Portraits

[Feline Witch]

What I want to do in my game, is to create portraits for my characters.

 

A hand-drawn anime portrait, you know? I want a full body one on their stats screen, and a mugshot just to be next to their names on the menus. If you play RPGs, you will now what I mean.

 

What I also want to do is to put the mugshots in the battles, next to the character's health. And this is an idea I nicked from Tales of Symphonia, and added too. I want the portrait to change during the battle, so there is a neutral face when the character is not doing anything, an angry one for when they attack, a sad/pained one for when they get hurt, a concentrating one for when they are charging up a spell, and knocked out one for when they get knocked out, and a happy one for a victory.

 

Do you think this is possible?

[zandoriastudios]

Sounds pretty simple. In MMF, you would use an action object (sprite) with some custom animations and then just switch which animation is playing based on the events you described.