Sole Female Cape Top Down Character Pack

This asset pack is really unorganized. I’m having to do a lot of editing to make this usable.

My notes are about the “Sole Female Main File.zip”. Your choice of version controlling the releases on the itch.io page are a different issue.

Some notes about that file:

• Small misspellings and weird naming schemes. I googled the word “Unsheathe” and I don’t think it is a real word. should be “Unsheathed”. In “Sole Female Main\Legacy Red\Front”, “Base Base” should be “Bow Base”. These things are small but mean a lot when game devs are trying to create automated tools base off of patterns that they see between characters.
• Inconsistent direction sheets. The placement of the sprites on directional sprite sheets is sometimes completely inconsistent with the others. For example: In the “Legacy Red” folder, the “Back Spritesheet”, “Back Side Spritesheet”, “Front Side Spritesheet” all follow a consistent pattern, but the “Front Spritesheet” is just a completely different pattern. This makes using the spritesheet very difficult as a game dev since I would have to make a new spritesheet index for every separate direction or recreate the front spritesheet so that it is consistent with the rest (what I am currently doing). Recreating the sheet is also time-consuming because I don’t have a good enough grasp of what animations are being used in the other animations to do it quickly.
• The Back Spritesheet for Crimson Red is literally just the wrong character.
• The Idle Collection sheet files. Why are the frames being forced into a 5x5 box sequentially? It makes it really hard to know which frames belong to which animation. Just put them all on seperate rows like you’ve down for all the other animations.
• The Idle Collection sheet for Crimson Red just has a random crown above one of the characters.
• This note is less of an issue and more of a recommendation. You can add annotations to each of the animations in the bigger spritesheets. For example, you can put “Sword Slash 1” in an unused frame on the bigger sheet to orient people. Much better than a bunch of animations scattered with no description.

Consistency is really key here. There are just a bunch of these really small issues that make it really annoying to use in my game. I think a lot of people expect more out of an asset pack they are paying money for. I can’t really recommend this pack wholheartedly to anyone unless this is fixed.

I think that the main issue here is your workflow when you are creating these spritesheets. You should not be organizing these spritesheets by hand (which it seems like you are doing). You should have some sort of automated system that generates these spritesheets for you based off of your individual animations.

I REALLY like your animations. Very fluid and I like the character design. This asset pack is entirely inhibited by the fact that it is a pain to use because it is unorganized in multiple ways. Please make some changes to how to generate and publish your asset packs. I would love to see what you make in the future.

Hey!

Which of the two downloads is the most recent one?

There's two "Solo Female Main File.zip" files, with varying file sizes, which when extracted contain "Solo Female Main" and "Solo Female Main File", which I can't tell the difference between.

Also, since I originally used the old files I was looking to update them to the new ones, but the new walk cycle seems a bit off compared to the older version, notably the head bobbing in the walk animation. 

The animation starts frame 1 with the head down, followed by frame 2 and 3 with the head up, followed by frame 4 and 5 with the head down again, but frame 6 moves the head up again, which doesn't loop back nicely to frame 1 with the head down. 

Is this intended?

Thanks!

do you perhaps accept payments other than Paypal? crypto maybe? 

could you make it purchasable with credit card as well as paypal? its an account setting i believe, though it may be tied to the project.

I really like the newly updated Sprite!

By the way, the Phase 1 update says it contains a spin slash Sprite, but I couldn't find it in the file. Is it missing? Or will it be added to the next update?

As always looking great! I hope the termite problem is solved soon!

Just a quick question, on the page it says 3 different characters are included - but I can only see update files for 1/3 (Crimson Red); is that correct for now?

Thank you!

Long awaited update！ Just wondering though, will there be a difference between this and the full version of the other Red Sprite 4 Directional, as I remember this used to be the full version of Red Sprite here.

Love the new update! Amazing work again!

This is amazing! But something wrong with my paypal. Could you add payment methods for credit card? Sorry, my English is poor, i am not a native speaker of English.

Hello, first of all, great work! I plan on setting up your sprites on unity and implementing the animations on the engine, but I don't think I can finish a game by myself. Would you be interested in selling the sprite with those implementations? I know you already have a great sprite, but that could make more people interested in your work. Let me know if that is something you would be interested in. Thanks!

Something I did with your assets: https://clerium.itch.io/small-worlds

This is amazing,but i need Magic Animation,Will see it soon?I'm trying to buy it.Are there any other payment methods?qaq

Wow, this is amazing I love your art

5 stars

Amazing upgrade for the character!

A question though, is the Piercing Stab png wrong in the Top Down -> Back folder? It is the same as the Front one, and flipping it looks wrong perspective-wise.

would like to buy it with a card, can't use paypal. q~q

Hi, I don't think all sprites are in aseprite format yet. Is this still a work in progress?

Wonderful character - will make a nice story with her - love the art and very expressive too :D - my daughters will love playing her and explore dungeons.

Why am I just now seeing this? You did an excellent job! I look forward to purchasing more from you.

I just bought this pack and your art style is amazing! Do you plan on continuing with the updates on this one and/or releasing supplementary packs in this style?

Looks great! I’m a bit confused though, I only see animation examples for the one character, are there animations for the other characters in the pack as well?

Hi, this character is really cool. Is it possible for you to make a version for 2d platform game?

heyy i just brought the pack for my next game as i am a solo dev and kinda weak in art skill, i am going to modify it little bit i love the way it is but as of my story i wanna make some changes , thank you very much for sharing this :D

edit : i will surely credit you once i publish the game :D

I love it! 

But side stab file equals back stab file.

Pls check it out.

Love your character! A jump animation could be good also. Are you making a game?

What a great art! It's a masterpiece!

I think it would be more convenient if the asset was provided in the form of a sprite with no shadows on the floor.

Really nice character.  Death and Hit animation would be very helpful.  Also,  do you do private commissions?