Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
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- DragonTrainer
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Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
Just a little something I discovered about this site:
http://www.myspacegens.com/handler.php? ... age&p=view
You said that you have to put in the images separately because you can't use the same image twice when you first use the system. There's actually a way around that. By the way, I'm using firefox so I don't know if this works on other browsers. Anyway, what you do is, when you click "ADD" and the select file(s) window opens up, instead of clicking on the images, in the "file name" part, just put in quotations each of the names of all the image files you want to use... repeating file names as much as you like. For instance:
File Name: "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA4.png" "AA5.png"
This will put in each of the above files into the list in that order. This is the way around the "same image must be put in separately" rule.
http://www.myspacegens.com/handler.php? ... age&p=view
You said that you have to put in the images separately because you can't use the same image twice when you first use the system. There's actually a way around that. By the way, I'm using firefox so I don't know if this works on other browsers. Anyway, what you do is, when you click "ADD" and the select file(s) window opens up, instead of clicking on the images, in the "file name" part, just put in quotations each of the names of all the image files you want to use... repeating file names as much as you like. For instance:
File Name: "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA2.png" "AA3.png" "AA4.png" "AA5.png"
This will put in each of the above files into the list in that order. This is the way around the "same image must be put in separately" rule.
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Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
Great tutorial, thanks to you I know how to sprite! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
Wait, what? I went to paint.net and it was NOT a drawing site, it was a site selling paint! Help?
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Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
That's the name of the program, not a site.VonKarmaPride wrote:Wait, what? I went to paint.net and it was NOT a drawing site, it was a site selling paint! Help?
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
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OH! Thank you so much~mercurialSK wrote:That's the name of the program, not a site.VonKarmaPride wrote:Wait, what? I went to paint.net and it was NOT a drawing site, it was a site selling paint! Help?
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
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Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
I'm terrible at making animations, so sorry for my question. I know I can set my animation to different speed - but is there a software that can tell me how fast (in miliseconds) an existing sprite is animated?
Let's say, I want to edit a canon character's sprite and I want my new sprite to move at the same speed as the original one.
Let's say, I want to edit a canon character's sprite and I want my new sprite to move at the same speed as the original one.
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Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
Photoshop. Other than that, I have no idea.DarthWiader wrote:I'm terrible at making animations, so sorry for my question. I know I can set my animation to different speed - but is there a software that can tell me how fast (in miliseconds) an existing sprite is animated?
Let's say, I want to edit a canon character's sprite and I want my new sprite to move at the same speed as the original one.
Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
Gimp can do it too. For each frame, there should be something like "(100ms)" in the layer name.
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Thanks a lot. I'm familiar with GIMP, but I've never paid attention to that feature.
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Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
I found the frankenspriting process easy enough to self-teach. The real problem now is adjusting the blank space around each frame. For a defense attorney/prosecutor, how tall should the full file be, and how much blank space should be underneath the sprite? I experimented with having no blank space above or below one frame, and the guy ended up as a legless torso hovering above the prosecutor's desk.
Re: Re-coloration/Frankenspriting/Animating for Beginners
Best thing to do is get the attorney's bench and align it with the bottom left (bottom right, if prosecutor) of the image. Just be sure to keep it on the top layer, and everything should work out fine.
As for image dimensions, IIRC, the file should be 256 x 192 pixels.
As for image dimensions, IIRC, the file should be 256 x 192 pixels.