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Published: 2014-06-16 10:47:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 1709; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 17
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Finally done! What you see before you is the culmination of many weeks of work.

Anyway. I've been playing lots of Terraria lately. While playing, I thought 'wouldn't it be great if you could add your own character designs to the game.' I cast my mind out for character designs that would look good in Terraria, and almost immeaditely thought of DreamKeepers by

And then I thought, 'Well, there's many ways to mod Terraria. Maybe I could try this myself.' And so I began.

I searched around for modding tools and settled on using tAPI. Even though it's still in development, it sounds like a well-supported platform for modding Terraria. I've already made a fair bit of progress with the coding of the mod, but it still has some issues, so I won't release it until I have these sorted out and tAPI has had a proper release. In the meantime, enjoy these animations.

The keen-eyed Terraria fans may spot that I've put some of the detail on the half-pixel. See, all ingame pixels are actually 2x2 pixels large in the files, probably so that they can scale and rotate them without losing clarity. I've avoided putting too much detail on the half-pixel, but I put authenticity to the character designs over being true to Terrarias design. Sorry if I disappointed any Terraria purists out there, but that's the decision that I made.

I know whip is a little bit large compared to the others, but I couldn't make him much smaller without losing detail. His tail's also a bit short. I don't know how wide I can make the sprites, so that's how long I've made it. I may be able to lengthen it later on.

You can get the latest version of the mod here: External link .

Here's a trailer that I put together: YouTube Link

And here's something that I've added since I did the trailer: 

If you want to have a look at something else I built in Terraria, go here: Castle Spectrum

Characters ©
Animations ©
Based on animations © Re-Logic

Oh, yeah. The colours were sampled from artwork by so, colours © them too.
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Comments: 30

idonothing1 [2018-12-01 02:38:25 +0000 UTC]

amazing!

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lollppaint [2015-06-04 16:49:30 +0000 UTC]

this is awesome

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solo-ion In reply to lollppaint [2015-06-04 21:43:58 +0000 UTC]

Cheers!  

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Dreamkeepers [2014-08-19 00:22:45 +0000 UTC]

How is this so awesome?  Love these!  8 D

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solo-ion In reply to Dreamkeepers [2014-08-19 09:17:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much.

I hope to be able to show these in action soon. I've been spending most of my time on this lately programming Whip's Artificial Intelligence. So far, I have the 'artificial' part right.

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lokion123 [2014-07-19 02:33:29 +0000 UTC]

planning on making them for starbound too?

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solo-ion In reply to lokion123 [2014-07-20 09:02:14 +0000 UTC]

I actually haven't got Starbound, but I might one day. If I do get it, I would want to know how easy it is to mod first.

I guess that the character designs in Starbound might be easier to adapt to DK style than the Terrarian sprites were.

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Legoboy186 [2014-07-03 14:02:33 +0000 UTC]

Are you planning on making jumping animations?

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solo-ion In reply to Legoboy186 [2014-07-03 21:46:42 +0000 UTC]

I already have the jump sprites done, but they are just still frames, so I didn't see the need to include them here.

I think I also need to go back and adjust the jump frames anyway. The legs don't look quite right.

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DanWithTheHat [2014-06-25 02:01:34 +0000 UTC]

Woah, these are amazing sprites! It would really be cool to see these guys in game once you work through the bugs.

The Namah one is my favorite. Her expression is perfect. ^^

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solo-ion In reply to DanWithTheHat [2014-06-26 09:37:42 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like them. Namah is something else, isn't she?

I could post some screenshots, but I want to get those graphical issues sorted first. I'm also waiting for a proper 1.0 version of tAPI to be released.

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ezioauditore97 [2014-06-22 23:55:12 +0000 UTC]

You did fantastic on Whip in particular.

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solo-ion In reply to ezioauditore97 [2014-06-24 10:11:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much. I actually thought Whip's legs could be better in his run cycle could do with some more work. I am my own worst critic, I guess.

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ezioauditore97 In reply to solo-ion [2014-06-24 16:03:51 +0000 UTC]

Nah,you did superb!

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Salinc [2014-06-17 12:23:35 +0000 UTC]

It's cool! A long, but good job done by you) Interesting to see what happens, if you add sprites in Terraria))
There remained only the skin to Minecraft to make x)

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solo-ion In reply to Salinc [2014-06-18 10:18:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. They seem to work well, judging by the early version of the mod. But I've reached a point where I can't do all that much more until I get a response from the developers of tAPI about something that I'm stuck on.

Someone has already made a Mace Minecraft skin, there was something about it in journal awhile back, I think. I forgot where it was exactly.

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Salinc In reply to solo-ion [2014-06-18 15:55:54 +0000 UTC]

I found a link (well, that i not clean my message history) to the skin of Mace.
Here it is: www.minecraftskins.com/skin/45…
And Yes, on the other skins will be found by tag "dreamkeepers"))

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DanWithTheHat In reply to Salinc [2014-06-25 02:14:45 +0000 UTC]

I know someone made a really good Namah Minecraft skin as well but I can't seem to find the link atm...

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KingDarkLord [2014-06-17 06:35:23 +0000 UTC]

Cool.

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A-Fox-Of-Fiction [2014-06-16 13:45:38 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! What do you plan to do with them?

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solo-ion In reply to A-Fox-Of-Fiction [2014-06-16 22:04:50 +0000 UTC]

I'm working on a mod that lets you use these as vanity items while playing the PC version of Terraria.

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A-Fox-Of-Fiction In reply to solo-ion [2014-06-16 22:09:47 +0000 UTC]

Ah, what is Terraria anyways?

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solo-ion In reply to A-Fox-Of-Fiction [2014-06-17 04:30:47 +0000 UTC]

Hmmmm... a massive sandbox game.

Link
Link

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A-Fox-Of-Fiction In reply to solo-ion [2014-06-17 16:36:58 +0000 UTC]

I see.

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Watch-it1337 [2014-06-16 12:24:55 +0000 UTC]

Yeah these would look great in Terraria

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Emanicas [2014-06-16 12:03:15 +0000 UTC]

They look like mechs walking

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solo-ion In reply to Emanicas [2014-06-16 22:01:24 +0000 UTC]

Come to think of it, they do look kind of mechanical. I guess that's just the style of animation that I based them on.

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dgcdvaras [2014-06-16 11:48:30 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is great!
I would like to use one of those as my profile avatar if you don't mind.

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solo-ion In reply to dgcdvaras [2014-06-16 21:59:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

Feel free to make an avatar. I won't say no.

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dgcdvaras In reply to solo-ion [2014-06-16 22:13:30 +0000 UTC]

Great!
Thank you!

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