Expressions and Layer Systems

Sketched New Expressions to Add in the Project!

I was looking for references and was actually pretty surprised to discover that Yoshida-Sensei doesn't actually draw that much expressions. I only did find one angry guy concept art from him but it was in a more realistic style which doesn't really fit what I'm going for. Ended up looking through Cygames' stuff and other artist with similar style like junwool and BraveKing. Kinda odd actually drawing them with expressive faces but I did try to keep them in line with the style, and also added goofier ones just for the sake of it.

Added more Features

Revamped the color pickers, I think they look pretty cool. Added a new Layer tab which replaces the main contents with Images that builds up an object(e.g. the hair). You can hide stuff and also recolor them part by part! If you change the colors in the main tab though, it changes all of them. Also added a Copy button(the orange thing in the left) that duplicates the object you are working on. It copies any changes made with layer visibility and colors. Hovering layer names highlights the part  it is associated with.

This actually took quite a bit of work to get running. 1 Hairstyle basically meant I had to deal with 8 different parts, while juggling with 16 images for the lineart and mask. Imagining myself doing that for the rest of the pieces is just a bit much. So I started thinking of just automating the process and realized that I could also add that as a feature for User created assets. Here's me playing around and making a beard out of the bits from the hair.

Character Creator Devlog 2 from exportVar on Vimeo.