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How would you program sprite movement in a 2-D ariel view rpg game?
I'm relatively new to programming and I have recently programmed an RPG game in java.
Any tips on character movement with animations? I would like it to be similar to those of other rpg games such as ...
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How do I animate images with OpenGL? [closed]
I've been thinking about using set of PNG images (representing frames) and continuously change between them to look like an animation.
Is there a simpler/better way? (maybe using GIF?)
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How to render alpha channeled animated 2D sprites in OpenGL ES 2.0
I searched, but I can't find specifically how to render animated 2D sprites with an alpha channel onto a 3D polygon, z=0, in OpenGL ES 2.0.
This is just a basic 2D concept, but since I'm using, ...
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How do I make an arrow line up with a bow when rotating them?
I am trying to create a bow and arrow animation in which the player can drag downwards to increase the bow strength (see the image) and release it to hit a target. I can't get the arrow to align ...
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Efficient types of 2D animation
I currently am doing art for a game being made (by me...) and started to think of multiple different ways of animating.
The two I am currently debating, with myself, is single layered animation and ...
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Drawing multiple sprites with clear screen for every frame
I googled with best of my skills, but I cannot find any relevant answer to my problem. I'm making a game with an isometric view. I need to draw multiple sprites on the screen and before switching to ...
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2answers
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Software to create anime-looking animation? [closed]
I'm looking for a software for the creation of anime-like sprites. Look at those:
Those are hand-drawn. I want to generate sprites with that look, but in several (thousands) positions, in order to ...
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2answers
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Game library for 2D animation JS browsergame [closed]
I am developing a 2D multiplayer online browsergame.
On the backend I have set up a Node.js server. Everything works perfectly.
On the frontend I will use jQuery and several libs for collision etc. ...
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1answer
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how to make animation for a 2d game [duplicate]
I've started working on a 2d game. I wanted to know how animation usually works in 2d games - I know one way is to make a sprite sheet with frames of the animation, but you wouldn't see big sprite ...
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1answer
279 views
Sprite Animations in XAML for Windows Phone 8
I'm developing a 2D game for windows phone. It will feature rather simple 2D graphics and animations. I can get most things done using XAML an storyboards for animations. The performance is fine as ...
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3D-Engine for 2D Graph Visualization [closed]
I'm planning to use a 3D-engine to do visualization and animation of very large 2D-graphs of data (100k objects) using relatively simple shapes mainly boxes, circles, arcs, rounded-boxes, etc.
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Character jump animation is not working when I hit the space bar [closed]
I am having an issue with my game in XNA. My jump sprite sheet for my character does not trigger when I hit the space bar. I can't seem to find the problem. I have also include the code below to make ...
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Applying prerecorded animations to models with the same skeleton
well my question sounds a bit like, how do I apply mo-cap animations to my model, but thats not really it I guess. Animations and model share the same skeleton, but the models vary in size and ...
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1answer
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Problem animating in Unity/Orthello 2D. Can't move gameObject
I have a enemy npc that moves left and right in a corridor.
It's animated with 2 sprites using Orthello 2D Framework.
If I untick the animation's play on start and looping, the npc moves correctly.
...
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1answer
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C# - separate sprite for 2d character and arms
I'm making a 2D action platformer in C# (not using XNA).
So far I have the character drawn on the screen, animating and moving. The sprite sheets provided by the artist have the character and arms in ...
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2D animations frames vs 3D animation for small indie project: timing considerations
pretty lame question but was wondering..
I am developing a 2D game using Cocos2D for iOS. The art work till now is all 2D (is a shooter game) but some of the characters would benefit of complex ...
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3answers
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How to efficiently manage animations and/or textures (resources) in a game?
I am using Java, particularly the Slick2D library. Seeing as this is my first game, I have no idea how I should manage the Animations and the textures in the game in a way to be both memory efficient ...
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1answer
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Android 2D game, shooting and getting animation to stop
I'm developing a game as a learning-process, and since everything I do is new to me, I have alot of problems, usually I can fix it myself but right now I'm stuck and need help.
Link to a recording of ...
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2answers
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Changing sprite animation depending on direction
I'm working on an android game where my sprite is controlled by a joystick. I just added an animation to my sprite with 4 rows and 3 columns:
Now I want to change the animation of my sprite ...
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1answer
351 views
What's the best 2D animator?
What's the best 2D animator for creating sprite sheet animations for a game? Are there any that match this criteria?
Cutout animation (I don't want to have to draw every frame)
Exporting to images
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1answer
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How to properly simulate object aproximation towards camera in 2D?
I'm trying to make some objects come towards the camera but it just doesn't feel right... you can check the progress here:
http://testing.fyrastudio.com/lab/tweetOlympics/v0.005/
You run by ...
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2D animation example in pyglet (python) looping through 2 images/sprites every x seconds
Suppose you have two images: step1.png and step2.png .
Can anyone show me a very simple example in pyglet how to loop through those 2 images say every 0.5 seconds?
The character doesn't have to ...
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1answer
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How to handle animations?
I am coding a simple 2D engine to be used with HTML5. I already have classes such as Picture, Scene, Camera and Renderer, but now I need to work on Animations.
Picture is basocally a wrapper for a ...
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4answers
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Which image format to use for sprites in an HTML5 game?
In a 2D HTML5 game, what is the best image format to use and why? Should I use different formats in different situations? For example, .png for the background image, .jpeg for the animation frames and ...
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Why don't more games use vector art?
It would seem to me that vector art is more efficient in terms of resources/scalability; however, in most cases I have seen artists using bitmap/rasterized art. Is this a limitation put on the artists ...
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2answers
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2D Animation Smoothness - Delta time vs. Kinematics
I'm animating a sprite in 2D with key frames of rotation and xy-positions.
I've recently had a discussion with someone saying that when the device (happens to be an iPad using cocos2D) hits a ...
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0answers
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ball 2d animation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
canvas ball physics animation
I want to animate ball in html canvas like this.
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(75, 75, 10, 0, Math.PI*2, true);
ctx.closePath();
ctx.fill();
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2answers
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canvas ball physics animation
I want to animate ball in html canvas like this.
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(75, 75, 10, 0, Math.PI*2, true);
ctx.closePath();
ctx.fill();
start position is left top corner and ball's maximum ...
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3answers
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How to position a sprite in a 2D animation skeleton?
Given two joints that define a bone, I would like to know how to decide where, between those two joints, I should draw the sprite. This should be a fairly simple thing to solve, but there is one thing ...
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1answer
325 views
XNA: Good way to queue up animations
I'm writing an AnimatedSprite class that has an Animation object (which itself contains a sprite sheet).
The AnimatedSprite plays certain animations during key input. My problem is that how do I ...
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1answer
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How can I apply different actions to different parts of a 2D character?
I am developing a 2D platform game in Java. The player has a gun in his hand every time. He needs to walk and shoot with the gun(arrow keys for walk and X key to shoot). The walk cycle takes 6 frames ...
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2answers
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Tips on combining the right Art Assets with a 2D Skeleton and making it flexible
I am on my first attempt to build a skeletal animation system for 2D side-scrollers, so I don't really have experience of what may appear in later stages. So i ask advice from anyone that been there ...
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2answers
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Creating pixel art / animation with flash
I have a friend that was the one creating graphics for my games. He left the town for some months (work, sigh) and I have tried to get in contact with him but it is impossible right now. Last talk I ...
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1answer
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How can I change the path a sprite is following in real time?
Is there a common way to implement a character following path that is issued and replaced in real time?
For example: the character follows a path issued, and while it's on that path, if a new path is ...
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Tools for 2D skeletal animation
What good free and widely used tools are there for editing 2D skeletal animations? Preferably, one that allows me to write custom animation exporters.
One pretty good indie tool that I know of ...
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How Plants vs Zombies animation is done?
I really like the plants vs zombies style of animation and it doesn't look complicated yet the result is really good. I doubt it's made of sprites seeing there's a large number of animations, ...
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Public format for 2D animations
What public animation file formats are there available for 2D games? I'd like to know about both formats for procedural/skeletal animation, as well as traditional animation.
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Does there exist a library of animations for easing, skewing, bouncing, and squishing?
I'm specifically referring to the types of animations that are typical in 2D hand held games on the Nintendo platform, where menus slide in, bounce, squish, etc.
I'm looking for something that is ...
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Making smooth walk/jump/fly etc animations
i am soon gonna start with developing my own game for the iOS, i have the plan and idea of the game ready. BUT i have 1 question. How do people make such a smooth animation? Lets take for example: ...
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Better to use fixed sprite size or variable sprite sizes in a sprite sheet?
you have N frames for an animation (an idle animation for example) of a 2D character. What is the best resolution to use for each frame? The problem is that if you save the N frames such that each of ...
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2answers
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Problem With Smooth Animation In C++/SDL/OpenGL
I been working in the animation of a 2D platformer game in C++/SDL/OpenGL, and my team and I reach the point where we need to establish that every animation of the player (Walking, Running, etc..) ...
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How to tie a bullet release with a firing animation
Lets say you have an animation that you want to happen when firing a bullet. How would you get the bullet to show up at the end of the animation. The only thing I can figure out is to know the time ...
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Unity: 2D problem (I'm using Orthello package but any advice appreciated)
So instead of dishing out 150$ for SpriteManager 2 (Unity Package), I've been playing around with Orthello which a free SpriteManager package.
I got most of everything I'd like working and it was ...
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2answers
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XNA 4.0: Trouble Aligning an Animating Sprite (Texture Origin)
I'll try to explain this as best as I can.
I'm trying to build a game where there exists a "Surfer" who is surfing down a rail.
I have a sprite sheet for the surfer however I have been running into ...
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XNA 4.0: Animating a moving 2D sprite (not via user input)
I see a lot of tutorials explaining how to do 2D Sprite Animation with sprite sheets, based on the user's input (i.e. Move Left, Move Right ) etc.. etc..
I have already incorporated an ...
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Determine animation frame from interval
I have an array of sprites that are displayed in-order to make an animation. There is code in an update loop that has access to a value 'time' indicating how far along the animation is. Time is a ...
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J2ME character animation with multiple sprite sheets
I'm working on a J2ME game and I want to have walking animations.
Each direction of walking has a separate sprite sheet (i.e. one for walking up, one for walking right etc), I also have a static ...
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How to learn 2d animation?
Where can I learn how to do simple 2d animation well? Or is it really just literally drawing every single frame of something in photoshop? Is there tips or tricks? Tutorials to help get started?
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2answers
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Managing animations
I'm developing a 2d game that requires sprite based animations. I was thinking about which is the most convenient way to manage many of these sprites all together with timings.
I already know how ...
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Creating a 2D skeleton animation system for use with Panda3D
Hey. I want to be able to create a system for 2D skeletal animation in my game. I'm using panda3d as my game engine. I'd like to be able to make simple bone structures and skin them with my sprites. I ...
