Xenogears Battle Sprites

[rufaswan]

Grabbed a random monster and put it in Sheet Maker. Is there are a reason why the boxes for each frame have a different size?

I don't have the sprite width and height before creating the canvas, so I set it to something really high, like 768x768. Then I trimmed off the excessive space around the sprite.

Regardless what is the frame size, the center of the frame is the center point 0,0 . If you align every frame to this point, you can animate them correctly.

Is there any gravity option in Sheet Maker to center them? montage (from ImageMagick) have "-gravity center" option to center the frame.

If the space is bothering you, you can use mogrify -trim to (blindly) remove them.

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/#controls
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comman...s.php#trim

Here are the commands and the result

Code:

# blindly remove empty borders from the image (like "Autocrop Image" on GIMP)
mogrify -trim +repage -strip 0*.png

# tiled all images into 8-columns and save it as "sheet.png"
montage -geometry '1x1<' -background none -tile 8x -gravity center -strip  0*.png  sheet.png

As you can tell, the sprites is no longer aligned. They are not at the same floor level anymore.

But this would be what I'll do when making a spritesheet. You guys can do a better job than me.

Take care,
- Rufas