Ok, this thread will help serve two purposes. The first is a discussion area on the use of any "WBR Official" textures. It has been proposed by TheCape and some others that certain blue characters ought to have proper recolors for their nonblue costumes for use in teams matches. I'm in support of this much at least, but while we're at it, are there any of you who would like to see any other textures we could implement as part of our Brawl+ package?
The second part of the thread will concern the portraits used on the Character Select Screen. There was some scattered discussion last night about changing character portraits like Zelda, Sheik, and the Pokemon to their individual counterparts, to make the distinction simpler and also give the CSS some added flair and a more finished appearance. I like the idea, but there are but there are a couple issues I think we should discuss, namely how we should go about doing this.
First, Zelda/Sheik should be pretty simple to separate using the existing images, except for Zelda's missing arm. Adding the arm back in and doing appropriate recolors is about all that that would take. PT is going to be a bit more difficult in that regard. We have the image that was on the dojo, which is where the current portrait was taken from, but all the character images will have to be recolored to match the ones we take out.
I have thought of an alternative solution, which partly stems from the potential use of team color textures. That solution is, we make our own portraits for all the colors of the entire cast and insert them ourselves. The advantage I see with this method is that it will homogenize the look of all the portraits, so the PT ones we would have done wouldn't look out of place compared to all the rest, and it would let us incorporate any of the textures we decide to implement as part of our official package. The advantage of the other one is, obviously, there's less fairly tedious snapshot work to be done.
I'm not sold on either method yet at this point, and I wanted to see what you all thought of the proposition. So, discuss!
The second part of the thread will concern the portraits used on the Character Select Screen. There was some scattered discussion last night about changing character portraits like Zelda, Sheik, and the Pokemon to their individual counterparts, to make the distinction simpler and also give the CSS some added flair and a more finished appearance. I like the idea, but there are but there are a couple issues I think we should discuss, namely how we should go about doing this.
First, Zelda/Sheik should be pretty simple to separate using the existing images, except for Zelda's missing arm. Adding the arm back in and doing appropriate recolors is about all that that would take. PT is going to be a bit more difficult in that regard. We have the image that was on the dojo, which is where the current portrait was taken from, but all the character images will have to be recolored to match the ones we take out.
I have thought of an alternative solution, which partly stems from the potential use of team color textures. That solution is, we make our own portraits for all the colors of the entire cast and insert them ourselves. The advantage I see with this method is that it will homogenize the look of all the portraits, so the PT ones we would have done wouldn't look out of place compared to all the rest, and it would let us incorporate any of the textures we decide to implement as part of our official package. The advantage of the other one is, obviously, there's less fairly tedious snapshot work to be done.
I'm not sold on either method yet at this point, and I wanted to see what you all thought of the proposition. So, discuss!
