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Making extangeable armor move with your character

Making extangeable armor move with your character, xD Lets discuss!

frostyraver	25 May, 2009 - 07:01 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 21 Apr, 2009 Posts: 73 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	Here's a subject I'd like to touch up on, I've looked around on google and only found 1 article that touches this subject well http://stackoverflow.com/questions/402541/...ar-in-a-2d-game How do you go about making interexchangeable armor move when your character moves? The armor has to be exchangeable, same with the character features. I have this type of thing going in my BattleArena game going but it's only an image overlay. This post has been edited by frostyraver: 25 May, 2009 - 07:04 AM
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SixOfEleven	RE: Making Extangeable Armor Move With Your Character 25 May, 2009 - 07:47 AM Post #2
Code Guru Joined: 18 Oct, 2008 Posts: 2,905 Thanked: 165 times Dream Kudos: 725 Expert In: C, C#, XNA, Game Programming, Programming Concepts My Contributions	QUOTE(frostyraver @ 25 May, 2009 - 09:01 AM) Here's a subject I'd like to touch up on, I've looked around on google and only found 1 article that touches this subject well http://stackoverflow.com/questions/402541/...ar-in-a-2d-game How do you go about making interexchangeable armor move when your character moves? The armor has to be exchangeable, same with the character features. I have this type of thing going in my BattleArena game going but it's only an image overlay. This is similar to the difficulties faced when you are doing tiling. Image overlay is a good method to use. What you might think about doing is like what more advanced image processing and merge the layers down to create the sprite. Then, when the player changes something about the sprite, get the separate parts of the sprite and merge them to create a single sprite. I'm not an animation expert so I can't really help with that. You could try something similar to bone animation in 3D. When the sprite moves, each 'bone' in the sprite would move in a specific pattern and the armor/weapon would do the same.
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WolfCoder	RE: Making Extangeable Armor Move With Your Character 25 May, 2009 - 12:44 PM Post #3
ヒヒヒー Joined: 5 May, 2005 Posts: 5,130 Thanked: 29 times Dream Kudos: 1575 Expert In: ゲームのプログラム、かわいい My Contributions	Ah, this is something designers have been doing since the NES. You get a new weapon, so it looks cool if you can see yourself holding it. BannedStory does a good job at showing you how all the characters are made. Everything is a part and fitted to the character carefully. Me? I was going to make a sprite the same size as the character, or proportionally bigger/smaller so that she's holding the correct weapon. I do this by simply loading a flattened version of the character in question, and drawing over it in a new layer to help myself match it all up.
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stayscrisp	RE: Making Extangeable Armor Move With Your Character 25 May, 2009 - 02:28 PM Post #4
Mouth->Insert(Foot); Joined: 14 Feb, 2008 Posts: 1,379 Thanked: 53 times Dream Kudos: 300 My Contributions	Some 2D games use sprites that are split into various different parts, these parts can then be interchanged to fit with specific weapon sets. For example if a character carried a weapon in their right arm you could make this separate from the main sprite and change it accordingly. Same with armor, separate the torso then change between it.
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frostyraver	RE: Making Extangeable Armor Move With Your Character 24 Jun, 2009 - 01:59 PM Post #5
D.I.C Head Joined: 21 Apr, 2009 Posts: 73 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	QUOTE(stayscrisp @ 25 May, 2009 - 02:28 PM) Some 2D games use sprites that are split into various different parts, these parts can then be interchanged to fit with specific weapon sets. For example if a character carried a weapon in their right arm you could make this separate from the main sprite and change it accordingly. Same with armor, separate the torso then change between it. Yeah I kinda understand how this is all put together now, I've applied it (to somewhat) extent in my game.
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stayscrisp	RE: Making Extangeable Armor Move With Your Character 24 Jun, 2009 - 02:17 PM Post #6
Mouth->Insert(Foot); Joined: 14 Feb, 2008 Posts: 1,379 Thanked: 53 times Dream Kudos: 300 My Contributions	Great! Any screenshots?
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frostyraver	RE: Making Extangeable Armor Move With Your Character 24 Jun, 2009 - 04:19 PM Post #7
D.I.C Head Joined: 21 Apr, 2009 Posts: 73 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	QUOTE(stayscrisp @ 24 Jun, 2009 - 02:17 PM) Great! Any screenshots? http://kudmipz.org/frostydowns/Downloads/B...nav0.0.1.0c.zip Not releasing the source as of yet, Check my tutorials I explain how to go about alot of things. It's all very basic skills to accomplish. Attached thumbnail(s)
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frostyraver	RE: Making Extangeable Armor Move With Your Character 15 Sep, 2009 - 07:59 AM Post #8
D.I.C Head Joined: 21 Apr, 2009 Posts: 73 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	QUOTE(frostyraver @ 24 Jun, 2009 - 04:19 PM) QUOTE(stayscrisp @ 24 Jun, 2009 - 02:17 PM) Great! Any screenshots? http://kudmipz.org/frostydowns/Downloads/B...nav0.0.1.0c.zip Not releasing the source as of yet, Check my tutorials I explain how to go about alot of things. It's all very basic skills to accomplish. With this also I made separate things for the head/shoulder/legs/arms/feet, I might look up form graphics, or fool around with transparency some, It's works nontheless.
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