Better Skeletons & More!

GeoffreyD · 2015-11-14T11:56:04+0900

Ladies and Gentlemen: I've lurked around the forums for about 18 months but never bothered to get involved. With the advent of MV, which I just picked up on Steam the other night, I thought I might try to become more involved and even contribute a little. Hence, this topic. Without further ado, things! Credits & Terms of Usage! You must have purchased, or otherwise legally own, an RPG Maker MV license. You must credit EnterBrain, Inc. and Kadokawa as appropriate. You must credit any additional persons indicated for a particular resource. Please do not credit me -- I'm just some guy on the internet. Better Skeletons! The skeleton sprite that is included with RPG Maker MV is a little scary and a little cute. It might not be what game designers are looking for when they search for a skeleton. I've make some simple edits to clean it up a bit. Removed the necklace and headdress. Picked some new colors for the loincloth that made more sense for undead critters than pink. The basic skull face looked a little to zen for me, so I gave it a slight snarl by furrowing the brow and adjusting the teeth. Bonus: An alternate version with nice red glowies in the eye sockets . Spoiler Horny Better Skeletons! These skeletons have wicked black horns, borrowed from the minotaur-looking guy on the monsters sheet. Spoiler Animated Specimen Tanks I needed some specimen tanks for a map I was working on... so I created some using the metal industrial-looking column from the SF_Inside and SF_Outside tilesets. Fourteen colors: primary, secondary, tertiary, black, and white. Transparent and opaque fluids. Bonus: empty specimen tank and without glass. Spoiler And here's a screen capture. Animated Water Autotile Edits I was working on a small map using the snow tiles from the Outside tileset. I came to a certain place where I needed the river to cascade over a cliff and continue at the bottom. Unfortunately, the the water + snow autotile in Outside-A1 appears to be frozen, or at least it differs enough in color that it did not look quite right to me butted up against the waterfall cliff tiles. I was able to crop out the water from the water + grass autotile in Outside-A1 and the stony embankment from the wwamp autotile in Outside-A2 and combine them to create an animated stony banked water autotile I could apply to any terrain autotile I needed. Spoiler Animated Water + Snow Autotile Animated Water + Dirt Autotile Animated Water + Sand Autotile Animated Water + Transparency Autotile Changelog Spoiler 2015/11/13 - Initial post. 2015/11/14 - Better Better Skeletons and Horny Better Skeletons. 2015/12/10 - Added specimen tanks animations. 2015/12/10 - Did some cleanup on the topic. Comments and criticism are equally welcome. This is all for now.

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Started by GeoffreyD Nov 14, 2015, 02:56 AM 18 posts View original ↗

GeoffreyD

#1 Nov 14, 2015, 02:56 AM Source
Ladies and Gentlemen:

I've lurked around the forums for about 18 months but never bothered to get involved. With the advent of MV, which I just picked up on Steam the other night, I thought I might try to become more involved and even contribute a little. Hence, this topic.

Without further ado, things!

Credits & Terms of Usage!
- You must have purchased, or otherwise legally own, an RPG Maker MV license.
- You must credit EnterBrain, Inc. and Kadokawa as appropriate.
- You must credit any additional persons indicated for a particular resource.
- Please do not credit me -- I'm just some guy on the internet.
Better Skeletons!

The skeleton sprite that is included with RPG Maker MV is a little scary and a little cute. It might not be what game designers are looking for when they search for a skeleton. I've make some simple edits to clean it up a bit.
- Removed the necklace and headdress.
- Picked some new colors for the loincloth that made more sense for undead critters than pink.
- The basic skull face looked a little to zen for me, so I gave it a slight snarl by furrowing the brow and adjusting the teeth.
- Bonus: An alternate version with nice red glowies in the eye sockets .
Spoiler

Horny Better Skeletons!

These skeletons have wicked black horns, borrowed from the minotaur-looking guy on the monsters sheet.

Spoiler
Animated Specimen Tanks

I needed some specimen tanks for a map I was working on... so I created some using the metal industrial-looking column from the SF_Inside and SF_Outside tilesets.
- Fourteen colors: primary, secondary, tertiary, black, and white.
- Transparent and opaque fluids.
- Bonus: empty specimen tank and without glass.
Spoiler

And here's a screen capture.

Animated Water Autotile Edits
I was working on a small map using the snow tiles from the Outside tileset. I came to a certain place where I needed the river to cascade over a cliff and continue at the bottom. Unfortunately, the the water + snow autotile in Outside-A1 appears to be frozen, or at least it differs enough in color that it did not look quite right to me butted up against the waterfall cliff tiles. I was able to crop out the water from the water + grass autotile in Outside-A1 and the stony embankment from the wwamp autotile in Outside-A2 and combine them to create an animated stony banked water autotile I could apply to any terrain autotile I needed.

Spoiler
Animated Water + Snow Autotile

Animated Water + Dirt Autotile

Animated Water + Sand Autotile

Animated Water + Transparency Autotile

Changelog

Spoiler
2015/11/13 - Initial post.

2015/11/14 - Better Better Skeletons and Horny Better Skeletons.

2015/12/10 - Added specimen tanks animations.

2015/12/10 - Did some cleanup on the topic.
Comments and criticism are equally welcome.
This is all for now.
topar395

#2 Nov 14, 2015, 03:42 PM Source

Hey "Some Guy" these Skellys are great! You do nice work. Thanks for sharing!
GeoffreyD

#3 Nov 15, 2015, 12:45 AM Source

Made some small improvements and added horny skeletons!

The old skeletons might still be useful to someone so, contrary to my initial inclination, I refrained from removing them.
TheStoryteller01

#4 Nov 15, 2015, 01:14 AM Source

Horny Better Skeletons
Aw......I thought you had made an improved version of the skelly dancer (pun intended :D ).

No, seriously love what you've done. Keep up the good work!
GeoffreyD

#5 Nov 15, 2015, 01:19 AM Source

TheStoryteller01 said:
Aw......I thought you had made an improved version of the skelly dancer (pun intended :D ).
Technically, that's what I did. ;-)
DBDragoner

#6 Nov 15, 2015, 01:23 AM Source

I like these skeletons. They looks great. Thank you for the hard work.
Strange_Dragon_99

#7 Nov 17, 2015, 03:56 PM Source

Love the skeletons! Great work!
omen613

#8 Nov 20, 2015, 08:33 PM Source

Nice skeletons! Hope to see more additions
goldenhades

#9 Nov 26, 2015, 01:56 AM Source

Skeleton Army incoming better watch out !!!!
GeoffreyD

#10 Dec 11, 2015, 03:58 AM Source

Added animated specimen tanks! :D
The Stranger

#11 Dec 11, 2015, 10:08 AM Source

I really like the specimen tanks. I've needed some for my own project, too. Thank you so much for sharing. :)
SLEEP

#12 Dec 12, 2015, 07:50 AM Source

no really did you make Horny Better Skeletons just so you could have an excuse to use those words in sequence. i dont care if you did or not, i approve lmao
The Infamous Bon Bon

#13 Dec 12, 2015, 05:06 PM Source

Quality edits.

I like all the variety with the skeletons and specimen tanks. I also appreciated that you specified how you made them that helps me visualize how I can make edits myself.
TheGamedawg

#14 Jan 15, 2016, 01:08 AM Source

Those are really cool. I especially like the test tubes.
kaukusaki

#15 Jan 15, 2016, 08:03 AM Source

Totes awes homie! Great job
Saneterre

#16 Sep 3, 2016, 02:08 PM Source

thanks a lot for the skeletons. I didn't like the default one at all.
GlitchGirl

#17 Feb 24, 2019, 02:43 PM Source

sorry to necropost, but thank you for the skeletons. Much improved over the wacky originals.

FYI: I just made some static battles to go with them if needed.
ZombsBait

#18 Mar 22, 2025, 07:05 AM Source

Whoa, you're an absolute lifesaver! These skellies are awesome!