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Hmmmm....

I want to make a goal point question sphere, but make it look like a yellow Yoshi egg. How would I do that? And what programs do I need?
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HELL ON EARTH... HELP US!!!
Did you see the SP number above the question sphere in the add sprites window? Click on the red poisonus mushroom. Figure out the rest.
BTW, you need Lunar Magic.
I don't get it ...
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Open your hack in Lunar Magic and click the Super (red) mushroom on the tool bar to extract the graphics (make sure that "Use Joined GFX Files" is selected under Options on the menu bar). This should create a folder called "Graphics" in the same folder as your hack. Inside the folder there should be a BIN file called AllGFX (if there isn't make sure that "Use Joined GFX Files" is selected and extract the GFX again). They're two ways of doing the following part. I'm posting the hard way because it works for absolutely any graphics in your hack and might be helpful to you later on.


--Easy Way (can only be used to edit some graphics in your hack)--

Go to a level in your hack that has the goal point question sphere in it and click the ? block on the tool bar that only has to top left quarter lit up (A.K.A. the 8x8 Graphics Editor) press down until you get to the last page. You should see the Egg graphics (in the top left) and the goal point question sphere graphics (near the middle). All you have to do now is right-click the egg graphic tiles and left click there you want to put them. Press F9 and save the GFX before closing the 8x8 tile editor. If this worked skip the next part of my post.

--Hard Way (but can be used to edit any graphics in your hack)--

You will need YY-CHR or Tile Layer Pro (graphic editing programs) which can be downloaded from the tools section of the site. I suggest Tile Layer Pro because it is what I use and in the next part of my post I will be referring to Tile Layer Pro.

Open Tile Layer Pro and go to the folder called "Graphics". Open AllGFX and you should get a bunch of weird green lines. In the menu bar go to View > Format > SNES.

The graphics should now appear properly and now all you have to do if find the graphics and change them. In case you need help with this too I have taken screenshots of where the graphics are located and what you have to do to change them.



1. Locate the egg graphics


2. Drag the graphics to the tile arranger


3. Locate the goal point question sphere graphics


4. Drag the graphics from the tile arranger to where the goal point question sphere is.

5. Go to "Save As" under File on the menu bar and double click AllGFX. It should ask you if you are sure you want to save, click yes.


--Final Steps (for both the easy and hard way)--
After you do either of those open your hack and click the 1up (green) mushroom on the tool bar. Unfortunately all of that only fufills half of your request. It might not be such a great idea to make it yellow because the goal point question sphere's palette is shared by other sprites. If you still want to make it yellow change these colours in the palette editor.



I think that there might be a way to work around that although unfortunately I don't really know how.

Hopefully that helps you.
That wasn't a really good reply.

If you want to be minimalistic, you can use just Lunar Magic.
If you want to do it quick, you will need YY-CHR.

The Goal Question Mark Sphere has the letters SP4=05 at the top. What does this mean? It means the sphere uses the sprite graphics tileset 05. This is a simple case of ExGFX. Extract all your ROM graphics (red mushroom; not poisonous), and re-insert them (green mushroom).

In your ROM folder you will see a folder called "Graphics".

Open two YY-CHRs. Open up GFX05.bin up in one YY-CHR. "File -> Save As..." and save that file as ExGFX80.bin in a new folder called ExGraphics in the same folder as your rom. You have made your first ExGFX file. Open up GFX13.bin in the other YY-CHR.

Here you see the Yoshi Egg, but it is not in the right color. Copy the egg from one YY-CHR and paste it to the other window where the Goal Question Mark Sphere is (Hint: You need to copy blank space in both first to get the paste button enabled). It's second from the right and BACKWARDS, so you may need to flip the Yoshi Egg (first button after redo).

Go back to Lunar Magic, and press the Yellow Mushroom (Quick Insert ExGFX). Press the red POISONOUS mushroom and check the checkbox. Recall that the Sphere uses the SP4 graphics, so set the SP4 to our new ExGFX file, ExGFX80. The colors are still off; I don't know much about sprite palettes, you may need to ask someone else that.


EDIT: beaten, sorry.
Aww, I can't have fun...
I tried the hard way and it turned into a green stomped Rex

Then I tried the easy way and it didn't work

I'm such a noob :/
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The hard way actually worked but what you have to do now is click the red poisonous mushroom on the menu bar. Click the check box at the top of the new window. Go to the bottom right hand corner (SP4) and change the setting to 05. If this interferes with other sprites then you will have to put the goal point question sphere (or Yoshi egg) in a different level.
Magicus: I got a green Yoshi egg

Yay! That's close lol
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To make it yellow, use Tweaker and change the palette it uses to palette "A".
That didn't work :/
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