Rejected - Inactive Improve where the ground is during team preview

[DrPumpkinz]

It would make team preview look much cleaner if it looked like the Pokemon were all on the same plane.

Here's what it looks like currently:

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Here's what it could look like:

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And here's what it could look like with airborne Pokemon because I later realized that would probably be helpful to show:

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Basically, have a point for each Pokemon to mark where the ground is, place it below their center of gravity, and align that point to that Pokemon's gender sign (I used up and to the left).

 

[DrPumpkinz]

I think I've come up with a way to do this without changing the code at all.

sample front sprites

sample back sprites

(green backgrounds have been added for clarity)

This idea was inspired by Conkeldurr's gen 5 sprite, which already employs this technique.

Basically, by increasing the dimensions of the sprites and offsetting the position of the Pokemon within the sprite, it's possible to get them all to align naturally. Electrode was used as a reference because it's just a ball, so its center of gravity was already directly in the middle of the sprite.

I asked a friend of mine to mod in these altered sprites to see how they'd look, and while they got a little distorted (we think it's because they're still using the dimensions of the current sprites) you can get an idea of what this will look like.

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No idea what happened with Eggy.