Shrinking & growing effects

[Neslug]

I was wondering, what are we going to do about the shrinking and growing effects caused by the two Mushroom items? The options we have are pretty much these:

1. Higher-resolution versions of all character sprites
2. Resizing effect handled by the game engine
3. Ditch the Super and Poison Mushroom

[Gold]

I'm assuming we will be going with resizing.

[Neslug]

Yeah that's what I thought, just wanted to make a thread so everyone can have their say.

[GrooveMan.exe]

Strangely, this was not the thread content I was expecting.

...I have no idea what I was expecting.

[AuraPigOnStilts]

It would be too much to have high resolution for ALL characters and all poses, and it seems a waste to ditch them

[Sengir]

Hey there, Tyvon

[AuraPigOnStilts]

so, youre suggesting a quick recolour, then they appear without shading then appear with it?

this is what you uploaded:

[Neslug]

No, that was just an illustration of how to make hi-res sprites.

[AuraPigOnStilts]

Oh. that makes sense now.

But if we did hi-res every pose for every character, that would take forever. Especially as you would need the poison mushroom too.

[Neslug]

The normal graphics could easily be downscaled without looking too poor. It's the upscaling that would be the problem (or more like could have been, judging by the poll).

[AuraPigOnStilts]

Mmm. I dont think anybody really desperately wants to have hi-res anyway

[Tonberry2k]

I honestly hadn't thought of this and I don't know why. It seems like a huge headache though. I'd be fine with just magnifying/shrinking them. It'd give it a pixelated look and wouldn't require us to triple our efforts.

[Shadowth117]

It really will be more trouble than its worth redrawing them. Lets just keep it simple and stick with ingame resizing.

[D2S-Speed]

I agree with resizing them. It would take much more work to make re-sprite them over.

[Jdaster64]

Either #2 or #3. I see no reason to resprite everything three times, disregarding possible stacking (e.g. Tiny Brawl + Poison Mushroom)