korteck Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 No, I'm not talking about the soft drink. I have this little animator program that can use sprites. I know sprites are two dimensional pictures, usually with transparency, that are used a lot in video games. I'd like to use PDN to make transparent pictures to use as sprites, but the animator program only accepts BMP and JPG formats. Can somebody fill me in on this subject. I've been reading everything I can find for the last two days and I can't get the answers I need. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastodonant Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 check ur messages becuz i said the name of the thing and im not sure if thats allowed here so i pmed the answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korteck Posted January 14, 2007 Author Share Posted January 14, 2007 Thanks mastodonant. That is indeed the name of the animator program, but I need to know how to make and save a sprite. Since the animator program only accepts BMP and JPG's, saving a transparent picture as a PNG wouldn't help. The animator wouldn't accept it if I did. Sprites must be different than a regular BMP or JPG because the animator already accepts those formats as backgrounds. I'm thinking that sprites must have transparency...and the only way I know to save a transparent picture is a PNG with paint.net. I'm hoping someone will know a lot about sprites and tell me what format they use, how to save in that format, and maybe even clear things up if I have the wrong idea about sprites in the first place. EDIT:Hey, never mind. I finally figured it out. You just cut out an image, save it as a BIP or JPG, and when you load it into the program as a sprite, the program (or something) removes the BMP or JPG background and it becomes transparent again. Feel free to lock this one up Rick. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastodonant Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Thanks mastodonant. That is indeed the name of the animator program, but I need to know how to make and save a sprite. Since the animator program only accepts BMP and JPG's, saving a transparent picture as a PNG wouldn't help. The animator wouldn't accept it if I did.Sprites must be different than a regular BMP or JPG because the animator already accepts those formats as backgrounds. I'm thinking that sprites must have transparency...and the only way I know to save a transparent picture is a PNG with paint.net. I'm hoping someone will know a lot about sprites and tell me what format they use, how to save in that format, and maybe even clear things up if I have the wrong idea about sprites in the first place. i havent used the program in a while but im pretty sure if you save a image as JPEG and upload sprite, than upload image it will work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 check ur messages becuz i said the name of the thing and im not sure if thats allowed here so i pmed the answer Why wouldn't it be allowed? Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korteck Posted January 14, 2007 Author Share Posted January 14, 2007 i havent used the program in a while but im pretty sure if you save a image as JPEG and upload sprite, than upload image it will workHaha, we posted at the same time. I just beat you by seconds. Thanks again mastodoant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastodonant Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 check ur messages becuz i said the name of the thing and im not sure if thats allowed here so i pmed the answer Why wouldn't it be allowed? idk some sites don't like advertising about other programs but to korteck no prob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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