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Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share. Sprites are simple 2D objects that have graphical images (called textures) on them. Unity uses sprites by default when the engine is in 2D mode. When viewed in 3D space, sprites will appear to be paper-thin, because they have no Z-width. Sprites always face the camera at a perpendicular angle unless rotated in 3D space.
A Sprite is an image, or a series of sub-images, that you assign to Objects. You can use Sprites to represent Objects in the game, such as the player (a ship or a character), explosions, walls, score displays, or anything you want in your game.
When a Sprite consists of a series of images, those images are known as sub-images, and they play continuously, as if they were mini-movies. That can give the appearance of a plane’s propellers rotating, an animated explosion, and so forth. Each sub-image within a Sprite is named consecutively (image 0, image 1, image 2, and so on), as shown in this figure.
Just as in programming, which starts counting at 0, the sub-image numbering starts at 0 as well.
If you don’t want the Sprite to play continuously, you can tell GameMaker to display a specific sub-image of your choice. You can even tell GameMaker to choose a sub-image at random.
Loading and creating sprites
To load a Sprite that already exists, follow these steps:
- Click the icon that looks like Pac-Man from the icon menu (see this figure).The Sprite Properties window appears.
- Click the Load Sprite button (refer to this figure).A navigation menu opens from which you can find an image on your computer.
Create a sprite from scratch
To create a new Sprite from scratch, follow these steps:
- Click the icon that looks like Pac-Man from the icon menu.The Sprite Properties window appears.
- Click the Edit Sprite button in the Sprite Properties window.The Sprite Editor window appears.
- Choose File→New.The Create a New Sprite dialog box appears.
- In the Width and Height fields, type in the dimensions you want the Sprite to be.
- Click OK.A new Sprite, which consists solely of a transparent background at this point, appears in the Sprite Editor. You can now double-click this Sprite to open the image editor from which you can actually draw the Sprite.
To create a sub-image, you can choose one of the Create an Empty Image icons in the Sprite Editor to add the sub-image either before the current one or at the end. A new, blank sub-image appears in the Sprite Editor.
Editing sprites
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GameMaker has a built-in Image Editor (see this figure) that you can use to edit Sprites. To access the Image Editor, click Edit Sprite from the Sprite Properties window. Then double-click the image that you want to edit.
The in-software manual goes into detail on the Image Editor. Just press F1 in GameMaker to access the manual. Then choose the Index, search for “image editor,” and then choose Display at the bottom of the window.
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Solex moter manual. Sprite objects are the most often used objects in GDevelop.
A sprite object allows us to display an image or to play a series of images as an animation. It can be used for many things in our games like buttons, characters or platforms. Anything that can be represented with an image can be a sprite object.
Creating a sprite object
In order to add a sprite to your scene, select the “Click to add an object” option located on the right at the bottom of the Objects list.
A new panel will open that will show the different types of objects available in GDevelop.
Choose “Sprite” from the list to create a new sprite object in your game scene.
This selection will open up the object properties window. In this window, you will see a few properties of the sprite object.
Adding an animation
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An animation allows you to add an image or series of images to the sprite object. To add an animation, click the add animation button.
This will expand the current dialog box and show you a wide variety of options you can tweak.
Adding an image to the animation
We can add images to the animation of our object by clicking on the plus symbol.
This will open the file explorer so that you can browse through the files and choose a suitable image for your animation. After choosing the image, you will see the image being displayed in the window.
Collision and points
You can customise the collision area of your sprite using the Edit Hitboxes at the bottom of the dialog. In this, you can set the area to be taken into consideration during a collision. You can read more about collision masks here.
Beside the Edit Hitboxes option, you will find the Edit Points option at the bottom of the sprite properties dialog. This option allows us to have additional reference points for an object. These reference points can be used in events when needed. Read more about points in sprites here.
Adding multiple animations
An object might sometimes require to have more than one animations. To add animations, click the “Add animation” button in the same way that we did it the first time. This feature allows us to easily separate the different animations.
Later, we can switch between the animations using events.
Naming the animation
At the top of the animation section in the window, you will see a field beside “Animation #” with grayed out “Optional animation name” written in it. To enter a name for your animation, click on the field and enter the name.
In objects with multiple animations, you may find it difficult to differentiate between animations without names. It is generally a good practice to use animation name for objects with multiple animations.If we don't enter a name we need to use the animation number to refer to this animation.
Adding multiple images in an animation
To add multiple images to an animation, you can select all the images from the explorer and add them to the animation.
Images will be played in the same order as displayed.
Repeating the animation
By default, every animation plays only once, which means that the animation stops as soon as its last frame finishes. To repeat the animation, we can “loop” the animation. We can set the animation to “loop” by clicking the repeat icon.
Once an animation is set to loop, it is going to play continuously.
Setting animation time
The speed of the animation can be set by changing the value by the clock icon.
The value entered in the field is the time elapsed between two consecutive frames. The default value is 0.08 seconds. For faster playback use lower animation time while, for slower playback, use high animation time
Naming the object
At the top of the dialog, you can see the name of the object in the “Object Name” field. The name of the object usually describes the content of an object which makes it easy to distinguish from other sprites.
Adding object to the scene
To add the sprite object to our scene just select it and click in the scene to add an instance of the object to our scene.
Your new sprite is now complete, but you still need to add it to your game scene. Click on the new sprite in the Object list. Next, click on the scene where you want to add the sprite. You will now see your sprite added to the scene. You can add multiple “instances” of your sprite to your game screen. Simply repeat the process for adding the first sprite.
Using multiple animations with events
After creating multiple animations, each with their own unique set of images, you can use events to switch between animations. Setting the animation time between 0 - 1 will ensure it stays active when using events.
Using a negative animation time disables the event actions.Do not use negative values.
When you have set multiple animations for an object, you can use the events tab to “Change the animation (by name)”. This is controlled in the “Add action” section of the condition. It will allow you to switch to the correct animation whenever the condition used in the “Add condition” section is true.
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As advised before, use animation names for multiple animations in an object to easily differentiate between them.
To add an action to change animation using animation name, choose the “Change the animation (by name)” condition.
Then put that name within the “Animation name” field surrounded by quotes.
For more event details, follow the tutorials here.
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gdevelop5/objects/sprite.txt · Last modified: 2019/07/03 04:28 by piyushpalawat99
How To Create Sprites For Games In Photoshop
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