Character Creator (1.0 -Updated 15 Aug 2012) - It's multiplatform now!

**I-gor** · 09-11-2010, 03:32 PM

Suggestion: Make a horns selector for Troll characters. Might be a hassle with having to edit some of the hair parts but it'd be nice.

**diop** · 09-11-2010, 03:43 PM

Excellent.

**introvertedOptimist** · 09-12-2010, 10:00 AM

Agreed. I think my character is pure win :3

**Xegek** · 09-12-2010, 04:06 PM

I hate macs, "We're special and different, let's not run EXE files!"

**Didero** · 09-15-2010, 02:48 PM

I have not forgotten about this! I've just been busy with school, early classes and assignments. And Minecraft >_>

But I did finish a new version today, version 0.6 Beta! Download it here!
The most important addition is the ability to change the color of body parts. It's somewhat limited, but it does give a bit more freedom.
Click the color wheel button at the bottom to enable the color and alpha sliders, and toy around with it. It only works if you have a body part selected though.

I also added the ability to load and save to the clipboard. That means you can easily share characters you made.
For instance, copy the text in the following box(Select it, and either press control+c or right-click and select 'Copy'), and load up the Homestuck Character Creator. Then click the 'Load' icon, and select 'Load from Clipboard' (at the top):

Code:

[Bodyparts]
Bodies=Bodies\Body_Suit.png
Symbols=Off
Heads=Heads\Head_Kids.png
Mouths=Mouths\Mouth_John_Egbert.png
Hairdos=Hairdos\Hair_John_Egbert.png
Eyes=Eyes\Eyes_Dreambot.png
[Eyes]
Color=16776960

That's how easy it is! Feel free to post your characters here

Originally Posted by Polynomious1

http://www.mediafire.com/?h1cpw91l8bb0vp6

Kinda crappy, but has a few Bodies including Doc Scratch. Enjoy!

Thanks!
I added them to version 0.6 Beta, and added your name to the Credits.txt file.

Originally Posted by laptopPsyche

Thank You! This'll make it even easier!

You're welcome, and thank YOU!

Originally Posted by I-gor

Suggestion: Make a horns selector for Troll characters. Might be a hassle with having to edit some of the hair parts but it'd be nice.

That's a pretty good idea. Though ideally, you'd be able to change the distance between the left and right horn too, to have it work regardless of the size of the head. And that's rather difficult.
And it's hard to edit the horns out of the hair sprites, yeah. I know I can't do that while still having the hair look reasonably good.

Originally Posted by diop

Excellent.

Originally Posted by laptopPsyche

Agreed. I think my character is pure win :3

Thanks!
It's great to see other people use this program

Originally Posted by Xegek

I hate macs, "We're special and different, let's not run EXE files!"

Sorry!
I briefly looked into getting Game Maker games to run on a Mac. There is a separate Mac version of Game Maker, but that only runs on Macs, and I don't have one of those. The best solution would be to add an option to all versions of GM to select what kind of executable file to make, but no such luck.

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I found two bugs in 0.6. The alpha slider didn't work (which I really should've noticed when testing, sorry >_>), and the message that pops up when you press 'I' with a body part selected was a debug message, and is now changed back in a message with the filename the body part is currently using. Both bugs are fixed in 0.6.1. Download here!

**Put** · 09-16-2010, 02:38 PM

Some of these are just amazingly adorable.

**azureZoosmell** · 09-17-2010, 03:45 AM

Hey guys, I made a Pack of some stuff for the Creator, It includes:

Body for Ky Kiske
Body, Eyes, and Mouth for Robo-Ky
Hornless Karkat and Blond Hornless Karkat (Meant for the Kys)
Robo-John eyes.

Also Didero, I forgot to thank you for telling me what I did wrong!

**VoltaicPhilosopher** · 09-17-2010, 02:12 PM

This is really cool so far. It would be cool if I could adjust the amount of space between some of the eyes and change the colors of some of the outfits or individual parts of the outfits, but this is already pretty cool, I'll put a picture of the favorite avatar I made while I was messing with it.

For example, Ideally, I'd like to change the suit to white on black, be able to pick the symbol that was on the breast, and change the glasses to Black. I don't know if it would be possible to do that, or if any of that would be really hard to implement. Just thought it would be neat.

But like I said, I still think this is a cool little program, even for what it can already do.

**Didero** · 09-17-2010, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by orngjce223

An ungodly-old package of cut out eyes and mouths I made way back when. It could be adapted with very little effort. And no, I don't have the wherewithal to do it again with what's happened since.

I think I missed this post on the previous page. They're great, I'll try to add them to the next version. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Put

Some of these are just amazingly adorable.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by azureZoosmell

Hey guys, I made a Pack of some stuff for the Creator, It includes:

Body for Ky Kiske
Body, Eyes, and Mouth for Robo-Ky
Hornless Karkat and Blond Hornless Karkat (Meant for the Kys)
Robo-John eyes.

Also Didero, I forgot to thank you for telling me what I did wrong!

Looks good, thanks for the effort! Though I'm not sure I should add non-MSPA related bodyparts to the default selection. But then again, the more parts to choose from, the better!
And thank you for finding out PNGs have to be 32 bit for them to be usable by the HCC

Originally Posted by VoltaicPhilosopher

This is really cool so far. It would be cool if I could adjust the amount of space between some of the eyes and change the colors of some of the outfits or individual parts of the outfits, but this is already pretty cool, I'll put a picture of the favorite avatar I made while I was messing with it.

For example, Ideally, I'd like to change the suit to white on black, be able to pick the symbol that was on the breast, and change the glasses to Black. I don't know if it would be possible to do that, or if any of that would be really hard to implement. Just thought it would be neat.

But like I said, I still think this is a cool little program, even for what it can already do.

Thanks!

And you can already change the colors a little bit, by clicking the color wheel icon (button 3 in the 'Controls' picture in the first post). While you can't flip the colors of the suit around, you CAN make the sunglasses black, by selecting the glasses and dragging all three color sliders up. Or by copying the following text and select 'Load from clipboard' when clicking on the 'Load' button:

Code:

[Bodyparts]
Bodies=Bodies\Body_four_aces_1.png
Symbols=Off
Heads=Heads\Head_Kids.png
Mouths=Mouths\Mouth_Gamzee_Makara.png
Hairdos=Hairdos\Hair_John_Egbert.png
Eyes=Eyes\Eyes_Terezi_Pyrope.png
[Eyes]
Color=0

If you want more control over the torso and legs separately, you could remove the 'bodies' body part and add two body parts 'Torsos' and 'Legs'. There's an explanation in the first post on how to add your own body parts, let me know if it's unclear or too longwinded. Though cropping the legs and torsos separately from the sprites could get a bit tricky. I think it's a bit too much detail to make that the default setting though (except maybe with Tavros's jetcar, hmm...)
The included eye sprites are cropped from the official images. Again, you could make a separate left and right eye 'body part', but that would get too detailed, and it would get annoying to have to change each eye separately.

Also, something I thought off the other day: With the alpha slider, you can already make parts invisible. Is the separate 'Invisibility' button still necessary, or should I remove it to reduce clutter? I welcome your opinions!

**introvertedOptimist** · 09-17-2010, 07:42 PM

Awwww....

Dreams really do come true

**TacticGamer** · 09-17-2010, 07:59 PM

Couldn't you just edit in an image editor program?

I mean, you can manipulate a lot of things!

For example:

**Vinni** · 09-17-2010, 08:13 PM

Some of the eyes are too low/high, I think this could be fixed.

**Didero** · 09-21-2010, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by laptopPsyche

Awwww....

Dreams really do come true

Glad you're still enjoying this

Originally Posted by TacticGamer

Couldn't you just edit in an image editor program?

I mean, you can manipulate a lot of things!

For example:

Yeah, this program can't do everything for you, sadly. I'd like to find a better way to change colours of body parts, but annoyingly Game Maker is pretty limited here.
But if you, or anybody else, have any suggestions on how to improve the usability of the program, or any new features you like to see, I'd love to hear them!

Originally Posted by Vinni

Some of the eyes are too low/high, I think this could be fixed.

I know, especially the troll eyes are too high. For version 0.7 I've thought up something that could make it easier to change the location of multiple images for a body part.
After I've added a lot more images, I'll upload the new version. But I'm very busy with an assignment, so it won't be before the weekend

**joslai** · 10-10-2010, 11:12 PM

To me mine turned out good!

**introvertedOptimist** · 10-15-2010, 11:57 PM

Congrats.

**cautiousCapricorn** · 10-16-2010, 12:12 AM

I love you thread creator

Wait did I just type that?

**DarkSenshi** · 10-21-2010, 11:00 PM

This is pretty nifty. Could use some tweaking and expansion, but it is about time someone came up with it.

Presuming that you will factor in other parts missing from other characters, some things that would really help would be:

-Making the object placement adjustable: For instance, Gamzee's makeup only works with Gamzee's eyes. It would help if a person could adjust the placement of the eyes and mouth to fit with the makeup

-Split objects like the cape and overcoat from the rest of the clothing as a secondary option, that way if someone say: wants to wear john's shorts with the cape or overcoat, they would be able to do so. Same goes for the troll horns.

-On the subject of the troll horns, they need color work (I could not make them blue for instance) and if you seperated them from the hair, it would allow the hair to be a different color.

-And of course, any out-of-homestuck options are very welcome, so your character is a bit more original than Gamzee's hair with Jade's glasses and eyes. This will develop more with user input I beleive.

Sorry for what really seems like a long list of complaints, but I hope this may give you some ideas. It really is a good concept.

**lexavian** · 12-11-2010, 01:00 PM

Suggestions:

Pretty awesome program and idea!

**Didero** · 12-12-2010, 08:13 AM

Oh hey, people are still interested enough in this to post!

I haven't worked on this for a long time because of classwork (and laziness >_>). And now with finals starting I won't be able to work on this for a while. But I'll see what I can do after that!