spriting

Well I have a sprite that was made for project wod. But now I want to edit the sprite abit and only want to change the collor. When I did this I saved all the bmp files and try to compile it again with sprite wiz. Here where the problems comes. It tells me I dont use the same pallete. I...

I think ESF should use 3d sprites instead of the normal 2d sprites. As Logan showed us, its quite easy to do and doesn't cause lag. The sprites look much nicer and you can do many effects to them, like making it look like the energy is flowing around the beam (i.e lightning, swirls, flarey...

hehe me remembers this forum when everything was filled with loads of sprites wich where done by some veterans here. Nway i would like to see people get interested into it again. Just type what tutorial you need and ill do one... this one was requested, pretty basic:

I'm not sure if this is the right board for this, but here goes. I really wanna make my own stuff for ESF, but sprites seem to be the only thing that I could come close to doing, or doing well. My question for you guys is this: Can you just use an ordinary program to make sprites, or do...

OK i read the tutorial, but i'm a little confused on the pallete part. Could you give me an example of what EXACTLY i should be doing.

Just one for now.... I'm descent in photoshop and whatever, i figured i'd give esf spriting a go. -I downloaded 2 files i need and i understand how to use them, but is there a way to make the "black" of a sprite transparent?

Okay. I'm going to be trying my hand at spriting. What size should I have for melee targets? I can't figure it out...