Idk if this already has been discussed but what about back sprites?
Or at least, in battle, I'd like to see the player standing there, like how other trainers stand there during battle. It'd be cute C:
it would be, but because we aren't artists we are just using sprites from the games. the trainer sprites in the battles look good in the gameboy games but they aren't going to look right in our 3d field.
the more detail something has the more you expect from it, so if we had one of those back sprites behind the pokemon people would be wondering why they arent all animated and why they are in awkward poses etc. the overworlds look just fine sitting behind their pokemon
however, id like npc textures to be able to go higher res if the artist wishes, so instead of officially supporting fancy trainer sprites we can just allow the sprite for the trainer to be higher res so if someone wants to they can draw good sprites for that, they can.