What is a sprite editor ?

[1dumbguy]

Does it come with vb6. Or some kind of paint programs ?

[plenderj]

Well, sprites are just pictures used to represent characters in games.
For example, the game called 'Craft' on my website, or Duke Nukem 3D, Sentience, or any other game that uses pictures/bitmaps to represent characters.

And what a sprite editor does is just allow you to edit them.

There may be specific requirements for sprites in certain games, thus the reason there are specific sprite editors created for some games.

That help ?

[Zaei]

Usually sprites are any 2d graphic in a game. Health meters, crosshairs, characters, trees sometimes, toilets in Duke 3D... they are all sprites. Most often, sprites ALWAYS face directly at the player, so it looks the same, no matter from what angle you are looking at it (go behind the toilet in Duke, you'll see what i mean =).

Z.

[kedaman]

spites are billboarded surfaces

[plenderj]

Thats a pretty broad description ya got there ked

[1dumbguy]

Good , I was hoping I wouldn't need anything else. I found a game tutorial I was going to try it this weekend. When it stated he put the sprites in a sprite editor I hit the panic button.
Thanks
Bob

[Behemoth]

Originally posted by plenderj
Well, sprites are just pictures used to represent characters in games.
For example, the game called 'Craft' on my website, or Duke Nukem 3D, Sentience, or any other game that uses pictures/bitmaps to represent characters.

And what a sprite editor does is just allow you to edit them.

There may be specific requirements for sprites in certain games, thus the reason there are specific sprite editors created for some games.

That help ?

ho hum

*whistles inconspicuously*

[plenderj]

[kedaman]