How do you size sprites and objects correctly?

Audio and Graphics
#1

Hi there,

I’m trying to make a simple shoot 'em up (for practice, mostly) but I’m already kind of stuck on one of the early steps - how do you figure out what size to make the sprites? Is there a best practice for this?

So far I’ve used the iPhone 5 skin in the simulator to try to roughly estimate how big I want to make an object/sprite (and based on the 320 x 568 screen size) and then created blah, blah@2x, and blah@4x image sizes. But I don’t know what dimensions to put in the display.newImageRect(“images/badguy_”…imageInt…".png",50,54) line - is it supposed to be the smallest size? And is this the correct way to size objects?

Thanks!

#2

Yeah, pass the normal dimensions of the image and Corona will figure out (based on your config.lua) which size to select.    

http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/basics/configSettings/index.html

#3

Yeah, pass the normal dimensions of the image and Corona will figure out (based on your config.lua) which size to select.    

http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/basics/configSettings/index.html