Side battlers lack support?

[SinのAria]

It seems like most of the enemies are in front view instead of side view. Considering that this was supposed to support side view, I wonder if that was an oversight or if there were files I need to copy over.

Also, it would be great if the character creator had some more villain options and could save in the opposite direction a single sprite in the enemy folder.

 

[SamBargeron]

Oh! I know the answer to this!

Front View enemies are under "img/enemies/" in your project folder.

Side View enemies are under "img/sv_enemies/" in your project folder.

So the game supports side view sprites for enemies (for example if you want to switch between types of combat using a plugin and have the same enemy use different angled sprites).

However, the side view battler images provided by RTP default to just scaled down versions of the front veiw images.

 

[SinのAria]

Ah, so in other words, the reason why it looks like front view still is because it is the same images?

Either way, it would be nice if we could make villains in the character creator and export them directly to the sv_enemies folder as right (or left) facing enemies.

 

[SamBargeron]

I suppose you could, but it'd be a major pain. If I wanted a side view enemy to look like a player battler sprite, I'd probably start by making the player battler sprite. Then I'd isolate the destination image, crop, and flip on the horizontal axis. Then I could move it to the sv_enemies folder and apply it to an enemy. It might be a good solution if a party member turned against the party in your game, etc. But I personally imagine it wouldn't look very good. MV seems to be going for a classic FF look with party members moving and enemies being static but more detailed.

 

[SinのAria]

I suppose you could, but it'd be a major pain. If I wanted a side view enemy to look like a player battler sprite, I'd probably start by making the player battler sprite. Then I'd isolate the destination image, crop, and flip on the horizontal axis. Then I could move it to the sv_enemies folder and apply it to an enemy. It might be a good solution if a party member turned against the party in your game, etc. But I personally imagine it wouldn't look very good. MV seems to be going for a classic FF look with party members moving and enemies being static but more detailed.

I think that the current character creator is more than capable of having somewhat good looking enemy sprites, personally.

That is actually what I ended up doing.