Nuvie: Iolo Plays Music Now (Also: Custom Companion Sprites)
Iolo plays a tune
A recent update to the Nuvie changelog reveals that still yet more graphics from HiPhish have been added to the source and builds of the engine:
Add Iolo’s musician playing frames by HiPhish
As well, I should make a correction regarding the last piece of Nuvie-related news that I posted. It wasn’t companion paperdolls that were added to Nuvie recently, as HiPhish himself pointed out. What was actually added were custom graphics for the companions themselves. No longer are Iolo and Gwenno just generic-looking bards! No longer is Sentri just one more generic knight!
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- Custom sprites for Iolo, Dupre, and Shamino
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- And now Jaana
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- Katrina joins up
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- And here’s Gwenno
This update to Nuvie corrects the one lingering issue with Iolo that HiPhish’s companion sprites previously had not addressed: the “lute playing” animations of the bard characters. Previously, Iolo defaulted to the original “bard playing a lute” animation; with the addition of the frames mentioned in the changelog above, he now has his own animation frames that preserve his new look.
Presumably, we’ll see similar frames for Gwenno and Leodon in the near future.
Yes, I will add Gwenno and Leodon as well, but Iolo was the top priority because he’s a permanent party member and plays the lute every time when resting. There should also be separate Avatar sprites for each of the portraits the player can choose, just like there are individual paper dolls, but I’m not sure if I will do those. The main reason I started this mod was to make the party members stand out so I could tell who was who (especially Iolo and Gwenno), but the Avatar already looks unique.
I plan to upload the project file of my work in Gimp format when I’m done so someone who wants to continue can work from there. Of course just like with the dolls, I welcome any opinion on my work.
In my opinion your work here is flawless. Sorry I can’t offer more constructive critique. :p
Honestly, it looks beautiful.
Hi hiphish congratulation for your job
I wanted to know if the U6 online sprites can be ported to nuvie.?