned here yet, (I just did a topic-search for "boots" ... ) there is a post that addresses a minor concern. Is there any particular reason why the player currently starts with the boots by default within the tileset.

[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

Since it hasn't been mentioned here yet, (I just did a topic-search for "boots" ... ) there is a post that addresses a minor concern. Is there any particular reason why the player currently starts with the boots by default within the tileset.

Probably not. I'm assuming it's just a mistake. Easily corrected. Thanks!

Any news on the shielded Link tiles? It would be a fairly small tile edit compared to what you guys have been adding recently and make the tileset much more usable, right?

I'll toy around with something and see what I can come up with.

[kurt91]

Oh, that issue regarding the Boots was me. It wasn't a complaint, it just got in the way of troubleshooting an FFC that I was working on. (A moving spiked log that mysteriously wasn't dealing damage to Link.) I've never dealt with FFCs in this manner before, having only used them to activate scripts, and so the Boots caused a bit of a problem. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. I just turned the Boots back off, and everything was fine.

[Linkus]

I'll see about shielded sprites. One set for idle shield, one for passive shield, and one set for active shield. Of course, if we don't have one yet, I'll see about a "generic" shield sprite.

[Jared]

I feel the locked doors should be fixed. Without being fixed after downloaded, they're unusable pretty much. This is pretty important in my eyes.

[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

If Linkus is focusing on the shield sprites, I can rest easy. I had a go at it last night, and my results were... not visually pleasing. I'm sure Linkus will churn out something amazing though.

 

Anyways, I took Shane's suggestion with the texture on the bridge, and now we have one more or less complete variant. It still lacks tiles for allowing a river to flow through below, but I'll get to that eventually. Appreciate the ideas guys, thanks! Feel free to speak up if you've got any more.

[Shane]

Would be amazing and fitting for a Castle Town area. Wonderful work!

[Supindahood]

I've looked through the files recently, and discovered a lot of new stuff

 

What I found:

• Lots of tiles, new statues, bridge
• New set of mountains (as Linkus mentioned)
• New lava (animated!)
• Link with shields
• New alternative item sprites
• NPCs and Guys (thanks to Migokalle)
• New palettes

I will include this in the next release of Firebird. (I will work on the next release once my computer has been repaired, which can take a few days.)

[bigjoe]

This is a little old, but here are some darknuts I made, for those who are hungry for some Darknut action in Firebird.

 

 

here is a picture of them in action

 

[Linkus]

The shield sprites are done... and I'm mentally drained.

[Linkus]

Zol 2 graphics are done, as well as fitting fire trails. You're gonna love them and their animations - You'd think that it'd be impossible to put such smooth and lively animation in four frames, but I did it. Somehow.

 

Only thing is that if you use the standard Zol 2 enemy the top of the sprite gets lopped off - It's not exactly 16x16. It's purely cosmetic, but also fixable though a script.

 

EDIT: Here's a preview.

 

[kurt91]

That looks really pretty. So, I can assume that all of the Game Boy sprites are placeholders until you finish drawing new ones?

 

Anyways, on to the point of my post. I was testing out a dungeon I've been making with this tileset, and noticed that my Goriyas don't throw Boomerangs like they're supposed to. They throw vertical-flipping Fire Arrows. Either some sort of sprite got mixed up and I don't know how to change it myself, or some weird rule or something is set that I don't know how to fix. I do have a script that changes weapon graphics on a per-screen basis, but I only used it once on a single screen to make the boss throw more fitting weapons than Fireballs without screwing up every other enemy that does that. I've used the script before, so I know it's not a side-effect from that.

[Demonlink]

That looks really pretty. So, I can assume that all of the Game Boy sprites are placeholders until you finish drawing new ones?
 
Anyways, on to the point of my post. I was testing out a dungeon I've been making with this tileset, and noticed that my Goriyas don't throw Boomerangs like they're supposed to. They throw vertical-flipping Fire Arrows. Either some sort of sprite got mixed up and I don't know how to change it myself, or some weird rule or something is set that I don't know how to fix. I do have a script that changes weapon graphics on a per-screen basis, but I only used it once on a single screen to make the boss throw more fitting weapons than Fireballs without screwing up every other enemy that does that. I've used the script before, so I know it's not a side-effect from that.

Go to Quest -> Sprites -> Weapons. Edit the weapon sprite in Boomerangs (the one that isn't functioning for you) if I'm not mistaken and turn it into the sprite of your choice, problem solved

[kurt91]

Here's the thing. That's the first thing I tried. It didn't work and I have no idea why. All the Boomerang sprites appear to be correct in the editor, but in-game they're screwed up.