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Sprite pixelling |
Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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Quote: But you should never use The Gimp. I use Gimp, but I don't recommend it. It's only for the 1337. Seriously, I really wouldn't recommend it only because I like it. Too many hate it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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I did some messing around with MS Paint on Sunday, and got some alright results for my first try. But as other have pointed out it gets tedious. For me it got tedious at about the third 32x32 sprite. I really, really don't like pixelling, but I'm the only one who can do it for me, so I'll have to suffer through. Attached are the three frames I did for one sprite, and here is some code I made to look at how it animates
For some reason the pixels from the previous frame are still visible when the next frame is drawn, despite the clear_to_color(), and I don't understand this. It's also a crappy-looking thing, but I understand that I need practice. Note: the code looks for the Hero bitmap in a file named Characters, just saying that so no one says it won't load because they didn't look at the code EDIT: Crap, there's some attached code as well, but it isn't the right code, and I can't seem to remove it.
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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Well at first you could try draw_sprite. Then you should see whether there are some artifacts in the sprite itself - ussualy at the edges if the sprite. Sometimes when using tools which generate smooth lines (antialiased) magic pink gets other mixed with some alpha pixels and when saved produces different color. [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Quote: I use Gimp, but I don't recommend it. It's only for the 1337. Seriously, I really wouldn't recommend it only because I like it. Too many hate it. Gimp and Photoshop are great for what they are made for: photo editing. Pixeling is something completely different and they aren't geared toward that, so there are more efficient tools I'd look at before resorting to either of those. --> |
James Stanley
Member #7,275
May 2006
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'So you want to be a pixel artist?' is another good tutorial about drawing. It's mirrored all over the place and half of them are down most of the time. Just Google for it... |
Rampage
Member #3,035
December 2002
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Quote: 'So you want to be a pixel artist?' is another good tutorial about drawing. Is that the one from Tsugumo? That's the best I've seen. -R |
23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Quote: Is that the one from Tsugumo? Yup. -- |
Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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Here's the most recent version of Tsugumo's Tutorial series. --- 0xDB | @dennisbusch_de --- |
23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Oh wow, cool. I thought he stopped writing that ages ago. -- |
Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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Yes, basically that's what he did but apparantly he came back to it at the beginning of this year. --- 0xDB | @dennisbusch_de --- |
Trezker
Member #1,739
December 2001
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ZOMG!!!! Tsugumo continuation! People working on Allegro 5! Is hell freezing too? |
Paul Pridham
Member #250
April 2000
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For pixel art, use Graphics Gale: http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/ Animation, layers, sprite sheets, colour replacement, etc. ---- |
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