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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Managing Sprites

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anwserman
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So, I'm wondering what's the best way to manage sprites. This new app that I'm making has a lot of sprites, and I'm trying to think of a way to automatically set sprites up (without hard-coding stuff).

Would creating a master list of "sprite templates" be a good way to do it? This list would define all sprites (animation, image id, layer, depth, animation) and then I could create a function to create a sprite off of the template, and it's good to go.

Does this sound valid?

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mineturtle
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i love having lots of sprites on the page because then you can have lots more fun
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mineturtle
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dug ar u talking to me
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mineturtle
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The Zoq2
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I believe that sounds like a good idea.

What I would do is something like this



Then when I want to create a copy of the sprite I would simply use the cloneSprite(template[1]) command. Im guessing that was something along the lines of what you want...

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JimHawkins
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What you would be doing is creating a "level" script. That's a good idea, because your base engine is simpler - it parses your script for this level and does the necessary. That's the kind of thing that Lua is used for.

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@mineturtle, as you are a new member to the forum your posts may take a while to be checked by a moderator. Please have patience as double / triple posting is frowned upon. I'm actually frowning now. Also please try to stay on topic.

That said, welcome to the forum. Your posts actually cheered me up

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anwserman
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Thank you everyone!
I created such a system and it's a breeze to assign and animate sprites now. I did the same for text objects (determining font sizes, etc.) and I think this is a very intuitive system that I'm setting up.

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Impetus73
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Look like he/she were trying to answer a facebook chat, and accidentally made posts?

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