My Singing Monsters/Unused Graphics
This is a sub-page of My Singing Monsters.
Contents
- 1 Unused Graphics
- 1.1 Early Breeding Portraits
- 1.2 Early or Placeholder Eggs
- 1.3 Early/Placeholder Monster Designs
- 1.4 Rare Scaratar and Loodvigg Portraits
- 1.5 Unused Monster Parts
- 1.5.1 Unused Rare Oaktopus Beard
- 1.5.2 Early Epic Maw Body
- 1.5.3 Early Epic Dandidoo Head
- 1.5.4 Spunge's Cheeks
- 1.5.5 Early Epic Rootitoot Pipe
- 1.5.6 Unused Rare Quarrister Horns
- 1.5.7 Rare Yelmut Flippers
- 1.5.8 Separated Epic Sneyser Nostrils
- 1.5.9 Unused PongPing Hands
- 1.5.10 Unused Purple Fluoress Lights
- 1.5.11 Unused Fluoress Hair Sprite
- 1.5.12 Unused Fluoress Plant Parts
- 1.5.13 Rare Knuckleheads Gloves
- 1.5.14 Banjaw Head Blur
- 1.5.15 Fiddlement Turning Face
- 1.5.16 Early Epic Hoola Hips
- 1.5.17 Alternate Rare Monculus Head
- 1.5.18 Early Epic Humbug Head
- 1.5.19 Unused Vhenshun Sprites
- 1.5.20 Placeholder Epic Bellowfish Legs and Feet
- 1.5.21 Separated Glaishur Horns
- 1.5.22 Cold Island Wubbox Cold Sigil
- 1.5.23 Early Epic Wubbox Orbs
- 1.5.24 Early Water Epic Wubbox Eyes
- 1.5.25 Mouths
- 1.6 Awakened Colossals
- 1.7 Early Air Island Tree Sprites
- 1.8 Construction
- 1.9 Memory Game
- 1.10 Elements
- 1.11 Level Icons Past Level 20 (Old GUI Style) and Level 0
- 1.12 Unused MindBoggle Sky Sprite
- 2 Obscured Graphics
Unused Graphics
Early Breeding Portraits
Found in version 1.0. It is a rough drawing of Cybop.
Found in version 1.0. It is an early sketch of Reedling.
Found in version 1.0. It is concept art for Scups.
Found in version 1.0. It is concept art for PomPom.
Found in version 1.0. It is concept art for Riff.
Found in version 1.0. ABCD is Shellbeat's element codename.
A placeholder icon for Quarrister, which uses an old concept art for a monster called Floot Fly. Big Blue Bubble made a social media post showing its full design, not too long before the monster was added into the game as the single elemental of Faerie. It appears that it would've played some sort of flute. According to one of the ultimate creators who designed a Mythical monster, it was scrapped in favor of Quarrister after Dave Kerr found a choir VST he wanted to use.
In early versions of My Singing Monsters, there existed a breeding icon for Wubbox in its box form.
Early or Placeholder Eggs
An early Cybop egg found in versions 1.0 to 1.0.1.
An early Reedling egg found in versions 1.0 to 1.0.2.
An early Scups egg found in versions 1.0 to 1.0.2. This egg was mistakenly used as Scups's egg when version 1.0.2 released. It can still be seen in the goals menu.
An early PomPom egg found in versions 1.0 and 1.0.1.
An early Riff egg found in versions 1.0 and 1.0.1. For some reason, this is the only placeholder egg that has its element code on it to not be a bumpless recoloured Maw egg, and it is possible this egg was taken from a scrapped or early version of a Monster.
An early version of Shellbeat/PongPing's egg found in versions 1.0 to 1.0.2. The text on the egg is Shellbeat's element codename.
A placeholder version of Quarrister/Floot Fly's egg from versions 1.0 to 1.0.4.
Early/Placeholder Monster Designs
Early Cybop sprites found in version 1.0. These depict Cybop as having a body seemingly made of stone.
Early Pompom sprites found in version 1.0.
Early Spunge sprites found on a Monster Choir variant's sprite.
A placeholder image of Scups found in version 1.0. This uses its concept design.
A placeholder image of Riff found in version 1.0. This uses its concept design.
In the iOS version of 1.1.0, there was an image of a Quarrister concept titled "earthboss_sample.png". It is seemingly made out of wood instead of rock, and it has 8 heads instead of 6. The concept of 8 heads was reused for Rare Quarrister.
In the Android version of 1.1.0, there was a placeholder graphic for Yool, with it being a paper sketch. Interestingly this file is named "monster_S01_sprite", despite Yool being S02 and Punkleton being S01.
When Hawlo first released with Bone Island, it used an early design that had the cherry as a leaf. Remnants of this can be found in the sprite name of the cherry, with it being named "leaf".
For a short time after its release, all depictions of Spytrap besides the Monster itself and the egg featured an early version with only 2 arms, the bulb being more transparent, and there being less detail on the stem.
When Rare Screemu first released, its Book of Monsters icon mistakenly used an early version of its design with a red mouth. This was fixed shortly after.
Rare Scaratar and Loodvigg Portraits
Portraits exist for "rare" variants of Scaratar and Loodvigg from when Adult Celestials were first added. The portraits are just color inverted versions of their young portraits. These were likely meant as placeholders for the Adult Celestials, as they were added in the same update as those, and Adult Celestials are referred to as Rares in the monster_data.xml file. These were removed from the game in the next update.
Unused Monster Parts
Unused Rare Oaktopus Beard
In version 4.1.3, an unused beard sprite for the Rare Oaktopus named squidtree_beard_1_RARE was added.
Interestingly, after the update, the xml for Oaktopus was updated in the cache to separate this sprite and add a note saying "this is new?".
Early Epic Maw Body
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In Epic Maw's sprite sheet, there is an early version of its body which is missing its horns.
Early Epic Dandidoo Head
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In Epic Dandidoo's sprite sheet, there is an early version of its head which doesn't have any horns.
Spunge's Cheeks
Spunge has sprites for cheeks that are never used in the game. It seems these were scrapped early on in development, as they were never polished to be in the MSM art style and are a solid color.
Early Epic Rootitoot Pipe
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Epic Rootitoot has an early version of its second pipe sprite, where the robotic part is slightly different and doesn't cover the entire top of its pipes.
Unused Rare Quarrister Horns
Rare Quarrister has some unused horn sprites for the middle bottom and middle top heads, with the bottom having the same coloured horns as the common and the top having red horns. Interestingly, the top one only has 1 horn sprite, meaning either the second horn wasn't finished or it was meant to have 2 differently coloured horns.
This is what it would look like with these sprites.
Rare Yelmut Flippers
Despite not having any flippers, Rare Yelmut has unused flipper sprites. For some reason, these sprites have a brighter shine than the flipper sprites of its Common counterpart.
Separated Epic Sneyser Nostrils
Epic Sneyser has unused sprites for separated nostrils.
Unused PongPing Hands
PongPing has 5 unused hand sprites, 1 for its left hand and 4 for its right. Interestingly, these sprites don't exist for the rare, meaning the artists knew they would never get used.
Unused Purple Fluoress Lights
There are 4 sprites for an unused purple light on Fluoress. Though they do appear on some promotional art for the version 3.0.1 update. The hex recolor value for these sprites is #F000FF.
Unused Fluoress Hair Sprite
There is a sprite for the back of Fluoress's hair called "W_hat_back" that goes unused. It is seemingly unfinished, as it is a solid color.
Unused Fluoress Plant Parts
There are unused sprites for Fluoress of a stem and right leaf, suggesting it originally had a plant on its head instead of hair. The stem appears to be able to glow, and all sprites here are a solid color.
Rare Knuckleheads Gloves
In Rare Knuckleheads spritesheet there are 2 unused sprites called "wy_right_wood" and "wy_left_wood". These sprites are used in the idle animation, but their opacity is set to 0. These sprites were removed in version 4.1.4.
The animation looks like this when their opacity is set to 100. Judging by the fact that they are only used for 2 of the hands in the idle animation, it was likely that all hands would've had gloves before they scrapped the idea.
Banjaw Head Blur
An unused motion blur sprite for Banjaw's head exists, which would have likely been used when playing its sound.
Fiddlement Turning Face
Fiddlement has unused sprites for its eyes and mouth that likely would've been used when turning.
Early Epic Hoola Hips
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In the sprite sheet for Epic Hoola, there is an early version of its hips that resembles the hips of the Common Hoola.
Alternate Rare Monculus Head
Rare Monculus has an extra head sprite with a longer inside
Early Epic Humbug Head
Epic Humbug has an unused head that is a grayscale version of the common Humbug head.
Unused Vhenshun Sprites
The mech quad Vhenshun has an unused, unfinished claw sprite and an unused darker back foot sprite.
Placeholder Epic Bellowfish Legs and Feet
Epic Bellowfish has unused leg and feet sprites. These sprites have text on them saying "Replace", "Temp", and "Hide".
Separated Glaishur Horns
There are 2 unused sprites of Glaishur's horns which go unused due to them being part of the head sprite.
Cold Island Wubbox Cold Sigil
In the MSM Official Guide files, Wubbox's spritesheet had sprites for all the elements besides Cold. These were most likely going to be on the design depending on which Island it was on. In the main game, the Cold element appears in Cold Island Wubbox's sprite sheet. Prior to version 3.7.0, this sprite was only in the Steam version of the game, however 3.7.0 put all the HD sprites into the mobile version, bringing this sprite with them.
Early Epic Wubbox Orbs
Every single Epic Wubbox (Except for Gold Island) has early orb sprites, which are just recolourings of the common Wubbox orb. Note that the early orbs for the Water and Earth Island Epic Wubboxes were mistakenly used for a short time upon release.
Early Water Epic Wubbox Eyes
The Water Island Epic Wubbox has unused sprites for eye sockets and an eye.
Mouths
Some Monsters have mouth sprites that go unused due to them not being included in any of their animations.
An unused seventh mouth for Tweedle and its Rare and Epic counterparts.
An unused seventh mouth for Glowl and its epic.
An unused eighth mouth for Flowah.
An unused eighth mouth for Tring and its rare and epic variants.
An unused 18th mouth for the emperor Bisonorus and its rare. Interestingly, mouths 10-18 are all unused in Dawn of Fire, and are likely mouths from an earlier design, with the first 8 of them mistakenly being used in MSM.
An unused third mouth for PongPing and its rare. This likely would've been used as a transition from mouth 2 to mouth 4.
An unused eighth mouth for Candelavra and its rare.
Awakened Colossals
3 unused frames of the awakened Plant Island Colossal's eye from before version 3.8.0. In the final game, the Colossal's eyelids aren't fully opened.
A test sprite sheet for the colossal eyes simply named eye_test.png, which like the previous sprites was from before version 3.8.0.
Early Air Island Tree Sprites
The only difference in this is that the big and medium trees have a branch missing, and the big tree's leafless branch is shaped differently.
Construction
In the structures gfx folder, there is an unused "construction" structure. This was likely going to be used when upgrading or placing a Structure.
Memory Game
A sprite for Starpower in the Memory Game. Starpower is never obtainable through the Memory Game, making this go unused.
Elements
In 1.1.7, there is a blank and unfinished Mech element sigil that is just the background with no Mech icon.
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An early version of the Supernatural element that doesn't have any electricity around it.
An unused element called "generic_holiday" from 1.1.6 that has the design of the Legendary sigil, just without the rays of light. It would've likely appeared as the element for all Special Edition Monsters. It was removed in 1.1.7.
Level Icons Past Level 20 (Old GUI Style) and Level 0
In early versions of My Singing Monsters, before Monsters could go past level 15, there were level icons for levels past 15, implying that Monsters were originally planned to be able to reach levels up to 20. There were also two icons for level 0, one of which uses the new GUI art style.
Unused MindBoggle Sky Sprite
In the files of the game, there is an unused Psychic Island sky for the MindBoggle Island Skin. For some reason the skin just uses the normal Psychic Island background.
Obscured Graphics
Hidden Cybop Eyeball and Pupil
On Cybop's head sprite, there is an unused pupil and eyeball on it. This red pupil is very similar to the pupil in Cybop's concept art. They can be seen on the head sprites for the Natural, Rare, and Epic Cybops.
Epic Stogg Nose
Epic Stogg has the nose of the common Stogg hidden under its muzzle.
Floot Fly's Full Head
In Floot Fly's head sprite, there is a green patch that is covered up by a mask sprite when in-game. This is likely a reference to Floot Fly's placeholder "I'm green" description in 1.0.4. This part of the head could be seen in the Magical Sanctum trailer, where Floot Fly was chilling in a hot spring with its mask off.
For Rare Floot Fly, the green part is instead blue.
Rare Knucklehead Back Jaw
Rare Knucklehead has a sprite for the backside of its jaw, however only a very small part of it is ever seen normally.
Hidden Whisp Eye
Similar to Cybop, hidden under Whisp's eye on its head sprite is a hidden eye.
Full Periscorp Body
The top half of Periscorp's body is an unfinished and unshaded version of its body, which is a solid red. The colour here is the same as the colour of an early Periscorp design seen in an image that appeared when MSM was first listed on Steam.
Dragong Neck Eye
On the neck sprite for Dragong, there is an eye on the spot where the head goes. It is possible that this would have been used and Dragong would have never had a head.
Knurv's Full Head
Similar to Floot Fly, the Dreamythical Knurv has a head hidden under it's mask, where a mouth with 2 teeth can be seen.
Zuuker Rigging Guide
Hidden on Zuuker's body sprite is a red dot that was used as reference for rigging it. These red dots can be seen on many early sprites from Dawn of Fire.
Celestial Island Golden Cork
Hidden under the cork sprite on Celestial Island is a golden cork that is cut off where the ear ends.
