Summary: Switches the skin so you can play as Kate protecting the poor, injured Bob.
Download: http://theindiestone.com/community/download/file.php?id=213
Installation: Open the zombie.jar file with an appropriate viewer for compressed files (WinRAR does the trick for me) and navigate to .\media\texturepacks\ and then insert the new characters.png and characters.txt there.
Additional Information:
The character sprites will consume slightly more memory; it should be a negligible amount, but safer to point it out. It works fine on my machine, but just in case something somewhere goes very weird for no apparent reason.
Also due to some sprites changing dimensions as well as coordinates on the sheet means a few frames can seem to jump around a bit; I haven’t quite figured out what exactly the offset counts from to be able to calculate what they should be, so much of it was put together from the hip, so to speak. Also, not all frames necessarily look all that great – with the attack frames I felt I had to try to stick to just tweaking the normal frames because they need to line up with the actual weapon sprites, and beyond that I haven’t done pixel arts in years (and never was all that great at animation anyway) so I may be a bit rusty.
Finally, as a bonus, in the bottom right corner of characters.png is a picture frame showing Bob Smith which you can optionally (and manually) paste over the Kate Smith picture in ui.png if it feels too narcissistic of Kate to pick up a picture of herself upon smothering her husband to death with a pillow. No strings or UI or anything is changed otherwise, so some of the text and tutorial messages may seem a tad.. strange. Especially that raider calling you “bald spot”.
Anyhow, enjoy, and if you feel you can improve upon it or otherwise make something better/fun/other thing/etc out of it, feel free to.
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