I wanna try and make at least one mod for Starbound. I decided that it should be a pirate themed Piranha species called Charates (Charate in singular). I have some of the lore down in my mind, but I need to do some of the technical work first before I start with that. CURRENTLY WORKING ON - Colors - Emotes
Patience, my friend! These things, they take time. I've seen it actually, though I was under the impression that it's a non-player race. I might be mistaken though. As for the sprites themselves, I am having some trouble because I am not doing well with the head. I can't make a convincing looking shark mouth without having it looking like a checker game, and making it a 100% white mouth looks dumb to me. And of course, I can't make it bigger than it is, so that one is out of the question too. OTOH I experimented with a piranha looking mouth, and... I made a somewhat convincing one. Much better than the shark mouth I tried. I am beginning to wonder if I should go for a Piranha species instead? It wouldn't screw up most of the ideas I had in mind for the species, it works with my current sprites and might actually fit the pirate theme better. I do need a new name though, but that won't take a lot of time. Edit: Yeah, I think I will make them Piranhas.
Okay, here's what I got so far. A very rough draft of a male Charate. The skin and the underbite + torso combo will be recolorable when I get that done. No female charate yet. I don't even have proper emotes for it yet, so that's another thing to do. There will be fins as hair, but that will be done later. Edit: Actually, I think I will be improving the draft before I do that. I think it will help in the future.
Looks kinda like garchomp, haha. This is a super cool idea. As for the sprite, I think you should add one, maybe two shades of color. The Starbound sprites tend to use 3/4 shades per color. It'll fit in with the others a bit better.
Apologies for the lack of updates. I was playing a lot of Dota 2 because they just added ranked matchmaking. I should be able to focus more on these guys now. Thanks for the replies, they're encouraging! Looking at the colors, it does look like a smaller garchomp! Heh, I was just looking at piranha pictures on google and trying to imitate the colors closely. Probably why it ended up looking like chomp. Also, about the colors, I added more shades to the male sprites (I figured out that they needed these colors. Good thing they were just rough drafts), and I will begin on the arms. And then I will make the female sprites once I get hat over with.
Wouldn't that make it a rough... SKIN draft? Anyway I love the new Piranha idea, might overlap with Hyotls though. At least, you can use their fin assets.
Considering how much I struggle to make a good looking fin, I might have to use their fin assets until I get better at making fins. Also aren't Hylotls more amphibian than fish?
They still need some slight improvements, but other than that, I think they're alright now. It's time to work on the emotes and colors. The emotes has proven to be tricky to get right for me, so I will start with the colors.
They should be almost finished once I am done with the emotes. I am probably going to tweak the colors further. Since I am posting this, I might aswell ask. Could somebody give me tips for making the species selection icons? I'd really appreciate it.
OMG I love this idea! I really hope you make this into a downloadable mod. This looks to be my #1 mod! Will there be more teeth options? If not that's ok.
I understand it's an old idea, however this is one of the better-looking ones on here so I think it deserves a little more praisssse. The face design is just right, and I totally agree that different teeth, along with different fins (and maybe different patterns for the body stripes), would make a great customizing addition. The color splits look fine, I would stop the lower color before it reaches the back of the head/neck though, that way the head doesnt look so much like a pokeball.
