changes mech sprites!

[githubuser4141]

About The Pull Request

removes old mech icons, adds new ones!
the mech icons in question can be viewed via icon diffs bot, I don't have a full scene image of them, yet.
note that mech construction sprites are not done professionally/have been manually edited by me, and not the actual spriter, so results may vary in quality.
Credit to INFRARED_BARON for 100% of the base sprites.

Why It's Good For The Game

Much nicer, chonkier mech icons.
Adds polar hide specific sprites, but lacks the code required to use these, sadly.

Changelog

🆑 by INFRARED_BARON
image: Changes icons of: Gygax, d-gygax, durand, ripley variants, firefighter statue, phazon & odysseus. Adds new icons for polar hide item.
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[SyncIt21]

Where are the in-game screenshots? Video also is needed for this specific case

[zxaber]

Based and mechpilled.

• Looks like a few sprites didn't get updated correctly. Phazon's animation, among others.
• Paddy's siren light overlay needs to be updated to match where the lights are now (and possibly match the new style). I didn't see it in the changes.
• I can't tell from the icondiff, but Paddy's cockpit is supposed to be open, like the Ripley MK-I.
• You re-added the Firefighter's sprite, which is based but Fikou might yell at you.

[mc-oofert]

best pic i could find from checks because the rest were having a stroke

but by god does slim ripley and bess not sit well with me

[Exester509]

Yeah, slim ripley really doesn't feel right

[EEASAS]

broken durand sprites are... broken they show up as a rotating gygax

[EEASAS]

actually now that i see, a lot of sprites in mecha.dmi are broken

[Admiral-Gigaton]

as others have said, slim ripley does look goofy, but if thats the case...

Yeah, slim ripley really doesn't feel right

best pic i could find from checks because the rest were having a stroke

but by god does slim ripley and bess not sit well with me

i present to you... the TGMC Ripley sprite

(side profiles unavailable, not online and I had to scavenge it from their wiki)

[githubuser4141]

best pic i could find from checks because the rest were having a stroke

but by god does slim ripley and bess not sit well with me

This iconview is bugged for some reason, some of those mechs are probably showing the construction sprites and therefore look a bit bad. Paddy's cage is open, it's a chicken wire mesh that's similar to the hauler mech.

[githubuser4141]

as others have said, slim ripley does look goofy, but if thats the case...

Yeah, slim ripley really doesn't feel right

best pic i could find from checks because the rest were having a stroke
but by god does slim ripley and bess not sit well with me

i present to you... the TGMC Ripley sprite

(side profiles unavailable, not online and I had to scavenge it from their wiki)

So? I've seen the sprite already, imho it it's too demanding to look at, and if you guys don't like slimripley why didn't you SAY SO on discord when sprites were posted? Wallmations one of the spritetainers that approved
should've showed you, or you should've seen it? And oranges was the one who requested it to be styled after the Aliens power loader which isn't a square brick.

[EricZilla]

You guys know the ripley is meant to be the loader from alien right?

[MaineTheMan]

the new sprites are nice (definitely needed new ones) but maybe change the ripley a bit, since it isnt forced to only having 2 clamps, so having a mech with visually identifiable clamps on both arms would be weird if you actually have a drill and plasmacutter

[Jackal-boop]

Wonderful. Now we just nerd to add mechs from Lancer.

[githubuser4141]

Added a screenshot, and support for polar hide attachment.
Not sure if the polar hides work, because they kept breaking when I tested in-game.

[DaCoolBoss]

The non Ripley ones are good, like those a lot. I don't mind the 'thin ripley' but the arms seem a lil off to me, colours on the claws are too high-contrast I think. Paddy's police lights look weird there and I'd prefer them on top of cage. Apart from those they're great.

[AndroidMK2]

My opinion on the matter is that they look uglier than current ones, even less chonky than originals. Can't say more since it's a objective opinion of mine but you know.

[dawsonkeyes]

Where are the Mauler, Marauder, Seraph, and Reticence? The presence of the Death Ripley means surely those four should be resprited too, especially given the Mauler is an actively used nukeops mech like the Dark Gygax

[Sadboysuss]

Where are the Mauler, Marauder, Seraph, and Reticence? The presence of the Death Ripley means surely those four should be resprited too, especially given the Mauler is an actively used nukeops mech like the Dark Gygax

Probably out of scope, it's already a lot of effort in this pr

[Admiral-Gigaton]

Where are the Mauler, Marauder, Seraph, and Reticence? The presence of the Death Ripley means surely those four should be resprited too, especially given the Mauler is an actively used nukeops mech like the Dark Gygax

not death ripley, thats paddy, the security ripley mech

[Iamgoofball]

People can cope, the authentic loader ripley is A++ and I love it

[githubuser4141]

People can cope, the authentic loader ripley is A++ and I love it

Cool, sadly I can't get the armor plate stuff to work on local so I'm assuming it's broken, will just try to ship the sprite changes without code changes.
remove the code improvement label pls.

[Imaginos16]

Had to double-check that IDB was just having a goof and it wasn't an error with the DMI.

Other than that, excellent work! Baron's always been consistently amazing with his sprites and I'm happy to see his work here.

[githubuser4141]

I wonder if it's goobing out because it's expecting frames where there aren't? The new Gygax wreck sprites aren't animated for instance.

[KeRSedChaplain]

my one comment is that I think the durand's visor should be a bit more visible/brighter green, since I always imagined it to be either a glass visor or a singular version of the lights the gygax has

[Livrah]

I think I know why there was no comparison to the old sprites here.

[Nidvex250]

I think I know why there was no comparison to the old sprites here.

probably because they done it already on their discord and we're just downstreamers looking up not bothering to check their discord, lol
It's sprite rework so it'll always be a mixed bag of opinions.
The Ripley mech looking like, well, the exosuit loader that Ripley piloted to beat up a Xeno Queen is A+ though.

[LSommers]

The... shading? The way the colors are laid out on the sprites is odd, especially compared to other stuff from TG (and no I'm not soulposting, look at current crates/lockers as an example). It's not quite as obvious in the screenshots here, but encountering them ingame is jarring to say the least. There's large swathes of color that just seem to simplified and indistinct- which is a shame because honestly I can get behind powersuit-style RIPLEY, except that it's the worst and most easily spotted offender of this particular visual issue.

The claws. Something about them just looks off, even compared just to the rest of the new mech sprites. Maybe making the claws either a single, solid color, or using a more gradual transition from the brighter to darker metal sections?