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Published: 2013-11-04 13:55:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 35380; Favourites: 797; Downloads: 601
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Since I get repeatedly asked about how I make pony sprites, I created this simple step-by-step tutorial for making a basic trotting sprite.
This is the first time I made a tutorial and I may not be very good at explaining things, but I still hope that you will find this useful.
Edit: The forum which contains the templates (as mentioned in this tutorial) is currently down. Please try this link instead: www.mediafire.com/file/le2j2ig…
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Thanks. I'm glad to hear it was helpfuk.
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I have a question. how the bodies of the ponies are made?, for example, that of a stallion pony Pegasus. How is would make the body?
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I'm not quite sure what you mean. The body is from a template that can be downloaded and used freely for non-commercial purposes. You can find them for example in 's gallery.
If you want to make the body completely yourself, well, you could trace it from show vectors or just do it by eye.
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wo kann man das dann downloaden also dieses pony dings..?
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Das Program selbst, meinst du? Das findest du hier: www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/r…
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ok ich habs gedownloaded aber wie macht man dann seine eigenen ponys?
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Tja, wenn du die Grafiken bereits fertig hast, gibt es prinzipiell zwei Möglichkeiten: Entweder, du benutzt den im Programm enthaltenen Editor, um ein komplett neues Pony zu erstellen, oder aber du gehst in den Programmordner, dort in den "Ponies" Ordner, machst eine Kopie eines der dort bereits enthaltenen Ponies und dort kannst du dann die Grafiken durch deine ersetzen, das pony.ini bearbeiten und so weiter. Oder eine Mischung aus beidem: Mache eine Kopie eines anderen Ponys und ändere es dann im Editor.
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Wie heißt der ordner mit eem editor denn?
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Der Editor ist Teil des Programms. Wenn du es startest, siehst du direkt unter den Ponys verschiedene Knöpfe. Einer von denen startet den Pony Editor. In diesem kannst du dir nicht nur die anderen Ponys ansehen und editieren, sondern auch über den "Create NEW Pony" Knopf dein eigenes erstellen.
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iwie kann ichs nicht öffnen da steht dann iwas mit programm reagiert nicht und dann online eine lösung ssuchen und programm schließen
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Puh, da kann ich dir nicht wirklich helfen, da ich ja nicht direkt an dem Programm arbeite, sondern nur Ponies dafür mache.
Aus der Readme geht hervor, dass man zum Starten des Programms .NET framework 4 braucht, was bei neueren Windows-Versionen zwar schon dabei sein sollte, aber vielleicht hapert es ja daran. Ist jetzt aber nur geraten. Falls es daran liegt, kannst du es nachträglich hier runterladen und installieren: www.microsoft.com/de-de/downlo…
Und wenn das nicht klappt, könntest du noch versuchen, direkt mit unserem Programmierer RoosterDragon zu sprechen, der natürlich besser Bescheid weiß. Das dann zwar nur auf englisch, aber gewöhnlich kannst du ihn hier antreffen: www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/r…
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thanks for this, I had to find the 16 image base somewere, because anonycat blocked me and so have desktop ponies (no clue why) so this will be great help.
again, thanks.
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Where did you get the trot base from?
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... Really? I mentioned it right at the beginning of the tutorial.
But you can also find it in 's gallery.
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No I meant the animated one, not frame by frame...
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I don't know if a pre-animated template even exists, but I guess you could just animate one yourself.
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hello! i was just wondering if you knew of a faster way to recolour the base without going over it with the pencil tool frame by frame. I've tried using "add and replace" but it dosn't seem to get the colour quite right, leaving it still tinted grey. do you know any other methods i could use? or maybe a way to improve the add and replace tool?
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Well, since I have no idea what program you use, I can't really comment on that. What I do is using a simple color replacer tool. Most image editing programs I'm aware of have that. Even good old Windows Paint.
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oh, sorry, i guess i forgot to mention that i use photoshop. i did recently find out what i was doing wrong,but thanks anyway
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Uh, how do you make the idle animations? Do you think you could make a tutorial for that one, too?
I'm ultimately confused on how to do so.
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Idle animations basically follow the same steps. A basic idle animation is usually even easier than a trot since you don't have to synch the mane or possible clothes to the moving body. Honestly, I don't even know what I could possibly say in an idle tutorial that I didn't already cover in this one.
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can u make a pony 4 me plz? I cant get it right >.<
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The website won't open ;A;
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Well, it works for me, even though you are not the only one who mentioned having trouble accessing the site. Sadly, I can't help you much there, but you could try using a proxy.
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Those only give me viruses. Oh well. ;A;
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Sorry to hear that.
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I found a different base, though :3
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Ah, that's good.
also has some of the basic templates in his gallery, if you still need them.
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It says
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to desktopponies.bugs3.com
Access a cached copy of desktopponies.bugs3.com
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Thank you so much! I've been searching everywhere for a tutorial on how to get their frickin' hair to bounce!
lol
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Well, it's a tutorial. That's what it's there for.
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I'm at the website, can you explain everything I need to know so that I won't get confused?
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I thought it was pretty self-explanatory, but I can try. What do you have problems with?
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Um, I'm new to desktop ponies so, can you explain to me how to use the website
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You just use it like you'd use any other website. I can't go into more detail unless you're more specific about the problem you have.
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but, can i made this with GIMP?, I tryed but doesnt work
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I use Gimp. And yes, it can be done with Gimp, since it has multiple layers, and all of the other things described above. The only thing that gimp can't do is animate it.
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Actually, you can animate with Gimp.
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Really? I didn't know that. Now I feel a little silly. How?
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It's actually pretty simple. When extracting the file, just change the title from .png to .gif. It's easy from there. ^^
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but, does that animate it by the layers?
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Yes. You just click 'disposal', 'replace', then check the box that says 'use disposal'.
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Thanks! It worked, see for yourself: vinyl-beat.deviantart.com/art/…
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