Pokémon Gen. 4 Trainer Sprite

Note:
This asset requires the program Top Down Sprite Maker (version 1.2.0 or later).

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This asset pack is a sprite style for Top Down Sprite Maker (TDSM) that lets users easily customize trainer overworld sprites in the style of the fourth generation of Pokémon games: Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver!

Key features for Pokémon game dev

The sprite style includes two settings specifically intended to assist ROM hackers:

• Quantize to GBA colors: Choose whether to snap all of the sprite colors to the nearest color supported by the Game Boy Advance's 15-bit color model
• Warn if sprite sheet contains more than 15 colors: When enabled, the program prompts the user to replace certain colors present in the sprite sheet with similar colors that occur if the sprite sheet contains more than 15 non-transparent colors. This is based on a limitation of the Game Boy Advance.

Supported animations

These are the animations currently supported by the sprite style:

Users can configure which animations and directions to include when exporting a sprite sheet, and in which order. More information about the granular control that TDSM provides can be found on the program's store page.

What is a "sprite style"?

Unlike conventional pixel art character customization programs that are built around a specific sprite style (art style, directions, supported animations, etc.), TDSM supports multiple sprite styles, which can be uploaded to the program as ZIP files.

Usage

Simply upload the downloaded ZIP file to Top Down Sprite Maker by pressing the (+) icon on the top-right of the Customization screen to parse and load the sprite style into the program.

Editing and extending the sprite style

The sprite style can be easily modified to add or change clothing options, hairstyles, etc. Such simple changes will not require any programming or changes to be made to the manifest.tds file inside the ZIP.

If you wish to add or change customization elements, it is recommended that you use the art program Stipple Effect. This is because the ZIP file contains the Stipple Effect workspace files, automation scripts, and color palettes needed to make efficient, iterative changes to various layers.

Further instructions can be found in the README file in the ZIP.

For a more comprehensive guide on making/editing sprite styles for Top Down Sprite Maker, please read the tutorials on GitHub.

Roadmap

This is a rough outline of what you can expect from future updates to this asset:

• More animations
  • Cycle
  • Bike idle
  • Fishing
  • Use Pokéball
• More clothing options
• Facial hair layer