Just haven’t gotten to it since I’d need to redraw the background tiles in Pixen.
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Luckily one of the tutorials I’m working on off explains how to make the world less grid-like. It definitely doesn’t create the illusion that the character is in a free-flowing world. Huge time-saver.Īs you can see from the screenshots, the tiles are very square and don’t look great when tiled. For more information, help, and keyboard shortcuts, see the introduction blog post. Maps can be created for a variety of formats including XML, JSON, CSS, and ImageMagick scripts. It makes generating sprite sheets incredibly easy. is an HTML5 tool for creating, packing, and modifying sprite sheets and texture atlases. Unfortunately there’s no support for layers.įor the sprite sheet I’m using TexturePacker Lite. I drew the grass and cliff background tiles using it. Inkscape: Not great for pixel art and unfortunately not too usable on OSX.If you’re on OSX, Pixen is definitely the way to go. Here’s a screenshot of what I have so far.įor the pixel art, I tried Inkscape, AeSprite and before stumbling upon Pixen. But I’ve definitely made improvements in terms of quality. A good chunk of that time was spent drawing and redrawing all the frames for the animation. In terms of the game engine, I mainly worked on improving the character animation and scrolling the background.
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Apparently the only option is to trick myself with a calendar full of red X’s. Unfortunately that’s just not how I work. Canvas tile grid, hover effects, single tilesheet, etc. Automatically downscale sprites for all devices Create high-resolution images only TexturePacker scales images Publish for all devices with a single click Prescaled images reduce runtime memory consumption increase the frame rate Automatically add all images: Drag and drop your complete asset folder into the Sprites Panel. I also need to render the tiles in multiple scales at the same time. Ideally I’d work on this project out of sheer compulsion. Im looking for a way to get seamless tiling working, where the tiles are sprites off a TexturePacker sprite sheet, and the rendering is done with Marmalades IwGXs streams. It definitely adds up and I’m finding it easier to get started. Still not where I want to be, but I’m happy that I put in at least an hour each day this week. Thanks to the “Don’t Break the Chain” method, I made decent progress on the game engine this week. Math RPG - Part 3: Pixel art December 01, 2013
In case someone has a similar need, I thought I would post it here for the community. For example, the image in this post goes from 3,427 bytes to 748 bytes (at original size, of course). It is in JS (Node), and uses a couple of dependencies to make the generated image as small as possible. This is certainly not the cleanest code, and it could definitely be optimized, but it does the job just fine. It seems that there are quite a bit of options out there to manipulate sprites and textures (things like TexturePacker maybe), but they seemed a bit overkill since what I needed was fairly simple.Īs often, I ended up coding the thing myself. This is a fairly time-consuming process, and I was wondering if there would be some ways to automate it. What I used to do next was to painstakingly pick individual tiles one by one, and then manually add them to a new sprite sheet. I usually end up with a giant messy image file, with a lot of duplicated tiles and a lot of small-ish variations. I am more of a designer I guess, so when I am working on tile-based games, I often work directly in Photoshop, copying and pasting tiles when they already exist, and creating new ones on the fly when needed ( I know that this might seem the exact opposite of other people’s workflow hehe). On the Borders tab: Check the 'Trim Sprite' and 'Trim Cells' options.
Set 'Frames' to 'All frames', unless you only wish to export a sub-set of tags. TL DR: I made a small script that takes a grid-based image as a parameter and creates a tile sheet, getting rid of all duplicated tiles. On the Sprite tab: Set 'Layers' to 'Visible layers'.
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