Hey guys, Mc Fow1er here and this is actually my very first mod that I'm going to try make but I will need help with making my race because it will be rather... different to most races and I also don't really know how to make color differentiations on body parts and there will be a lot of them about... 5 or 6 different colors on this race I will try to make a PNG file of what they will more or less look like but no guarantees that this will look good at first (I'm terrible at art work and making a random race outta my head) but I shall try my best at making what they look like and I would also like you guys to help me with this I will be using a few mods to help me make some of the body parts but that will only be 1 or 2 mods for the hands (from the hand up to about half way to your elbow) and legs (they will be like a cats hind legs with the 2 knees and paws and what not) Now some of the art work I have found to work off is just a bit too odd for the public to view (due to certain rules on the site this imagery cannot be made public...) but if you are 15 years of age or older you can help me with the graphic design of the race but you have to agree not to post the original art work of which I based the general appearance on but if are willing to help out with some of the other stuff like the weapons clothing quests and items that would be very appreciated if you want to join in the development then add me on skype (mc_fow1er) to get more info and also so that I can trust you with this info (bare in mind that if you do post the original imagery I WILL report you for it because not only would it be against the rules to post this sort of stuff but you would also be going against my simple requests) although I know that this sort of art work is really wrong to use it seams to always be the best thing to get detail from due to the fact of its a lot more easy to use. Now all I have done right now is the following: Made 2 different storie lines for the beginning of the racial play though Have 2 images of which i can work off of Thought of some item ideas (although I have no clue on how I'm going to do the style of what they look like) Stuff to do: I'm going to think up some codexes like old diary entrys and so forth Make a tech or 2 Make a jump booster item Stuff to be thought up to make and do
On the color thing, maybe you should take a close look at the vanilla assets? Both the PNG files in \humanoid\ as well as the bottom parts of the .species files, in \species\. You might notice something regarding colors. Or you could get a template and work from there. I happen to have one that has a lot of inline documentation. Regardless, you should get your basic character sprites up first, then worry about codices, techs, and shit like that.
There is a tutorial thread on how to properly unpack the vanilla assets in the Mod Releses & Help forum, two levels up. You can't miss it, it's right up the top of the thread list. I take it the conversation I stepped out of went nowhere?
for a starting mod idea, you sure chose a hard place to start, not that there is anything wrong with that, but if your also looking for a starting base/template i could probably say "Pete" from the Housepet's comic, mostly because its not the traditional griffin sort of look, but you can always make character creation changes that can change features such as the feet, hands, wings, tail, ect... but sure, if you don't mind i would like to try and help you out were i can, i don't know how much i would be able to help with as im currently exploring and working on weapons with my own mod, but its always nice to explore new area's and learn something new...
like i said, more then happy to help where i can, if there is anything i can possible help with, particularly sprites, just give me a shout and i'll see what i can do.
Hey there, if your looking for templates for size and movement of a quadrupedal race in starbound, might I suggest one of the two MLP racial mods as guidance. By making sprites generally the same size and shape armor/clothing of both races could be (mostly) interchangeable. However if you happen to be anti-MLP in all ways, there is an unrelated dragon mod which might serve the same purpose as well.
I kinda lost all interest in making it. Mainly as I'm gonna be making my own game with unreal engine 4 and I'm gonna make the race in that instead because really, 3D modelling from scratch is easier than being bound to certain pixel space, sorry.
