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Tutorial: How to Expand Shimeji Animations.

Huge File warning.. XD
Ok so just a few days ago I decided to work on my own Shimeji.. and because I'll directly started playing with the xml files right at the beginning I thought I'd share my knowledge in expanding Shimeji animations!

I really appreciate feedback on this. I would like to know if it's understandable and if it worked for you.. I hope you are not scared by the huge amount of text.xD

If I get positive feedback I may consider making another one concerning adding fully custom animations.. but that's a bit more complex and involves editing both the actions.xml and the behaviors.xml...

Hope you like it~~ Comments?

EDIT: [link] <---I got the English Shimeji from here^^ sorry that I hadn't mentioned it before.. I forgot many people have the japanese version..

EDIT2: IMPORTANT!! Just a little additional advise:
If you create multiple Shimeji in the img folder of such an xml edited Shimeji you have to make sure all of the pictures specified in the xml file are present or it won't start up because it can't find the pictures... so you also can't just take a Shimeji image folder from someone else and throw it into your img folder.. because it's highly likely that there will be missing files.. Hope I explained it somewhat understandable.. ^_^;
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~darcykalaw Apr 14, 2013  Student General Artist
btw changing the image anchor values does indeed enable you to make custom shimeji sizes
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~darcykalaw Apr 14, 2013  Student General Artist
wowowowow, this is exactly what i dreamt for.

i made 400x400 picx of my oc just for this and when i found out that only the 128x128 part would show since the anchor was set to that. then i tried to resize it to 128 px but then it got way too pixelated and my whole world crumbled, all that effort for nothing.

then i saw this. omgomgomgomg! thank you so much!
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~Tenyume-Kasumi Apr 5, 2013
This is great and understandable! Hope I get to try it out soon.
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*ChibiEdo Apr 5, 2013
Thanks! Have fun~
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~stopthinkmove Mar 17, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
For some reason the English Shimeji never works properly on my computer, would you happen to know why? When I try to run the shimeji.exe file the shimejis never appear, the same goes for the jar files. The only way i've gotten them to actually work is by using the bat file but that also brings up a command box. And I never have this problem with Japanese Shimejis.
I can't really edit the xml files if they're all in japanese. :/
Help?
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~KarmyGray Apr 22, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I'm not sure if this'll help, but.... the colors and order in the xml files is the same for both japanese and english shimeji, so you can open the xml files for a jp shimeji and the ones for an eng one, compare them and edit them like that.(well you probably solved this by now anyways...)
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~stopthinkmove Apr 30, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
yeah I thought of that but I'll probably mess up the kanji and it won't work :/
Thanks though!
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~OtakuCraziRandomnez Feb 5, 2013  Hobbyist
Oh my god I love you. I'm going to make my own Shimeji soon, and I had been hoping to find some way to make custom animations~
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*ChibiEdo Feb 6, 2013
aw glad you like this : D It's only expanding existing animations though, completely custom animations are a bit more complicated.
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~OtakuCraziRandomnez Feb 6, 2013  Hobbyist
Yes, I am aware. But this helps a lot. oAo
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