So i was looking at some bitmaps in particles and saw that they had several different variants in one bitmap, i assumed that this was for bitmap animation. i was wandering how i was to go about making one bitmap have several variants. the example i'll give is bullet casing.


That's all i need and hope to hear back soon


GE

http://www.modacity.net/forums/entry.php?30-Ifafudafi-makes-a-particle-effect

I forward you to the excellent MrIfafudafi for this one.
As far as I can tell, stacking them horizontally is for animated particles, and vertically is so you can have a number of different bitmaps under one file - e.g. weapon pickup icons.

Hope this is of help!

Thanks you, sir. Greatly appreciated

1. Don't sign your posts. Please? It looks bad


2. You seperate each by a blue barrier, I believe.

Thank you for the help, and advice.





Quick question. i have run into a place where i don't know what to do. in this tutorial in one place it says my question is, how to i change the parameters of a bitmap?
Edited by grunt_eater on Nov 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM

Change parameters... ITS GUERILLA TIME! Open the .bitmap with guerilla and under that type of bitmap, select sprite.

Lol yeah i figured it out. probable should have posted that......


....Thanks for the help anyway :D


'nother question. um how do i set it up so that there are more then one bitmap in the bitmaps section of the bitmap itself? like if you open a bitmap and click show bitmap in there there will be a drop down where you can select multiple actual bitmaps
Edited by grunt_eater on Nov 14, 2011 at 06:00 PM

Umm, tool compiels it auaetomorticarly when u have the blue borders.


E: Also something gotta do with the sprite budget size.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Nov 14, 2011 at 06:42 PM

That depends on a number of things; if you set a sprite size of, say, 256x256, it means it will try and fit as many of your sprites on to a sprite page of those dimensions. So if you have lots of sprites, it will be on many pages.

Okay, i gotcha, thanks :)