I'm going to try to make my 1st actor. Any tips, helpful advice, anything?
( I'm looking/studying the walkpath tutorial )
If i horrible fail, which i will, then i will do that.

Start out with a <light/heavy> resprite, then grow from there. I wouldn't think of walkpaths right off the bat.

Eh, the only real pieces of an actor is:
Head
Body
2x Legs
2x Arms
2x Feet
2x Hands

When I sprite a new actor I typically go by this
Head
Body
Upper arms
Lower arms
Upper Legs
Lower Legs
Foot
Hand

When I animate the arms and legs, I superimpose the upper and lower parts over a already existing leg/arm sprite, and rotate the parts to each frame.

Looked at the sprites for a coalition heavy and then gave up. Way to much too resprite.
Then why does it have many extra pieces?
I don't see how i would make a actor anyway, i can't/can hardly make a gun. <<I can only resprite one.

Because it uses attachables, which are used as armor. The coalition heavy has body armor and a helmet. As well, arms/legs/feet/hands have Foreground and <Darkened> Background sprites.

Oh. So if i look at.....a dummy.....it would be a simple resprite?
Simpler but not too simple....

Clarify. Though I must say a lot of people these days seem to start out with a resprited dummy, its up to you as to what AHuman you want to use as your template. Just be forewarned, it's usually never a good idea to release simple resprites, except they should be your practice actors.

That is, ONLY resprites in a pack. Nobody will mind if you make some guns and whatnot for them as well. Attachable armors help your case as well.

Well i guess im gonna try a "Dummy Revolution" pack.

Don't, there is way too many already, everyone will tell you that.
Instead, make a whole new faction, using the same torso, leg, arm, head size as the dummies.
As in re-sprite everything, but don't just recolour.

Also Dummy Revolution will get ridiculed like DUM-E even though it had crazy custom weapons plus attachable.

Don't make your re-sprite, look like a recolour.

Just a head-up, of course, if its your first actor, mind dumping it in the mod dump?

After reading this thread, i started spritin a head of an actor i might make, but i dont know whether its more like a robot or a fleshy alien. Take a look and see if you can help me out.EDIT: this si also my first time making an actor.

Since the crazy Actor creating fest started, i started making a tutorial, release due somewhere between this Friday to next Friday.

I have one question. What editing software did you use? I use paint.net but it *only* lets me paint in pixels. Its only useful when you want to do low-quality stuff. The pixels are quite big. A dummies head is 11x11 pixels. I would like software that would let me paint in smaller pixels or such.

Paint. Also, you guys didnt answer my question, whats it look like to you?

Looks more like a robot but I would try making it look like a hybrid of both. Like have a alien face under it or something. Would be cool.