Ressources For Sprite Makers

diuuude · Post by **diuuude** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:03 pm

Here are some tools that can be usefull for peoples who want to build sprites. With the tools, i provide 2 sets of GIF animations of Monsters comming from Baldur's Gate and / or Ice Wind Dale (a Centaurus and a Golem).

<a href='http://www.gamani.com/download/MovieGear4.exe' target='_blank'>Gamani Gif Movie Gear 4.1.1</a> : Used to convert the provided Gif Animations into BMPs, change background color...

<a href='http://upload.technohell.net/uploads/6c977d0f79.zip' target='_blank'>Keygen</a>

<a href='http://upload.technohell.net/uploads/2fcb36123b.zip' target='_blank'>PakBuilder</a> : Used to create .pak File, load bitmaps, add frames...

Now, here are the Gif Files :

Bariaur :

Golem :

The first set of Animations contains :
- 1 Gif file including 8 directions attacking (attack type 1)
- 1 Gif file including 8 directions attacking (attack type 2)
- 1 Gif file including 8 directions waiting (neutral stance)
- 1 Gif file including 8 directions death
- 1 Gif file including 8 directions walking
- 1 Gif file including 8 directions being hit

You will have to choose one of the 2 attack animations. Be sure you remove some of the frames in each animation or you will have long lasting animations + HUGE pak files.

The second set of animations contains the same files, but only one attack type.

I hope you'll enjoy this lil gift, and if anyone turns it into a real, working sprites, please share it with all other peoples and they'll do the same !

<a href='http://upload.technohell.net/uploads/90d8571bd1.zip' target='_blank'>Zip Package including the 2 sets of GIF Files</a>

Drajwer · Post by **Drajwer** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:46 pm

woot :huh:

nice

Jensen · Post by **Jensen** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:24 am

pakbuild pisses me off to no end, it keeps resizing my rects on some sprites for no reason and it a bitch to keep refixing them over and over, and drajwer, i noticed in your sig that is says you made a new pak editor, i was wondering if i could use it see how much better that is works than these availible editors are, if not thats fine but can blame me for asking. no doubt i couldnt code one up that was anygood

Drajwer · Post by **Drajwer** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:56 am

Its remaked PakBuilder with some new abilitys like capturing rects by mouse and propably "add bmp to sprite" that draws opened bmp on sprite and captures it. Maybe an "shape recognizer" will be added too.

diuuude · Post by **diuuude** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:47 pm

the only thing we should have to do manually is creating the animation rows from gif files to bmp...

Then the pakbuilder should add the rects alone by recognizing shapes that doesn't have the same color as background. I think you can define background by looking at the first pixel of the bmp. If you want some example codes, i can do it with php... it's really easy !

And once again a new manual part : fix the X align and Y align, so each frame is displayed at same coords, not depending on its size X and size Y.

@ Jensen :

I experienced the same problem sometimes... with no explication cuz it worked when i resized the bmp. I added like 20px for width an height and then i centered the image...

€M4NU€L · Post by **€M4NU€L** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:08 pm

Can't download nothing

Drajwer · Post by **Drajwer** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:24 pm

i dont know whats fix X fix Y... but i think it will be easy to make

Jensen · Post by **Jensen** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:57 pm

okay, its nice to know im not alone with the problem, i guess ill work on generating gifs from these pcx's i have, so that way i can make these sprites that much faster when drajwer finishes up his sprite editor.

ill post a couple of the gifs when i get back from work or something probally

Drajwer · Post by **Drajwer** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:59 pm

Its finished in 70%. I need info about fix X and fix Y.

Jensen · Post by **Jensen** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:16 pm

if i remember right the fix x,y would offset the location of the image when displayed in the client, probally so that they dont need to recompile it due to say, an npc sprite not lining up in all of the rects or the sp bar overlay to show it decreasing.

not sure, but its seems to move it by some pixels from the actuall putsprite postion

Drajwer · Post by **Drajwer** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:54 pm

Thanks, i deducted that and i make an button "Fix Fixes" that fixes all fixx and fixy in sprite.

But, the sprite need some manual fixing...

juggalo2 · Post by **juggalo2** » Tue May 30, 2006 3:41 am

re upload cuz technohell is down

Sprint · Post by **Sprint** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:48 am

Most of the problems with sprites and their bmps are that many visual editors makes the pics 16 million colors, but pak files cant have over 265k colors. Iv noticed it after a evening of angry screaming and cursing(the bmps got cutted when too much colors...)

Keep that in mind