The problem with malice way is u have different looks, better to do it in the engine itself, just my view.

No no autoway. I wrote a simple script that handles it for me. Simple sayed it makes scrshots while animating with fixed cam view.

From my shitty handy
Greets

Edit
Ill make a project thread soon showing that stuff and the project in detail, but too much real work those days to do. Hunting dollars like a * ...sadly

^-- In this case(Which is fully true), the script can both capture the screen shots and glue them into a sprite sheet(strip) with bmap_create and bmap_blit.

http://www.conitec.net/beta/abmap_create.htm
http://www.conitec.net/beta/bmap_blit.htm

Again alpha can be handled at runtime with a color key or maybe there is an engine bmap function for replacing a color on the strip with a 32 bit alpha before saving it out.

Instead of doing something useful, I spend a few minutes hours (definitely hours) to implement Normal mapping for the tiles in Dungeon Deities.
Of course, the normal map shown here is not a great fit for the actual image, but it worked great for testing.

It's a neat effect!

Cool! nice to see some progress ^^

When I did it I was using MED exclusively, and hadn't learned any other 3D software ... that would make it a lot easier!

@Error014 - Nice! Go to see your working it more.
@rayp - Sweet! You over came the limits and have a window to make something really great... Eyes on this!
@Dooley - Green Light! Really cool.. There is a momentum here again.

An attempt to use autodesk character tool and my bad skills to make a character.

The purple 'dress' will end up being more of a 'Deaths robe', the 3ds max materiel hasn't made it into the engine yet.

The character has a real size but, will end up being squished scaled to have the cartoon n64 kind of look.
Legs, feet and arms are left open for large comical gloves and boots.
Yes, I'm bad at this and only the autodesk cheat tool makes it look ok..




Edit - updated shoot take from 3dsmax not engine

Edit/Update2


??? Are the image size to large for others?

Edit update - Miles to go...But getting there.


And a video - Adjust the timing in the youTube controls it's a bit quick
https://youtu.be/12MEdnNlaSY

good stuff and good to see you beeing creative again and in action

@Malice, that final image is getting along good.

@Realspawn - Thank you - you know I hate the content creation stuff...So Slow so hard to do, so very much to learn and know.

@Reconnoiter- Thanks also - I just keep going. It's fine in max for now, but no way I can put it in the engine as is.. Maps, and face counts and all that.. We'll see how it's comes in the next few days. Time permitting..