is making a luffy

can you tell us who

@KahJinn I'm very sorry for the late response. 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ Luffy's unfortunately discontinued altogether at this point... There's a couple Luffy projects that are in progress from others though, as far as I know. Very sorry again, haven't been as attentive with Steam outside games these days-

@Zyphyris, please.. can we get a Luffy update. I'm begging

what luffy os that

@KahJinn Unfortunately stuck in limbo. :/ Haven't worked on it in months due to a mix of life and creative burnout. I might just release an unfinished version in the future if nothing comes up, depending on how things go.

@Zyphyris, where is that Luffy? Can we get an update on that?

Emergency Food

felt, would like to see a pre-ts chopps too at some point 😔

i want that chopper but fighter :c

SO HIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

SO HIGH

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER

@CloudStrifeHero dang, that sucks. :/ i can see their perspective but i'm not so big on dismissive attitudes like that either. especially for a dream platform like this.

also that's a good way to think about it haha. i always just had them as concepts 'cause i never had a way to make them anything more than that. i also just like writing my ideas down lol.

glad to hear though, i'll definitely try to reach out if i ever do end up making him. ^^

@Zyphris Never been a moveset document, roster list maker myself. I have essentially always just started doing the things I wanted to do instead of letting them be a concept, but eitherways it's nice to hear people thinking similarly. Had some unpleasant experiences before with people who easily dismissed things just because they used stuff from official sources. Rambling aside if you do decide to make Chopper a fighter too then I will definitely check it out. o/

@CloudStrifeHero same here! i'm pretty much here just to try making my old smash/platform fighter concepts into reality. used to make a ton of moveset docs and rosters/stage lists for series-specific platform fighter ideas. so for characters specifically i don't mind starting off with existing sprites since that makes the process a lot less intimidating and more efficient for me. as long as it works with the existing style i think it's fine.

also i think i might not have an issue with horn point since the attack in the sprite sheet is exactly how i imagined chopper's side special would go. the thought of having to add them for every extra chopper animation makes die on the inside a little though haha.

@Zyphris Personally as long as the art style works I don't really mind if me or someone else relies on already existing assets and makes more to it. Did so with my Guilmon character here too. For some (especially for me who has like a bunch of other random projects) it saves a lot of time. That being said yeah I can see the antlers being an issue, mostly in Horn Point though.

@CloudStrifeHero Ooh, that sounds interesting. I'd probably attempt to do the customs myself so I can get more animation/spriting practice, but I'm intrigued to see how they handled things.

Also yeah, that's just the nature of using only pre-existing sprites for this game unfortunately haha. I think for Chopper in particular though, I'm just glad the sheet already has animations that work almost perfectly with 3 of the specials I had in mind. I'm fine with attempting animations for the non-specials/strongs since they'd all use his normal form so implementing most of the character's moveset shouldn't be too bad. (Although spriting/animating the antlers scares me @_@).

Talking about this more really does make me want to try doing Chopper after Luffy now though... Would definitely be a shorter project since I wouldn't have to modify the original sprites as much, and animation (aside from the antlers) shouldn't be too bad for Chopper's normal attacks.

@Zyphris Yeah...Despite the Wonderswan ones having a lot to work with depending on how you would want to go about it, it would most likely need extras. I would say there is the sheet from Team One Piece OS, but besides a few instances that mostly expans the Gigant Battle sprites. The Wonderswan ones did get a few new attacks too and there was an attempt by them to convert some Heavy Points animations from Gigant Battle, but it's still noticable on the shading that there origin was from somewhere else so it would need more adjustments. (I don't really know where or how I could show what I mean besides checking out their site itself if you can find it there.)

@CloudStrifeHero Mm, that's true. I guess I'm just worried about how long the transition animation would have to play out. 🤔Although I think that transition into the other forms makes it perfect for charging moves like a special or strong attack, so it'd work pretty well there thinking about it again.

Also you reminded me. If I do end up making a Chopper with the Wonderswan sprites as a base, that means I'd need to do custom animations for Chopper's other points and not just his normal form too. ._.

@Zyphris About the Rumble Ball thing, yeah I dropped it in favour of gameplay too as do a lot of games actually. Or if not fully then partially they do. As for the transition into the forms, since you would be going with the Wonderswan sprites you should be good since those do have atleast animations for going from one to the other so it won't be that sudden. (Unlike the Pre-Timeskip Gigant Battle ones where he just snaps into it.) Otherwise I would go with something on the faster end tbh, he was shown to be able to switch very quickly in the series itself as well as games tend to handle it in a faster fashion too.

y'know I randomly just got an idea. what if Chopper has a normal set of aerials, but then he also has separate strong aerials (like Wrastor) where he transforms into one of his points for them? 🤔

@CloudStrifeHero Yeah the moveset could definitely be tricky to pull off in some aspects. For me, my biggest concern is making sure certain attacks that involve Chopper's other points don't come out too sudden. I was thinking of Chopper transforming into Heavy Point and doing a volleyball spike for the forward aerial, but I'm wondering how to pull that off without the startup being too slow or too sudden. I think it can be done though.

As for the rumble balls though, I think that's one of the instances where you have to drop canon in favor of gameplay. A rumble ball mechanic would be interesting though-

Also really cool to hear you did the Crusade/SSF2 mods for him! I think I might've come across them while I was looking up vids for reference.

@Zyphris Don't worry about it. XD I'm happy that this exists anyways and looking forward to whatever you make next.
Also yeah I know the Wonderswan sprites are very nice, (minus the eyes in most cases, but you did edit those so that part is taken care of) like them a lot too. Though in terms of moveset he is a bit tricky to pull off in a Smash/Rivals setting from what I have experienced. (Made him playable on 4 occasions. Twice in Crusade and SSF2 due to Pre and Post-Timeskip variants.) Since it is very easy to make him too generic by the nature of how it is or some creative liberties have to be taken with how the Rumble Ball forms work in Pre-Timeskip's case.

so high

@CloudStrifeHero Aw, sorry to disappoint haha. If it helps I am working on a Luffy, although I'm not entirely sure if I'll do another character after that since I wanna stick to stage making. I'm very tempted to try Chopper after making this buddy though, since he already has a nice sprite sheet that almost fits well with Rivals. Made a moveset concept for him before as well so it'd be cool to bring that to life.

At first glance when I was browsing I thought it was a fighter but even as a buddy I'll take it of course. He is my favourite character afterall. Though I wish the fighter that exists of him out there wasn't so lackluster.

can we get much higher

dont say it......

happy to hear, hopefully it does end up being fun for you! i'll try my best. 🙏

@Zyphyris oh cool I have been waiting for a fun new luffy to try can't wait to try it out

@ChickenSoup it's a mod I'm working on! just decided to sneak it in there as a preview haha

what luffy mod is that

Yes

@404_coffee.exe look at him go!

appreciate it! will do.

This is really well made. Keep up the great work!

Look at the little fella!

can we get much higher?

is the one piece real?

yeah, it's to be expected with the current meme unfortunately. saw the same thing happen with the whitebeard submission as well. :/

shame this is what they're associated with now.

all the comments saying the one piece is real or can we get much higher :|

THE ONE PIECE IS REAL

can we get much higher?
oh oh oh, oh oh oh

@Watermelon it's a mod I'm working on hehe, thought I'd sneak it in

Where is the Luffy mod from in the screenshots?

Can we get much higher?

Can we get much higher?

LET'S GO

YEAH ONE PIECE I LOVE ONE PIECE FUCK YEAH

you couldn't hold it in 😭