Sprite movment Question

[TT Snim]

Hi all, A simple question: Back in the day when I was trying to make a game the sprite system was all sorts of messed up.  In the new game engine am I riht to asume the sprites are all fixed animation wise? 

As in, we can have different animations for different moves? 

Because if it's fixed I'm going to make a game bassed for the Crafty Girls.. eventually… I'll sprite for it, any way.

[Vus]

Hey,

Well, I think it depends on what engine you use. Default EO is not really editable in this way, so you would have to use custom version where it's possible.

[TT Snim]

And the new enine? 

All I need to know is how to make the sprites for each engine, then i can work the art around the problem.  ^_^

[jcsnider]

If you explain a little more about how you remember the 'old system' I can tell you if it is the same or completely changed. As of now most engines on the site are using Rpg maker XP format characters instead of the old horizontal strip.

[TT Snim]

The problem with the old sprites was the way the program drew from the animation sheet to do both walk and attack.  On a normal RPG sprite sheet you have some thing that looks like this:

> > >  Walk right

^ ^ ^   Walk up

< < <  Walk left

v v v   Walk down

However the old system was it like this:

> > x  Walk right/ x = attack

^ ^ x   Walk up/ x = attack

< < x  Walk left/ x = attack

v v x   Walk down/ x = attack

This system meant that any basic sprite set used the right most walk animation as the character or NPC's attack animation, and left you with only two cells for your normal walk.  That's fine for me as I can make games around that system, but it still leaves things looking jerky and crude. 

What I want to know is if we now have a system/engine that uses a sprite sheet for _each action_.

Awesome Walk Animation

> > >  Walk right

^ ^ ^   Walk up

< < <  Walk left

v v v   Walk down

Attack Animations

> > >  Stab right

^ ^ ^   Stab up

< < <  Stab left

v v v   Stab down

> > >  Cast right

^ ^ ^   Cast up

< < <  Cast left

v v v   Cast down

Etc…

[jcsnider]

Nope, according to your description it would not be possible on any engine on this site without some extreme code edits.

[Growlith1223]

not really, just a simple edit to the amount of sprites to divide by(usually near the end of drawPlayer there's a gTexture(tex_Sprite(i)).Width / 4, change the 4 to a 6 or something) then with attacking just make it render the 5th/6th sprite then do the same with spells. simple as that.

[PD]

> Nope, according to your description it would not be possible on any engine on this site without some **extreme** code edits.

Lol. This is a rather simple edit. Take a look at what Growl said even though what Growl is suggesting is for one sprite sheet but you want 2(?) one for walking and one for attacking. That also is easy to do if you can do a bit of programming.

[TT Snim]

OK, thanks guys!  That actually helps.

Knowing that the code could be changed (I'd need help with that) gives me a green light to go ahead and start spriting for my own game again.  ^_^

[moronsnail]

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