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2D All the way! / Sprite creation

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crzygmr
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Posted: 7th Aug 2004 05:30
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I am a newbie at this and me and my friend were thinging of making a 2D side scroller and I was wondering what is the best software for sprite creation. Also wondering how one would be able to animate the sprite in the game.
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Cookyzue
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Posted: 7th Aug 2004 07:08 Edited at: 7th Aug 2004 07:16
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do you have dbpro or classic, if you have pro you can use create animated sprite. when you use that all the frames are in the same image divided equally. But if you have classic, youll just have to change the image you use for the sprite, i guess.

and for software, mspaint is fine, not the best but it will do, unless you want to spend like $500 for adobe photoshop 7, there was a pretty good paint program that was free, i cant remember what it was called write now though.

edit:yeah, i remember now, its ccalled gimp, get it at
http://www.gimp.org


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Pincho Paxton
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Or Anim8or which is a free 3D modeller. It actually makes great 2D animations. But you have to learn how to model. I prefer this method, combined with Photoshop.

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crzygmr
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Hey thanks for the suggestions. I will be sure to try them out. But, just curious, would paint shop pro do just about the same thing are your suggestions better.
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Pincho Paxton
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PSP is OK. You can still get Anim8or as well. It helps you to get the lighting right on your graphics.

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wkitching
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Microsoft GIFAnimator. Under half a meg in download... simple to use, fast and reliable... you wont need anything else.

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Zero Blitzt
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You cant use GIFs in DarkBasic, I believe. Well, if you want something like when the sprite moves to the right, and the characters legs and arms move to right as if they are running, you will need to animate your sprite in DarkBasic.

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Ooska
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This seemed like a good place to ask....Im new too and i can make sprites but i can't move them! Please help. Thanks.

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Emperor Baal
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Quote: "This seemed like a good place to ask....Im new too and i can make sprites but i can't move them! Please help. Thanks.
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Moving sprites is easy:

sprite 1,0,0,1
sync
sprite 1,10,0,1
sync

and you moved sprite 1. Just call the sprite command again.

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Bishop
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im tellin ya, use graphics gale....i love that program, easy to use and you can make animations.....try it out (hey, its free!!)

http://www.tempest-j.com/gale/e/


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Lord Aramus
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At least the program is in english.. All the screenshots are Japanese

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Game Writer
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Try [hrefhttp://www.jasc.com/products/paintshoppro]Paint Shop Pro 9[/href] it costs money but it's diffinitely worth it!

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