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How to align sprites from a non-aligned sprite sheet?
When I deal with sprite sheets, I have to cut each sprite and adjust their offsets by hard.
This is too much work, so I've made a tool that does the following:
Analyze the image, detecting bounding ...
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What kind of projection is used here?
Tibia is a 2d game, but it's sprites are drawn using certain kind of orthographic projection that is not the same I'm used to:
I'm trying to figure out what projection is used here. I've guessed ...
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Question about creating a sprite based 2-D Side Scroller with scaling/zooming [closed]
I'm just wondering if anyone can offer any advice on how best to go about creating a 2-D game with zooming/scaling features akin to the early Samurai Showdown games. In this case it would be a side ...
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How to make a Sprite using CoreGraphics iOS - Cocos2d-iPhone
I'm trying to make a sprite that uses the graphics that are made with core graphics. I cant seem to find anything to explain how to make shapes using core graphics to create a sprite to use in ...
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Collision and Graphics integration
I'm a little confused about the integration between collision and graphics. They both need to share the same position in the world. The most obvious choice is the center of the entity, which is good ...
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How are 8/16 bit sprites created?
I already found this question, but it only talks about the kind of software used - not the actual methods. Were they drawn at a high resolution first and then shrunk down? Or did you just zoom way in? ...
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Including sprite file for mobile games
I'm making a simple online RPG for Android & IOS using HTML5 & Phonegap and was wondering: should I include sprite file with the game for downloads (because of bandwidth)? What should I do ...
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How to create life-like sprites from photo or video capture like was done for games like Mortal Kombat 1?
I know they digitized actors but how can I get those same results? How to take a photo or video of someone and digitize it for a 2D game? Digitized sprites were used in several video games through the ...
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Creating graphics at different angles for sprites
I am developing a Java game that uses sprites for the graphics. It's just a top down shooter and our ship sprites look like the following:
These work fine, but they're hard to create and the artist ...
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Anyone know of an online resource with spritesheets from classic games? [closed]
I'm looking for spritesheets for classic retro games, and old home computer games (c64, amiga etc.) Does anyone know of a source online?
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XNA Required information to represent 2D Sprite graphically
I was thinking about dividing my game engine into 2 threads: render thread and update thread (I can't come up on how to divide update thread from physic thread at the moment).
That said, I have to ...
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Tips and Tools for creating Spritesheet animations
I am looking for a tool that I can use to create sprite sheet easily.
Right now I am using Illustrator, but I can never get the center of the character in the exact position, so it looks like it is ...
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What's the best place to showcase my pixel art?
I recently started learning spriting/pixel art to help propel my game development endeavors and I've gotten to the point where I'd like to start sharing it for comments, critiques and other feedback.
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Where can I find free sprites and images? [closed]
I need sprites and images, such as characters, landscapes and others. Where can I find them?
