Author Archives: AFDStudios

HM3: Female Mouths

I've just updated HeroMachine 3 with a new set, "Mouth-Female-Standard" that properly positions and sizes all of the old items to fit on the female figure's head. This should complete the set of gendered features and make it easier to create your heroines or villainesses. As always, you may need to clear your browser's cache (but not Flash cookies!) to see the new option appear.

While moving these around I kept thinking "Man, that dblade does some nice work." So thanks again, sir, for your fine artistic skills and generous spirit!

HM3: Female Facial Features Now Added

I've just updated HeroMachine 3 with support for three new sets of items, female versions with properly positioned and sized ears, eyebrows, and noses. Mouths and eyes already had such sets published, but until now you had to manually tinker with the others to get them to fit.

Let me know if you see any weirdness. Hopefully this will make it faster and easier to create your female characters.

As usual, you may need to clear your browser cache (note, do NOT clear Flash cookies or you'll lose your saves!) if the new options aren't immediately visible in the set selection drop down list.

HM3: Standard Female load working

With sincere apologies for taking so long on what was, at the end of a day, a very easy fix, I have updated HeroMachine 3 so that when you pick the "Standard Female Load" option on the start screen, you actually get a female and not a glowering male warrior. What you now get is this:

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Note that while the Standard Male appears in black and white and nude, the female has color and items. That's because a lot of the female items don't go in the right place or aren't positioned properly to fit on the standard female body. In order for the rotation, scaling, and positioning to hold, I have to have an item actually present on the canvas. That way when you change it to one you actually prefer, it's in the right spot. Also too, colors are nice.

All of this is temporary (for certain very long values of "temporary", as history has shown to my embarrassment) until I get all the items converted, duped, and/or recreated so they're in the right spot by default. As time has gone on I've realized I will have to abandon my original plan of loading up standard items that are rotated on the fly to be right, and instead will have to just create whole new female sets where everything's in the proper place without fiddling with it.

Happy Birthday, Hammerknight!

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I just wanted to take a moment to wish a very Happy Birthday to our own Hammerknight. Thanks for all you do around here, buddy, and I hope you have a great one!

HeroMachine on your iPad, iPhone, or Android device!

If you've ever been frustrated by being unable to use HeroMachine on an iPad, iPhone, or Android device (as I have), your problems are solved! For a very small price, you can install the Photon Browser from AppsVerse onto your mobile device and enjoy any Flash-based content on the Internet, like HeroMachine.

I've been playing with it all day on my iPhone and it works great. It does cost a nominal fee (I want to say $4), but you can finally take HeroMachine (and all other Flash content) with you wherever you go.

“Hall of Fame” new entries

Many thanks to those of you who submitted nominations for new "Hall of Fame" entries. I went through them all, limited myself to one per creator, and selected the ones I thought were truly exceptional. Congratulations to AMS, djuby, Harlequin, Iscarioto, NHA247, RobM, Scatman, and Trekkie!

“Wanderer 2” by Trekkie

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“Dark Swarm” by Scatman

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“Gorilla Assault” by RobM

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“The Lantern” by NHA247

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