Help me recolor a monster

[K_Doom]

I need to recolor these new Mauler Demon sprites I made. The problem is that as much as I paint in Gimp, Photoshop, CorelDraw, the difference in tones between the top and bottom is obvious lol

I want to make it completely red like the top, but I haven't found a way to do that yet. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

                                                                                              

                                                                           

                                                                       

Edited March 1, 2022 by K_Doom
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[Rifleman]

You could try to remap the colours in Slade, with a little bit of tinkering you could get close. Maybe making it grayscale before that could help too? I think I remember some old thread and someone said they do it.

Edited March 1, 2022 by Rifleman

[Nootrac4571]

I had a little tinker in Slade, came up with a remap that's very close:

 

 

"16:21=179:182", "22:33=183:188", "34:36=43:44", "37:38=190:190", "39:47=47:47"

 

Here's the exact colour ramps of both sprites, if you want to go mad and make it perfect:

 

 

 

 

Edit: Ok. here's a pretty much perfect colour remap, because I enjoy obsessing over unimportant details:

 

"16:17=179:179", "18:18=180:180", "19:20=181:181", "21:21=182:182", "22:23=183:183", "24:25=184:184", "26:27=185:185", "28:29=186:186", "30:31=187:187", "32:33=188:188", "34:35=189:189", "36:36=44:44", "37:38=45:45", "39:47=47:47"

Edited March 1, 2022 by Nootrac4571

[horselessheadsman]

Finalizer already did leaping sprites for the Mauler Demon.

 

(preparing to leap)

 

(leaping)

[K_Doom]

8 hours ago, Rifleman said:

You could try to remap the colours in Slade, with a little bit of tinkering you could get close. Maybe making it grayscale before that could help too? I think I remember some old thread and someone said they do it.

 

@Rifleman I tried with Slade but I didn't have the patience to correctly decipher the original and replacement colors. Thanks for showing me the right palettes. :')

 

6 hours ago, Nootrac4571 said:

I had a little tinker in Slade, came up with a remap that's very close:

 

 

"16:21=179:182", "22:33=183:188", "34:36=43:44", "37:38=190:190", "39:47=47:47"

 

Here's the exact colour ramps of both sprites, if you want to go mad and make it perfect:

 

 

 

 

Edit: Ok. here's a pretty much perfect colour remap, because I enjoy obsessing over unimportant details:

 

"16:17=179:179", "18:18=180:180", "19:20=181:181", "21:21=182:182", "22:23=183:183", "24:25=184:184", "26:27=185:185", "28:29=186:186", "30:31=187:187", "32:33=188:188", "34:35=189:189", "36:36=44:44", "37:38=45:45", "39:47=47:47"

 

@Nootrac4571 Wow, impressive how you master this tool. I feel like a neanderthal trying to find the right colors. This will be very useful in the future, thanks.

 

1 hour ago, horselessheadsman said:

Finalizer already did leaping sprites for the Mauler Demon.

 

(preparing to leap)

 

(leaping)

 

@horselessheadsman 

That ends all my long work of recoloring pixel by pixel like I was doing yesterday haha
ᴵ ˢᵖᵉⁿᵗ ᵠᵘᶦᵗᵉ ᵃ ᵇᶦᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗᶦᵐᵉ ʸᵉˢᵗᵉʳᵈᵃʸ ʳᵉᶜᵒˡᵒʳᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰᶦˢ ˡᶦᵗᵗˡᵉ ᵍᵘʸ ᵐᵃⁿᵘᵃˡˡʸ 👇
               

 

Thx!

[Nikku4211]

What source port is this for, if any?

 

If a ZDoom derivative, you don't need to provide new graphics, just use Decorate to define a new enemy that has a Translation property set to the appropriate colour ranges like you did in SLADE.

[K_Doom]

7 minutes ago, Nikku4211 said:

What source port is this for, if any?

 

If a ZDoom derivative, you don't need to provide new graphics, just use Decorate to define a new enemy that has a Translation property set to the appropriate colour ranges like you did in SLADE.

I know this property, but as I still haven't learned to correctly identify the original colors and the substitutes, I didn't want to try, preferring to recolor. But one is also a good option.

[gwain]

kek I should make a vanilla version of this if it's zonly

 

maybe replace arch-vile

 

 

Edited March 2, 2022 by gwain

[K_Doom]

1 hour ago, gwain said:

kek I should make a vanilla version of this if it's zonly

 

maybe replace arch-vile

 

 

I'm interested to see heh