Originally posted by Metal Knuckles

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Ah, I do believe this is my area of expertise. One of the few, anyways.

In SonikSprite, there are three kinds of areas in the picture box. Pink boxes, which are the edges of the tiles, grey boxes, which are reused areas, and blanks boxes (aka not grey or pink), which are editable.

What SonikSprite (refereed to from this point on as SS for my convenience) does is take all the tiles from the ROM, like TLP or Molester. So all the information it contains is basically what Shyguy already showed:



The program takes this information and arranges it in the correct order, making it easier for editing. However, when arranged to for the image, the tiles do not always form a regular four sided box. With some images, such as Sonic laying down, tiles are not used at the top of the image. So pink boxes are put in place of the missing tiles, to show that the area is unused information, aka no tiles. No tiles to edit, no changes to the ROM. Not happening. Nadah. Yoink.

Also, some tiles are reused in different images for one character, which brings the grey boxes into play. If you look at some of the later Sonic running sprites, you'll notice the grey boxes appearing over his head. This area can not be edited from that selection, because it is taking the head tiles from a previous running sprite. To edit that part of the image, go back to where it takes the tiles from, edit the image there, and it should be edited when you go back.

You might have to go searching for where some of the tiles are taken from in the grey boxes, so it might be useful to just remember them before you edit them. Just something that helps me out.

All the other areas are just regular tiles, and are fair game to edit as long as you keep it in the correct palette range. And SS already takes care of that, even when you edit the palettes. So it's really just a case of learning to check back and forth between different sprites, seeing what tiles connect what images, and making them so they each correspond with eachother.

And they all lived happily ever after.

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Originally posted by Metal Knuckles

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Megaman, use TLP to open the ROM, and download this:

http://sonicology.fateback.com/downloads/tpl/TPLs.rar

This is a group of palette files for different Sonic games, and included are the palettes for main characters in Sonic 3/&K. Open that palette while the ROM is loaded, and the tiles should go to the correct palette.

Also, for editing the palettes throughout the entire game, download ChaoSaxPal:

http://sonicology.fateback.com/downloads/utilities/chaospal.rar

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Originally posted by Kyoufu Kawa

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Ah, the eternal color problem.

Fortunately, if -you- know -where- the colors are, Tile Molester can be told these locations and you can even edit the colors from TM. Don't forget to save a palette bookmark

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Originally posted by Danielle

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I'm going with Kirby, but only because he's so darn cute. In terms of actually understanding this poll... I don't know.

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Originally posted by Zem

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Yessir. Should I send the invite to the address you have in your "MSN Messenger Email" field?

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