How to make a sprite animation ?

sebitttas · February 27, 2012, 6:32pm

Hi I have been looking around the web and searching for how to make sprite. Does anybody here know what software works really good on making sprite animation like the Corona examples. I really need to know for my game is very important. [import]uid: 17058 topic_id: 22516 reply_id: 322516[/import]

peach_pellen · February 27, 2012, 10:21pm

You can do this with any program that lets you create images, from Paint to Photoshop - you just have to space things out correctly.

That said there are some third party tools making sprite creation easier, I haven’t used them so can’t advise but maybe worth doing some research on that.

Peach [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 22516 reply_id: 89801[/import]

iNSERT.CODE · February 28, 2012, 12:56am

You can use any decent image editor like Photoshop (paid) or GIMP (Free @ http://www.gimp.org/) to layout your sprites frame by frame by adjusting each slightly until you get the desired effect. Then export them to a spritesheet with Zwoptex (http://zwoptexapp.com/) or similar.

Another option would be to use something like Flash if you have it to create the animations with tweens and then export as a PNG sequence. [import]uid: 74503 topic_id: 22516 reply_id: 89833[/import]

sebitttas · February 28, 2012, 3:39am

@peach thanks I did not know other drawing software can do that.

@iNSERT thanks for the Zwoptex suggestion I did not know about that I will buy that this week [import]uid: 17058 topic_id: 22516 reply_id: 89864[/import]

Danny · February 28, 2012, 4:56pm

Don’t rule out TexturePacker! http://www.texturepacker.com/

I haven’t tried zwoptex so I can’t really comment on it, however I use texture packer religiously for my personal projects and it makes life so much easier. Fast, efficient and easy to use. [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 22516 reply_id: 90016[/import]

sebitttas · February 28, 2012, 5:04pm

@Danny ok I will try texture packer because I’am really disapointed with Zwoptex [import]uid: 17058 topic_id: 22516 reply_id: 90019[/import]

Naomi · February 28, 2012, 10:20pm

@sebitttas, if you’re using Flash to create animation, you may want to try Spriteloq too. It’s an awesome tool that imports SWF and spits out sprite sheet (in PNG format) together with data lua file. It also supports dynamic screen resolution. Once I started using it, creating sprite sheets and integrating them into my project became super duper easy.

Naomi

http://developer.anscamobile.com/forums/spriteloq-flash-corona®-exporter

http://www.loqheart.com/spriteloq/ [import]uid: 67217 topic_id: 22516 reply_id: 90117[/import]