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2D All the way! / 2D Sprites

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Bigdog
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Posted: 3rd May 2003 11:44 Edited at: 3rd May 2003 14:08
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Does anyone know how to define the edge of a 2D sprite when you are making them. I only have paint so that is what I am trying to do it in. Do you use the color black or do I actually have to make my sprites the shape I want them. Also if you know a place with a good resource of 2D sprites please tell me. I tried the Resource section of this site but none of the links seem to work . If anyone has a good 2D space invaders sprite it would be most appreciated.

Thanks

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Steven Craft
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Posted: 3rd May 2003 15:37
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Darkbasic (classic) treats pure black as transparant, and I haven't yet found a way of changing this to another colour (maybe you need pro for that).

I don't know of any good resource sites im afraid.

Also, its advisable to try and use a better program for drawing your tiles, ideally I like to use adobe photoshop, but if you can't get acess to that, do a search around the net for free paint programs, im sure there are ones around better then ms paint,

Hope that helps, Steve

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IanM
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Posted: 3rd May 2003 21:06
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You can use any colour that you want in DBPro:



You'll see that this code is pasting the screen with transparency active - the screen will stay black. Sprites also use the SET IMAGE COLORKEY to determine the transparent colour.

You should try and use a better paint program though - one that already has the ability to save images with transparency. As steven said, Photoshop is one, Paintshop is another - in fact most art packages will allow you to do this now.

See if you can get a demo of paintshop from a magazine cover CD.
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BahamutZERO
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Posted: 10th May 2003 02:48
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I use an engine that creates rpgs and theere is also a whole community that uses it. We use loads of sprites that can be adapted for DB. Check out http://www.hellfusion.com and http://gaminggroundzero.com . Thre are also rips from official releases there.

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GinGuy
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Posted: 14th May 2003 02:44
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A good paint program is imageforge. There's still a free version, that does pretty much everything I need. The pro version is very affordable at 29 US dollars. The site is www.cursorarts.com.

As for getting sprites, what I do(since I'm only learning) is run a shareware shooter, hit printscreen, then paste that into my paint program. Then it's just a few cut,pastes, and touchups, and I have have the sprite I need. IF I ever get around to doing something commercial, all I have to do is replace the images.

Dylan

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