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Update for 0.1.1

2D Character Creator
A downloadable asset pack for Windows

New Hairstyles!

Additional images are generated when you save

Couldn't find a way to save directly to a .PSD format so just settled with separate images instead. 

Unfortunately for the glow part, it pretty much affects the final render based on the objects around it. So if I hide the lineart and capture just the colors, the color will differ compared to the final render. I did save the individual images anyway just incase you have any use for it. 

As for the mask, I just combined all of them into a single image, but with randomized solid colors. They may be issues in areas where I use transparency to blend to colors together (e.g. around the eyes and hair)  so if you want them in individual images instead then just leave a comment and let me know.

I tried recreating it in SAI and here's the closest that I could get it to:

Steps:

  • Clip everything under transparency mask
  • Make color_mask your selection source
  • Multiply lineart effects under raw_color
  • Get raw_color with glow enabled and apply a strong Gaussian Blur filter, set to Linear Dodge(Shine in Sai, Add(Glow) in CSP).
  • For the iris, just clipped the iris part in lineart_effects making use of the selection source, then just clipped a solid color to match the final render.

The reason the iris is red in the final render is because I'm faking overlay in my App by stacking together 3 different layers of lineart. So if you don't wan't to deal with that then just turn the 3 Lineart layers to black. 

I'm working on a new version that makes use of shaders instead of just stacked images so it should translate more easily to photoshop or other editing programs.

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