Sprite Design
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Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 5:14pm
Topic: Sprite Design
Posted By: randomblink
Subject: Sprite Design
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 10:00am
If you were going to create a generic sprite design that would work for
most computer games (ie Action, Mystery, RPG, Platform, etc), what
would be the various sprites you think would be necessary for:
1) A Character
2) A Vehicle
3) A Building
4) Equipment / Item
For instance.
I think that for a wheeled-ground vehicle, you should have:
1) Motionless
2) Idling
3) Moving
4) Turning
5) Jumping
Further, I think you should have those 5 sprites in 2-5 states of
disrepair to allow for a vehicle that has been damaged and can still
perform at those levels. 2 states of disrepair for a simple game (Fine,
Hurt), 5 or more for a game that would show fire-damage, bullet-damage,
etc... Obviously more intense on the graphics that the 2 states.
Also, you should have one set of DEAD sprites for when the vehicle is
completely demolished. Maybe even a couple different versions of the
dead sprite for different styles of death... fire, exploded, smashed,
etc...
This post is to gauge what the pixeljoint members see as necessary sprites for a game... I'm just curious...
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 10:49am
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a 3 frame animated sprite, 3 tiles.
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Posted By: randomblink
Date Posted: 12 December 2005 at 7:10am
Never mind... I guess I didn't explain it well..
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 12 December 2005 at 8:19am
i could make a fighter sprite with 6 frames, including idle attack moving defend and jump. so that would be my mininum?
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Posted By: randomblink
Date Posted: 12 December 2005 at 8:58am
Here's the thing...
My reason for asking is...
I am working on a game. Currently, I am the only artist (sad, I know).
I want to create a template for sprites, so that as I come up with a
character, I can create a sprite sheet, and do the sprites I have the
energy / patience for now, and as I find the time or desire, I can
scroll through the sprite sheets and see which sprites are needed for
which characters.
For instance...
Right now, for all CHARACTER sprite packages? I do the following:
Keep in mind, these are ISO, so I do a front and back of each
1) Standing
2) Sitting
3) Kneeling
4) Walking
5) Running
6) Striking with a Melee Weapon
7) Firing a Pistol-sized weapon
8) Firing a Rifle-sized weapon
9) Casting a spell
10) Taking Damage
11) Wounded
12) Dead
Now then...
For instance. I know I should add in Jumping. So that would be a generic sprite pose / stance to create... but what else?
If YOU were building a game, would you want to have poses for reading a
book, using the phone, or playing guitar? What would be too much, and
why? What would be the minimum...
I am trying to come up with what is necessary and what is nonsense.
Personally, I think there is a decent generic list of ISO poses to
create, but I just haven't seen that list... Do you have it?
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 12 December 2005 at 10:49am
i think it varies per game
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 12 December 2005 at 12:41pm
just put in sprite sheet on google images and theres are tonnes of all
the actions one would ever need.
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