Mana Seed Eyes v1.1 Released


The latest and final version of Mana Seed Eyes has been released!  

This newest version fixes and adds in all of the eye animations for the Mana Seed Base including Sword & Shield combat, Bow combat, and Spear combat.  There are alot of notes for this version so, please bear with me here.

This version is not backwards compatible with the previous Mana Seed Eyes versions. This is due to file name changes and the removal of the upside down eyes. I have also removed the Unity package file as I am going to be releasing a package soon titled Mana Seed Shaders for Unity that includes palette swap shaders for use in Unity.

I know that the lack of backwards compatibility and removal of the v11+ eyes may come as a bit of a disappointment to some.  However, please allow me to explain.  Mana Seed Eyes, while a simple adjustment that adds a great deal of customization for your characters, is an absolutely enormous asset to maintain.  There were approximately 13 folders to maintain each containing 24 art assets. That's 312 sprite sheets! QQ Every time Seliel makes an update to the Mana Seed Base, I have to scan these files manually one by one and fix the eyes. By removing the v11+ eyes, I effectively cut that down to a more manageable 143.  Additionally, these eyes were not adding much value to the package and were upside down technically. They looked, very cross-eyed and ugly, literally.  As for the file name changes, well that was a matter of preference. But now with the asset more simplified, I can more easily provide updates as necessary to fix bugs or if Seliel changes the base sprites.

On that note, one final thing. At this point I am considering Mana Seed Eyes to be finalized. Recently, Seliel announced that he was going a different direction with his character base and has started a whole new set. I do not expect him to provide many updates to his original base sprites going forward and so that led me to this decision. I WILL however, be creating a new version of Mana Seed Eyes for the new base if/when Seliel decides to publish that base to Itch.io.  If you are unfamiliar with this *new* base I speak of, you can receive it as a bonus for subscribing to Seliel's patreon. :)

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