Using a whole spritesheet

[daimenj]

Hey everyone I started back up on openbor and I had a question. I used the search function and couldn't find anything on this. I've been cutting sprites one by one but is there a script that allows openbor to read frames off of a sprite sheet so that you don't have to cut them individually?

[Bloodbane]

 I'm afraid there's no such script.
 Moreover, there are different kind of sheet out there. Most of them have IDLE and WALK as the top left sprites but after that it's just totally random. Some has run, jump before attack sprites while some immediately go to attacking ones (either of preference or the character simply can't run and jump).

 Also, you probably won't use all sprites in sheet.
 Worse, most spritesheets have icon & texts pasted by the ripper to show his/her logo (can't imagine how this engine would handle these if it were able to read from spritesheet). Some even include edited sprites and alternate colors.

 You'd ended up editing the sheet but if you have time for that, you have time for cropping sprites too .
 And we haven't talked about offsetting yet.

 Sorry. Cropping sprite is best way to go.

[rafhot]

i use alfred spritesheet unpacker to cut the sprites automatic for me

http://www.alferdspritesheetunpacker.forkandbeard.co.uk/forkandBeard/apps/AlferdSpritesheetUnpacker/Screenshots.aspx



just drag and select the sprites you want and click and he cut everything

[daimenj]

Wow this program cuts a lot of the time for cutting sprites in half. Thanks for the info

[NickyP]

The only negative side to Alferd Spritesheet Unpacker is that it won't align the sprites, so you'll have to find the offset/bbox/attackbox for each individual frame. Mind you, that's not really a bad thing either. I mean yeah, it's easier on the coding side of things to just align the sprites yourself. But if you use a character editor like Obeditor or OpenBOR Stats, it's really easy.

EDIT: Now technically, you could just use the entire sheet for that character. If the individual sprites are spaced apart enough (I'd think at least 320x240 between each sprite), you could just use one sheet and have the offsets for where the sprites are on the sheet. But that would probably be more work than it's worth...

[daimenj]

Wow I haven't heard of any of these programs. I will check them out now

[NickyP]

Wow I haven't heard of any of these programs. I will check them out now

I personally go with Obeditor. It has its finicky parts and half-glitches, but beyond that, it's a dream come true. I don't even want to remember what modding was like for me without it.

I've never used OpenBOR Stats though. But I hear it's also really good. I just prefer obeditor because it's what I've been using for all these years.

[daimenj]

Is there a tutorial for obeditor? can't get it to load anything or maybe i'm just looking for the wrong type of file. Also I can't get my game to load. It says "failed to load palette"

this is what its giving me


**************** Done *****************

Failed to load palette from 'data/chars/sailormercury/stance/stance.png' in 'data/chars/SailorMercury/Ami.txt'.load_cached_model #scriptbuf: 485 bytes in 1 allocs
buffer_packfile: 243 bytes in 1 allocs
Total Leaked Bytes 728

[NickyP]

1. When you add a project in Obeditor, click on the folder that contains your Data folder, not your actual Data folder. When your project shows up on the list, click Edit Entities or Edit Levels. 

2. You probably need to enable truecolor mode. In your Data folder, create video.txt, and paste this into it:

Code: [Select]

ColourDepth 16bit
That should work...

[daimenj]

still bringing up the same error. When I do it in .gif it comes up but it's not transparent. Is there a way to make .gif images transparent?


Edit:
I got it fixed. Instead of having the unpacker cut the sprites as .png I changed it to .gif

[Bloodbane]

 You have to set right color as the 1st color which is the transparent color. Converting to gif is not enough, you have to ensure that the background color is the 1st color in the palette.

 BTW have you read this thread?

http://lavalit.com:8080/index.php/topic,2051.0.html

[daimenj]

I just read it. pretty cool I don't think I can use obeditor because it says I have to have linux for it to work. I'm choosing the folder with the data file in it for my project but it still says no valid models.txt file available.

Edit:
How exactly do you line the sprites up in obeditor? I can't drag the images or anything

[BeasTie]

@rafhot - thanks for the link I was looking for something like this ages ago, somehow diddn't find this app when I looked.

@ NickyP - Obstats is much better once you get used to it.

@damienj - there's a windows and linux version in the archive for obeditor, as well as the source code.  Make sure you are using the windows version.  - obeditor-win.tar.gz

[daimenj]

Got it. But I still can't get a smooth animation. The frames won't align. I even set the boxes to be the same and but the animation is still choppy

[Die_In_Fire]

I also uses Obeditor,but just to place offsets and boxes, and set animations. Can't save using it because corrupt the files having scripts command.

cannot understand Oborstats yet... 

@damienj maybe that means that you have problems with the offsets. Try correcting them and then try playing with delay command