Making a character for SPNatI requires no prior artistic skills or knowledge of
coding.
The art for characters, which includes their 🌞 model and the poses that make up
their sprites, is made in a Japanese paper doll program called Kisekae, which 🌞 is based
on the K-On anime art style and was developed by a user named Pochi. Kisekae has both
an 🌞 online and offline version; the offline version is the one used with other SPNatI
character creation software to make sprites. 🌞 Pochi continues to update Kisekae with new
features to this day.
Many characters' sprites also utilize image editing and other
forms 🌞 of post-processing, such as Photoshop. Additionally, to save file space,
character sprites are compressed using a web tool known as 🌞 TinyPNG.
A character's
dialogue, mechanics, metadata/information, and pose-to-line assignments are found in
their "behaviour.xml" files, which are essentially text documents. Creating 🌞 a .xml file
can be done by using the SPNatI Character Editor program ("CE") to write dialogue. The
CE also 🌞 has built-in support for converting Kisekae scenes ("codes") into character
sprites, which would otherwise have to be done manually.
SPNatI offers 🌞 comprehesive
documentation on our tools, features, and policy in our Official Docs Repo. We highly
recommend any new devs start 🌞 here:
//spnati/docs/
For advice and feedback on how
best to make your character, try interacting with other users on the official subreddit
🌞 and Discord servers:
The majority of community and development discussion takes place
on the Discord servers, while the subreddit is the 🌞 site of official requests for
character entry into the game. You can find links to the Discord servers in the
🌞 suggestion thread.
The following is a Google Doc containing documentation on all the
contributors, characters, works-in-progress, and other information of SPNatI. 🌞 It is
community-run/maintained and completely unofficial; none of the moderators for SPNatI
have editing privileges, and being listed on it 🌞 is not a
rite-of-passage.
//docs.google/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRejQBHSnenImBLUEX5qlmxdop
G0c_O9uWklerYr6v5yJ00_UUcQiOvqC6t6CUeKsRAkd2769YzA67P/pubhtml#
