Minor Update: Added the current database into a working build that should be compatible with Schlangan's latest generators. No tags & other things have been applied, just porting of the raw files & data. Thanks to shash over on the discord for pointing out how the old data can be imported.
I have uploaded the latest build down below. This does not feature anything new, it is merely done so people having issues with not being able to get Schlangan's older generator can find and download a working build now. The Fat Merchant DLC is included in the pack.
It is still unfinished and it probably never will be.
Old Thread Text
UPDATE: The TAB Project is currently in the process of being transferred to Schlangan's new generator, and I'm working with K2loid in getting really tall battlers added to it.
If you're interested in helping, if you have suggestions, or just want to see what's going on, feel free to check it out:
Join the Tall Adult Body Discord Server!
DLC Pack 1 "Fat Merchant" (People1_5) added
Update 1 for v.91 uploaded
Warning: You need to own the RPG MAKER MV and have the Dark Fantasy character pack to use this.
Beta Version: This is a beta version. Some things may not function perfectly, the FG portrait pictures are still a work in progress. Please report any errors you may encounter.
This tool is no longer in active development. Occasionally an update may arrive that adds a few things, but other projects are consuming my time.
Disregard the recruitment part.
The goal of this project is to provide the community with a fully fleshed out generator base for tall adult body sprites for both face graphics (FG) and characters (TV). (Sideview characters are currently not planned)
Current Progress & Features:
Roadmap:
FAQ:
Recruitment:
Face Graphic Artists & Character Spriters Needed
Creating New Content
Suggestions & Feedback:
If you have any other suggestions or feedback, feel free to contact me or post in this thread.
Please don't write about missing portraits. Those are currently still WIP. If you encounter other problems, make sure to report them. When you do, it's preferable if you mention the affected parts in full name or - even better - save the character via the extended generator's save function and attach the character save file to the report. That way I can load it into the editor and check things out straight away.
If you're interested in helping, if you have suggestions, or just want to see what's going on, feel free to check it out:
Join the Tall Adult Body Discord Server!
DLC Pack 1 "Fat Merchant" (People1_5) added
Update 1 for v.91 uploaded
Warning: You need to own the RPG MAKER MV and have the Dark Fantasy character pack to use this.
Beta Version: This is a beta version. Some things may not function perfectly, the FG portrait pictures are still a work in progress. Please report any errors you may encounter.
This tool is no longer in active development. Occasionally an update may arrive that adds a few things, but other projects are consuming my time.
Disregard the recruitment part.
The goal of this project is to provide the community with a fully fleshed out generator base for tall adult body sprites for both face graphics (FG) and characters (TV). (Sideview characters are currently not planned)
Current Progress & Features:
- New Sheet Size: 97x97 character slots (291x388 per character, 1164x776 for a 8 character sheet); this allows for more possibilities both in height and width.
- All Generator Parts except clothing and cloak 1&2 have been converted
- Clothing & Body: Thanks to WaywardMartian, a total over 60 clothing/armor variants exist (30+ for male, 30+ for female), as well as 5 Bodies & Heads, four with fixed skin color and one with a gradient mask
- Headgear exists as a new type of generator part, allowing up to 4 mask colors for color variations as well as 3 layers for face graphics. (back, sides, front) WaywardMartian also edited the Dark Fantasy Actors and made 8 Headgears useable by male and female characters
- Body & Head as well as Heads & Ears are separated from each other to allow independent use and open more possibilities
- Clothing is divided into Clothing (civilian clothing) and Armor (military uniforms or armor)
- Other new body part types (currently empty) include Skin Marks (which can be used to show all kinds of things on the skin), Armor Parts (which allows armor modifications such as spikes, sigils and other things to be placed over armors), Weapons & Shields (which enables you to add handheld weapons and shields to the character)
Roadmap:
Phase 1: Establishing a generator base (<--- current phase)
Phase 3: Fill the generator with content, bugfixing & polish
Phase 4: Expansion possibilities (These are things that could be done in theory but would require some effort)
- Flesh out all new Clothing & Armor with a fitting FG graphic [in progress]
- Separate Arms from Bodies to make them compatible with beards [done]
- Turn the remaining Dark Fantasy NPCs into generator assets (clothing, accessories, etc.) [in progress]
- Fixing the color mixup caused by the generator [done]
- Sort clothing & armor into the right categories [done]
- Add more expression FG graphics (Eyes, Eyebrows, Mouth) to cover all emotions and use a clear sorting system to make them seem less random and unconnected [not yet started]
- Using an automated script to truncate the hair variants and importing them into the headgear hair variants. These allow you to retain the hairstyle of the character when wearing a helmet, but the parts that would cause clipping issues with the headgears are cut away) [not yet started]
- Create a second head type (1 pixel shorter from each side), use a Photoshop Action Script + Retouching to create a variant of all hairstyles and accessories for it, add neckline anti-clipping pixels to the armor variants via Photoshop Action Script & batch edit function [done]
- Create example assets for Skin Marks, Armor Parts and Weapons & Shields [not yet started]
Phase 3: Fill the generator with content, bugfixing & polish
- Identify missing content and fill out the content base [not yet started]
- If enough content from different settings exists (fantasy, modern world, sci-fi) I may reduce the default generator base just to universal things and instead package the generator parts into themed packs that you can download separately, so you only have things of the setting you intend to work with. [pure concept]
Phase 4: Expansion possibilities (These are things that could be done in theory but would require some effort)
- Use Photoshop Action Scripts to increase the size of Armors & reposition assets to make 2 new height types so that characters can be created in 3 height variants (normal, tall, very tall) [pure concept]
- Possibly more than 2 head types? [pure concept]
- Some assets & a base for child characters [pure concept]
- FG graphics could be converted via Photoshop Action Scripts to serve as Face foundation for a Bust creator [pure concept, unlikely without artists who create bust graphics for clothing & armor]
- Sideview characters [pure concept, very unlikely since much of the characters would have to be drawn from scratch)
- Pose creator [pure concept, theoretically doable, allows individual positioning of 12x16 elements per sheet unlike the default 4x2, very very unlikely, due to the immense effort necessary even with automated scripts doing what could theoretically be automated]
FAQ:
Q: Why are there 2 character sprite sheets?
A: There are two different headtypes. A default headtype and a slim headtype. Regardless of what parts you pick, you will always have the option to export either style.
Q: What’s “TAB” stand for, and why is it in the upper left hand corner of every icon?
A: It stands for “Tall Adult Body” and is used as a watermark to distinguish generator parts made for / or made compatible with the TAB generator from those that aren’t compatible. This is done to prevent confusion and people not being certain of what generator a part is meant for – especially when people mix multiple types of sprites. If you see the watermark on the icon, chances are you can’t use it with default sprites. Likewise, if the watermark isn’t there, you probably can’t use it with the TAB generator.
Q: What does the symbol in the lower left hand corner of the icon mean?
A: That’s the logo of the creator and indicates who made or edited the sprite. Currently, pretty much everything that isn’t original RTP stuff from Kadokawa is WaywardMartian’s.
Q: What about the symbols in the lower right of any icon?
A: These give you additional info about the icon straight away. FG for example means that this part only appear on the face graphics. FC stands for Fixed Color and means that the hue is intentionally fixed to a specific base color to give you color bases that the gradient can’t provide.
Q: What are the terms of service?
A: There are no TOS dictated by me (since I don’t own any of the sprites) but instead the TOS of the artists apply. Anything inside this generator base is present only with explicit permission of the artist and only if the artists TOS include free private and commercial use. Everything included in the generator is thus free for private and commercial use – so long as the artist does not revoke that license.
Always make sure to check the TOS of the artists before publishing anything. Their threads are ALWAYS linked here, their generator parts marked with their logos, a brief key (e.g. WWM for WaywardMartian) is at the start of the part name and their name is registered for every part they’ve contributed.
ALWAYS GIVE CREDIT.
Q: When can I expect the full release?
A: Currently the generator is in its beta phase. Updates will come as new FG portrait pictures are done and other things are added or fixed.
Q: I don't want to rebuild characters from scratch every time an update comes around...
Use the extended editor's "save character" feature to save your generator parts selection. Once an update comes around, load the character and export the updated sprites.
Q: Can I help?
A: Absolutely. Check out the recruitment part below.
A: There are two different headtypes. A default headtype and a slim headtype. Regardless of what parts you pick, you will always have the option to export either style.
Q: What’s “TAB” stand for, and why is it in the upper left hand corner of every icon?
A: It stands for “Tall Adult Body” and is used as a watermark to distinguish generator parts made for / or made compatible with the TAB generator from those that aren’t compatible. This is done to prevent confusion and people not being certain of what generator a part is meant for – especially when people mix multiple types of sprites. If you see the watermark on the icon, chances are you can’t use it with default sprites. Likewise, if the watermark isn’t there, you probably can’t use it with the TAB generator.
Q: What does the symbol in the lower left hand corner of the icon mean?
A: That’s the logo of the creator and indicates who made or edited the sprite. Currently, pretty much everything that isn’t original RTP stuff from Kadokawa is WaywardMartian’s.
Q: What about the symbols in the lower right of any icon?
A: These give you additional info about the icon straight away. FG for example means that this part only appear on the face graphics. FC stands for Fixed Color and means that the hue is intentionally fixed to a specific base color to give you color bases that the gradient can’t provide.
Q: What are the terms of service?
A: There are no TOS dictated by me (since I don’t own any of the sprites) but instead the TOS of the artists apply. Anything inside this generator base is present only with explicit permission of the artist and only if the artists TOS include free private and commercial use. Everything included in the generator is thus free for private and commercial use – so long as the artist does not revoke that license.
Always make sure to check the TOS of the artists before publishing anything. Their threads are ALWAYS linked here, their generator parts marked with their logos, a brief key (e.g. WWM for WaywardMartian) is at the start of the part name and their name is registered for every part they’ve contributed.
ALWAYS GIVE CREDIT.
Q: When can I expect the full release?
A: Currently the generator is in its beta phase. Updates will come as new FG portrait pictures are done and other things are added or fixed.
Q: I don't want to rebuild characters from scratch every time an update comes around...
Use the extended editor's "save character" feature to save your generator parts selection. Once an update comes around, load the character and export the updated sprites.
Q: Can I help?
A: Absolutely. Check out the recruitment part below.
Recruitment:
This generator is designed to be a tool for the community to use tall sprites - even for those who are artistically challenged when it comes to spriting. (Like me. Without an artist like WaywardMartian, none of this could have ever happened.) I hope that this project will encourage artists to create assets for this size type, knowing that there’s a functional generator and an asset base for interested developers.
But there’s only so much any one person can do. While things are slowly moving toward the end of phase 1, my time is often split between trying to turn existing FG parts into fitting graphics for WaywardMartian’s sprites, working on the fixes for some minor character issues (like getting the arms on separate sheets) and doing detail work in the generator (which requires hard-editing of the data.dat file).
But there’s only so much any one person can do. While things are slowly moving toward the end of phase 1, my time is often split between trying to turn existing FG parts into fitting graphics for WaywardMartian’s sprites, working on the fixes for some minor character issues (like getting the arms on separate sheets) and doing detail work in the generator (which requires hard-editing of the data.dat file).
Face Graphic Artists & Character Spriters Needed
Currently needed:
The four most pressing things of Phase 1:
- Face Grapic Artists who can help turn the default FGs to ones matching the character sprites
- Character Spriters who can help touch up on character sprites and character hair
The four most pressing things of Phase 1:
- Face graphics for armors & clothing that don’t have any yet or only have placeholders
- Character’s arms being put onto separate sheets (to fix beard clipping)
- Dark Fantasy assets converted into generator parts (both the character sprites as well as the face graphics)
- Face graphics (eyes, eyebrows, mouth) that show different emotions and clearly belong to the same eye/mouth/eyebrow type (unlike the default mess where different eye types are all cluttered about)
Creating New Content
I'd love to see content created for the new sprites, but especially for new categories that currently don't have any.
These are:
If you’re an artist interested in creating generator parts for this body type (especially anything in Phase 2 and 3) that you’d like to contribute to the generator, I’d love for you to get in touch.
Even if you're planning to release it seperately from the generator, it's probably helpful.
There’s a lot of stuff I can do to like extending color masks ranges, adding new categories or layers, etc. that may open possibilities that are blocked in the default generator, allowing you to do things that were previously impossible. (e.g. Headgears with 3 layers)
I can probably tell you if something that was impossible in the default generator can be made possible in Schlangan’s extended generator.
These are:
- Weapons & Shields that can be held by the character
- Skin Marks which are effects laid over the body, such as scars, dirt, body hair, nipples, body tatoos, stomach abs, etc.
- Armor Parts which can be placed over armor. These can be belts, pauldrons, chestplates, cuirasses, insignias, trims, boots & sabatons, mail skirts, vambraces, gauntlets, gold & silver embossing, runes & runic engravings, glyphs, corrugation lines, etc.
- Cloaks since there currently are only two, and they're more like shawls.
If you’re an artist interested in creating generator parts for this body type (especially anything in Phase 2 and 3) that you’d like to contribute to the generator, I’d love for you to get in touch.
Even if you're planning to release it seperately from the generator, it's probably helpful.
There’s a lot of stuff I can do to like extending color masks ranges, adding new categories or layers, etc. that may open possibilities that are blocked in the default generator, allowing you to do things that were previously impossible. (e.g. Headgears with 3 layers)
I can probably tell you if something that was impossible in the default generator can be made possible in Schlangan’s extended generator.
Suggestions & Feedback:
If you have any other suggestions or feedback, feel free to contact me or post in this thread.
Please don't write about missing portraits. Those are currently still WIP. If you encounter other problems, make sure to report them. When you do, it's preferable if you mention the affected parts in full name or - even better - save the character via the extended generator's save function and attach the character save file to the report. That way I can load it into the editor and check things out straight away.
Credits:
- WaywardMartian
Go check out his thread:
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/waywards-mv-resources-battlers-sprites-tiles-update-190901-sprite-modular-actor4_2.108090/
You’ll find a lot of amazing sprites designed to be used in a modular style in Photoshop and similar programs to craft tall sprites per hand. If you like anything about this generator, go and give him a like.
- Schlangan
Please check out his thread and give him a like for his amazing work:
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/rpg-maker-mv-extended-generator-version-alpha-0-09-update-on-the-4th-january-2018.56569/
Old Instructions
The generator prototype:
TAB Generator Base Version 0.91 (Update 1, +8 clothes for female, +8 armor for male, +1 front & rear hair for female)
TAB Generator Base Version 0.9 (Beta): (OUTDATED)
https://workupload.com/file/SeTjJgBr
Instructions:
1. Extract the archive into a folder of your choosing.
2. Go to Schlangan's extended generator site and download his latest *.exe file.
3. Put the *.exe file into the folder you extracted the generator base to.
4. Launch RPG_Maker_MV_Extended_Generator.exe
DLC Packs:
1. The Fat Merchant DLC (People1_5)
DLC Install Instructions:
"File" -> "Manage Assets Wizard" -> "Add New Resources" -> "Import a RXGE File" -> "Select File" -> Choose This File -> "Start Importation" -> "Done"
For Content Creators:
TAB Content Creator Guide & Pack v0.9
https://workupload.com/file/tVFATp3w
TAB Generator Base Version 0.91 (Update 1, +8 clothes for female, +8 armor for male, +1 front & rear hair for female)
TAB Generator Base Version 0.9 (Beta): (OUTDATED)
https://workupload.com/file/SeTjJgBr
Instructions:
1. Extract the archive into a folder of your choosing.
2. Go to Schlangan's extended generator site and download his latest *.exe file.
3. Put the *.exe file into the folder you extracted the generator base to.
4. Launch RPG_Maker_MV_Extended_Generator.exe
DLC Packs:
1. The Fat Merchant DLC (People1_5)
DLC Install Instructions:
"File" -> "Manage Assets Wizard" -> "Add New Resources" -> "Import a RXGE File" -> "Select File" -> Choose This File -> "Start Importation" -> "Done"
For Content Creators:
TAB Content Creator Guide & Pack v0.9
https://workupload.com/file/tVFATp3w
Download Link
Version with Schlangan's 0.68a Generator
Version with Schlangan's 0.10 Generator (old version)
TAB 0.9x unofficial