I redesigned the magic meter so that it can look a little more glossy and not so flat. It was also the only subscreen item with a border, so I got rid of that and made it bigger. Here's what the look like:
Next, I couldn't get the Podobos to look good, nor could I find actual graphics for them. (They are the 4-fireball enemies running around in Lv 2,3, and 4 in the LttP dark world.) So I redesigned them from scratch:
I also added legs to the rats in order to give them some meaningful extra frames of animation. I think they look more 'mousey' and frantic:
Log dump:
::August 19, 2014::{
Rebuilt the magic meter again. I realized it was the only subscreen item with a border, so I had to remove the border and enlarge it. I also added a glassy-overlay effect so that it will look a little more interesting and not so flat.
Imported NPCs. I've grouped the roughly by their maximum use locations. Story NPCs first, then generics, Guards in HCT, brimmed hats in Casia, red hair in Gerudo, white hair in Oasika, and fairies for the Fairy Village.
Imported Animals and Items. Updated items in editor. Updated sprites in Misc editor; still have a lot to do there...
Started working on Misc effects. I renamed all the effects in the sprite list so that their names and purpose are a little more clear, and so that they are easier to edit. It's analogous to what I've done with the enemies, but less cryptic.
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::August 20, 2014::{
Made hammer sprites. They are pretty much perfect, since hammers are just simple shapes, all you really need is an eye for 3D geometry and some patience.
Made Hookshot sprites. I don't know if they're lined up right, because they seem finicky.
Why is it so hard to find zombie and deadrock sprites?
Uh... I started fixing up some of the missing enemies: Turtle and Podobos. But when I went to update their enemy listings, I couldn't find the Podobos, and I though maybe I had called it Spark or something. Then I couldn't find Spark either. Then I noticed that I couldn't find Anti-fairy. Or Aquamentus (Orange). It turns out that every enemy entry numbered above 255 was erased! Luckily I had a backup quest that I could export the enemies from -- something that I would only have known to do if I had read about this problem somewhere else a few days ago. So now I have to keep enemy backups on file just in case the enemies fail.
I couldn't get the Podobos to look good, so I invented a cool new variation. It is a glass ball with fire inside. Also, with fire outside. Different colors of fires on the inner and outer part though. There is also a fire 2 version.
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