Outdated Ponybound v0.06

Fantastic! I know you've said more hair and eye options will be coming, is there any chance we'll see more coat colors as well? Any sort of green/lime would be amazing. Thank you for all of your work either way!

 

would like to see a very dark grey color as well

also i noticed that the mouth, whenever you eat, appears just underneath the ponies ear
and while im at finding hard to see things, id also like to mention that it looks like the engine effects needs to be shifted one pixel up

anyway I'm loving ya for adding pegasi, my favorite pony race. The custom flight tech, will it work similarly to how flying works in terraria but instead of a set flight time, will it drain energy?

 

If you could post a picture with the exact colors you want, that would help.

I've never played Terraria. The flight tech will probably work the same as bubble boost/butterfly boost, just without the animations, we'll see, I may be able to do something more suitable.

 

I think this is the closest, its very dark, almost black but not black http://i.imgur.com/s1f9Xeu.png
would it be possible to also request the mane and tails of both these ponies as well as their base coat colors?
http://i.imgur.com/PMgHupn.png
http://i.imgur.com/ckTDGXL.png

the flight in terraria, is basically hold down jump and the character flies upwards with freedom of movement to either side, i think movement speed was also increased

 

Hopefully this continues to be worked on. When I saw the Anthro pony mod, I thought it was nice, but not something I'd use.

This on the other hand is great, and pretty much exactly what I'd like to use. I don't even mind if cloths never work properly on them, as long as there are plenty of color, hair, and cutie mark options.

Edit: Yeah, more mane styles would be great. Currently only 10, whereas most races have close to 50. Since we don't actually have gear, having more manes would be great.

Edit 2: Actually, not really any cutie marks either. Would be nice to have the option of no cutie mark as well. (oh, it's actually the pants, nevermind)

Edit 3: This might not be anything that can be fixed at the moment, but there are pretty huge FPS issues with this mod as well. The game in general isn't optimized, but instead of fps dropping around specific points like dungeons, it's constantly lower at all times and severely so on the ship.

 

Cosmetic options will continue to be added, yes. I can only sprite so fast by myself. As to the optimization, I don't know why fps drops generally, but the ship has more hidden lights than usual to avoid being black. There's not a lot I can do about it, it's just Starbound being clunky.

 

Im going to make you a spawner extension soon. I trying to suport pony in all form here.


Ponex is currently the only custom species with spawners.

if i cant ill make a tutorial for it. (i should lots of race mods need to know how eventually)

 

Regarding what I said about the hind legs: it's not a big deal, but they currently bend the same way as the front legs, at least when jumping. Technically, the hind knees should be reversed so that they bend the opposite direction of the front legs. Sort of like angle brackets ( < > ).

 

Silvernis, the comment is removed already, just edit your post and it's gone forever.

 

This is for the reviewer who mentioned the issue about the jump animation which the modder didn't understand, I did a little sketch to illustrate the problem:



Basically, the pony currently flops very slowly rather than actually jump. I don't know the limitations, but having some indication that the character hit an apex in the jump and for their weight to then be falling would be nice. Plus, the initial thrust is extremely slow. (the in-game ponies final jump frame is what should be close to it's initial thrust.)

 

I dealt with it, just report the post instead of replying to them @Silvernis. Thanks Ryowyn.

 

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...I assume the pony haters have found their way over here. or was it something else completely? i feel i missed all the action.

also this is really good animation planing.

I would love if you posted more stuff like this during this mods development.

 

Thank you. The jump animation is the way it is now because I was making it for pegasus flight. Starbound simply locks in the jump animation for flying, so if you are flying for long periods you will spend most of your time in the final jump pose, which would look rather stupid for flight. That was, however, before I came upon adding unicorns and pegasi as seperate races, so I can redo the animation for those two races.

Those are quite nice sketches, by the way. Ever do sprite art?

 

heliostorm updated Ponybound with a new update entry:

Hair and Animation Update

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Ah, I see. Yeah, I didn't know how things are stored in Starbound and such. Nice to see the jump change in so quickly.

As for Pixel art, no I sadly haven't done any of it. I mean, I guess a tiny amount back in my RPG maker 2000 days, but not really much of anything; I just used it's assets. Primarily trying to get my art moving into the direction of conceptual design stuff.

 

I am just wondering, where are the files for the different characterization options? (Cutie mark, manes, etc) I am just wondering because I want to know if I can insert my OC. Thanks.

 

Manes are in humanoid/<race>/hair.
Cutie marks are in items.
Colors are defined in the .species files.

I am willing to take requests provided they are not too close to an existing asset.

Hmm, well, if you ever want to try, I could always use the help. I had never done any sprite art until I started this mod a few days ago, so I'd say it's not that hard to get into, and I'm not an artist at all.

 

I have no idea if this is even possible, but if it is I have an idea for a workaround for the way the ponies sleep weird. If if's possible to make an animation overwrite the games animation, you could tell the game to use the crouch animation for sleeping. Just add them closing their eyes to the animation and it would work out nicely

 

Anyone wanna tell me how to download this, or direct me to somewhere with steps how to download this? I tried and failed several times.

 

Y U no have rainbow mane?