ALMOST LIKE CHARACTER GENERATOR

[Gad]

I'm really new to this technique, but I think after I'll do some researches I could become few times faster.

hm i somehow cant open the file, i got Macromedia Flash 8.. with which version u created the fla?

I used Cs6
I'll try to upload version compatibile with lower apps...
Nope, checked it out. I can only save it as flash CS5. Damn.
But you might be in an ability of opening xfl or CS5 compressed file. Ill upload both in a while.

EDIT: CHECK IT OUT NOW

with image ready - build into later PS versions - with timeline and layers

My bad, didn't know it happened.

I don't see any big difference to working with Photoshop apart from an inbuild sprite sheet generator and the seemingly nifty symbols. (for people who aren't confident about their initial design and suddenly need to change the head everywhere - alright)

Nope. You're thinking in bad way.
Instead of drawing every part alone, use symbols.
About like 30+ - different legs parts, different heads position, different torsos... will be used in the whole basic sheet.
You change every one of those 30, and HEY! You've got a completly new character. Now you just adjust some frames and don't need to redraw everything.

Gad are you claiming you have evidence that Marti drew LF2 sprites with flash? I wouldn't know about him using flash before he started LF2 development.
And even now his hero fighter sprites still look like he does not draw them as vectors.

No evidences, but:
I'm pretty sure, that Marti used flash. Original sprites (these in zoom, which are somewhere in the forum, I bet you all know them) seem to be not blurred and built by vectors,
IMO LF was meant to be created in flash technology, but there C++ was over it back then.
They just exported everything made in flash, and made up with another language.
How can I say? Vector graphic and flash technology (which has been much modified, so it's very functionable) was used for HF.
I'm pretty damn sure (99,(9)%) that Hero Fighter is using vector graphic for characters. Just look at these arms swinging. If you were using flash there's no way of not noticing that.
Maybe not for everything, but I'm so sure that for some parts.

Moreover, they were using timeline with onion skinning.
Have yo ever looked at davis' pants, when he's breathing? That's almost impossible to do without this technique.
LF was created long time ago, when photoshop wasn't that functionable.
1998 - first version of Adobe Image Ready
1999 - first version of Lf2
I'm pretty sure he didn't use it, and back then there was no other good program using layers and also a timeline, but flash.

I still may be wrong, but I deeply believe in this.
We could eventually ask them... such a shame for me if it wasn't true.


Aaaah. Anyway.
I find this method very good, if not the best.
I know I can't, and I'm not going to persuade you all to download flash and work on it (not with one topic, for sure).