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Uechi

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Posted: 10th Apr 2014 23:10

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I have a png file of a sword handle and a png file of a sword blade.
How can I create a complete sword sprite from these two assets?
Do I need a software package? What is good?
Should this post be on a different forum?

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Funnell7

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Posted: 10th Apr 2014 23:40

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There are lots... But I use Paint.net which is free and in my opinion very good.

Load them both in (as separate layers), position them accordingly and then resave as .png.

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Uechi

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Posted: 11th Apr 2014 00:08

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@Funnel7 Thank You

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Uechi

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Posted: 13th Apr 2014 18:47

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@Funnell7 - can you amplify your comment a bit. I tried using paint.net and I almost got what I wanted. I had trouble using layers so I tried other things. But after manipulating two sprites I didn't quite get what I wanted. I ended up with white space to the right of my "combined" sprite instead of the checkerboard look which would end up being transparent when I loaded the sprite into a game. I hope I explained this okay and you can help me. I also have paint shop pro and corel photopaint but I couldn't figure out how to combine the sprites there either.

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