Xenogears Battle Sprites

[Mortifier777]

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

No worries about the grid size brother... that guy Barack Obama loves to complain about minor details, who he think he is? lol

This can be easily fixed with Photoshop when making the spritesheet.

In one of these days i will begin to upload the sprites on here.

Cheers.