Cheat Engine

assaulter007

Well, I have my general character designs, and concepts on paper for this game im making, but I was trying to figure out what I would use to make the character sprites, as using paint sounds unproffesional.

I do have photoshop, but then I was woundering whether or not that would be useful or not...

Oblivious

CrisNMP

Using paint for sprites is not unprofessional, however if you were to use paint you should do a 2D game with pixel art.
What are you coding the game in?

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject:

Use whatever.

Typically, animations for the character are all on one texture if possible in 2d games. The animation routine just shifts focus on the texture as needed in a hopefully clever way in order to produce the illusion.

And keep everything in power of 2.

Oblivious

Spawnfestis · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 3:49 am Post subject:

First of all, drawing a 2D character is not easy.
If you have the talent, any program should be good to use. I could recommend Photoshop as many wouldn't, but Flash gives you vectors - Photoshop gives you pixels. So you choose your path that way.

All your images should be aligned like this;

Spritesheet
[Animation HIT] [hit2] [hit3] [hit4]
[Animation DIE] [die2] [die3] [die4]

All should be equally large, and within the power of two (64px each column is 8*8 in the power of two etc.)

When you then read in your sprite table, even if it doesn't fill exactly the amount of frames for each new column in your spritesheet - you'll have to go by that by checking how many frames each "animation" is. You could do that by storing constants within your class, for example

Fantasy · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 2:27 pm Post subject:

Paint could work just fine if you're doing sprites like Diablo 2 are running with .. 8 directions, 3 movements = 24 sprites for 1 character Smile

It is a lot of work, sure .. But, I mean .. If you don't want to put alot of time and effort into this, then the game is going to suck :\

~Pineapple! · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject:

If your making a pixel sprite i would recommend Graphics Gale. Its very well suited for pixel design.

iGod · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject:

Chidori · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 4:11 pm Post subject:

sometimes if you use a sprite sheet the game engine your using can animate it

Spawnfestis · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:59 am Post subject:

~Pineapple! · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:00 am Post subject: