The Man with No Name Posted January 10, 2010 Hi boys... I want to create a custom sprite to me, but i have no idea of how to do this. I only things i know about this things are that it needs to be in bitmap format, the eight directions and the mirrored sprites... Can someone help me? 0 Share this post Link to post
Kappes Buur Posted January 10, 2010 The process of creating actor (player/monster) sprites has been documented numerous times here on the doonworld and the zdoom forums, by some dedicated people. While a search through both forums is labor intensive, it is also instructional. For inspiration you could visit the resources thread on the zdoom forum http://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=37 or the Realm667 Beastiary http://www.realm667.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=8&Itemid=136 Then, of course, there is the DECORATE aspect for new actors. For this have a look here http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=7956 or in the ZDoom Wiki. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Man with No Name Posted January 11, 2010 Ah thanks. But why are these things in the download section instead of editing section? 0 Share this post Link to post
Kappes Buur Posted January 11, 2010 The Man with No Name said:Ah thanks. But why are these things in the download section instead of editing section? I assume that you are referring to the actors in the BEASTIARY when you mention these things. Well, they are finished actors and my reason for linking to them was simply for you to go ahead and download some of them. Then you would load the wad file into XWE and reverse engineer it, to find out what makes it tick. You would find out how the rotations are sprited and how the behavior of the actor is set up with DECORATE. This is a sure fire way to find out how to make actors, whatever they may be, players, monsters, weapons, decorations etc. Once you know what the sprites are doing, then fire up your graphics program (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, Paint.net, Paint, whatever you use) and start spriting your own actors. And as I said, DECORATE is another aspect of actors. further links: http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20793 http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19406&hilit=sprite+tutorial 0 Share this post Link to post
The Man with No Name Posted January 12, 2010 When i said these things i wanted to mean: The process of creating actor (player/monster) sprites has been documented numerous times here on the doonworld and the zdoom forums documented on the download section. As a process of creating, i assume that you are referring about an editing process, not downloads. Whatever, thanks for the links and specialy for the patience. 0 Share this post Link to post