FS Eyes (READ ME IF YOU MESS WITH THEM)

[picano]

Writing up this post because... a lot of Kirby / Ness / Lucas / (any "flat" eyed charact) textures fail hard when it comes to FS eyes. Wanna know why? FS eyes work in a very screwy way.

For each of these characters, you have a set of 4 eyes for normal and FS use. The normal eye textures include both the the eye and face while the FS eyes only show the yellow eye, everything else is transparent.

So, FS eyes... recolor and done, right? WRONG. Well --- wrong if you modified the surrounding face or shape of the eye at all. You would imagine that leaving the surroundings or copying the new face segments into the FS eyes would work; well, unfortunately it doesn't.

Steps to proper FS eyes for flat eyed characters.
1) Create normal eyes.
2) Copy normal eye image into FS eye image.
3) Recolor eyes.
4) Delete surroundings (leaving transparency).

If you have done this right, you should be able to use a color picker to display the deleted colors.



Normal eye on left, FS eye on right --- FS eye was color picked near the top left --- revealing a FULLY TRANSPARENT tan color. What happens when you don't do this properly? The mismatched colors turn up bright white (or black depending on color values).

Example of failure (sorry to creator... first image I found):

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...oh.
thanks XD

[Register]

I could've sworn it had something to do with the Alpha layer? I always tamper with the Alpha layer and get my FS eyes to work that way.

[picano]

Well, alpha layer is transparency, no? --- Either way, just want people to thoroughly test their creations before releasing them!

This post comes from testing multiple Kirbys from other people and complaining about how their eyes don't work properly. So... when I made my recent Bob-omb Kirby / Travis Touchdown Lucas... just ended up writing what worked out for me.

[pako1034]

Oh, crap I didn't notice that

But thanks for the guide

[Gazoinks]

Is Toon Link one of the characters that this applies to?

[gobologna]

I tried what you said. It didn't work for me.

[Jack H.]

Do I ever stop learning? XD

[stuff2o]

I got pitch-black faces! DX

[SSBBMAN]

Major Noob = WTF do you mean???

...as in, I want to fix SO many Kirbies I've made! I need it in smaller, more bite-size words.


Edit: after more decent thought, I realized how to do this, thanks!