The forum avatars

uaknight

When creating a new project, it's a nice touch to include the Godot icon, "icon.png". It's actually useful as a placeholder texture or sprite early in your project.

I noticed that when registering on the forum, you are given a nice little smiling avatar. It looks like that it's randomly selected from a collection. I wonder if this collection is available for use in your project? The smiling icons would be perfect for use as placeholder sprites for characters in the game, before the actual character graphics has been made.

If available, where can it be downloaded?

TwistedTwigleg

The smiling icons used on the forum are generated randomly using the VanillaIcon plugin, which has an online version here. I don't know if there is a way to download a set of the smiling icons, other than just generating a bunch of them and saving them individually.

uaknight

Ok, thanks for info.

Megalomaniak

node the following:

Vanillicons are avatars that are unique to your name or email address. They are free to take and use around the web. Create yours now!

Does not mention anything about licensing and only mentions usage around the net, so the safe assumption is that you aren't licensed to use them elsewhere. You could always register on https://open.vanillaforums.com/ and ask for permission there, and they might even be able to link you to a source repository for them perhaps, if they are willing.

Doesn't hurt to try. :)

uaknight

Sorry for late comment.

Yeah, I was thinking about the copyrights and also if you couldn't connect directly to the engine, it would be of little use.

However, I ended up doing the character graphics myself in Photoshop. It actually didn't take as long as I thought. About 20 characters in an afternoon. Once you are comfortable with PS, having set up the brushes to your liking, it's actually quite fast to make some low quality graphics.

Of course, my graphical skill development seems to have got stuck somewhere around me being 7 years old :p , but it still serves a purpose of injecting inspiration in the project. As well as later, if the project reaches the level when professional artists takes over, it would serve as conceptual graphics.