Category Archives: News & Updates

Several folks have reached out since the relaunch observing that there were some oddities with colors on a number of items. THANK YOU to those people!! After getting some more details and digging into it, I realized that the original import process from Flash to SVG files completely mistreated the “details” layer. Sometimes an item needed a static colored area that can’t be changed, like the whites of the eyes, white teeth in Mouth sets, or wheels on cars. Other times I they’d have a semi-transparent overlay to create highlighted or shadowed areas.

The import ignored all that and made them all solid, which had … less than desirable results.

I’ve pushed a bunch of fixes, though, so hopefully things should look more like you’d expect. Here’s one before image of a fantasy armor top:

You can see black areas between the middle part, on the outer edges under the armpits, and the stripes along the stomach outer edges. You might think that looks fine, and it probably does, but it’s not how it looked in the original Flash version. After the fix, here’s that same item:

Here you can see the same areas are semi-transparent overlays instead of solid blacks, allowing the undercolor to show through. It’s a much more dynamic and nuanced effect and what I intended with the original.

For the detail-oriented among you (which I, clearly, am not or I’d have noticed this before), here’s the complete updated set list:

All Right-side handheld items, gloves, feet, and shoulders were also mirrored
to their Left-side counterparts, bringing the effective total to 372 items
fixed.

Thanks again to the HeroMachiners kind enough to take the time to point out the issues, much appreciated. I am far from perfect and absolutely would have missed all of this if not for your attention and care.

Mirror Mode for Left/Right Slots

The biggest addition today is Mirror mode, available in all Left/Right slot pairs — Feet, Gloves, Hands, Items, and Shoulders. When the Mirror checkbox is enabled, equipping an item on one side automatically equips the matching item on the opposite side with the same colors and pattern. Transforms are mirrored too — horizontal position and rotation are flipped so both sides stay visually symmetric as you adjust. This should save a lot of time when building symmetrical characters.

Guest Artist Items: Robotic Noses

We have our first guest artist contribution! Seven robotic nose designs have been added to both the Male and Female Standard nose sets. These mechanical and cybernetic nose options are great for sci-fi and robot characters.

Bug Fix: Halftone Patterns Restored

The PatternsHalftones set was discovered to have corrupted data (it was showing circuitry patterns instead of halftones). This has been rebuilt from the original source files and is working correctly again.