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For sprites images, lots of people are using spriters-resource.com for their projects. Ofcourse, you can always use my scratchresources.tk scratch resources site, wich contains unscripted and scripted sprites, sounds and even tutorials 

Last edited by JSO (2008-01-26 15:07:21)

JSO wrote:

For sprites images, lots of people are using spriters-resource.com for their projects. Ofcourse, you can always use my scratchresources.tk scratch resources site, wich contains unscripted and scripted sprites, sounds and even tutorials 

Hey, JSO, I notice that a couple of the sprites on your site are actually from Riener's Tilesets, but don't appear to be credited.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Okay here is what you do!
    right click on the sheet you want to download and save it to the desktop
    then go to scratch and click on the folder and select the sheet u saved!
    next if it is too big and the size of sprites have been shrunken, go to paint programn on your computer!
    Then click on Edit, select paste from and click on the sheet u just saved!
    then get rid of the other sprites on the sheet u dont want! that will get rid of the   space u dont need!
    After that save as whatever go back to scratch and do the second step i told u to do open up the file
   if it is still too big u might have to get rid of other sprites
   do  for all those sheets that re to big process of elimination !

- lanie624 

thank you again. I figured you would have to do something like that but it just seemed so cumbersome and time consuming. I thought there might be an easier way. Thank you so much for taking your time to help out a newbie.

Mayhem wrote:

Hey, JSO, I notice that a couple of the sprites on your site are actually from Riener's Tilesets, but don't appear to be credited.

Just thought I'd mention it.

I haven't tought about that... I credited in the game, and then exported the sprite, so i was forgotten to credit.

But how can i credit? Adding another costume with the credits in it? I'll try that...

cbateach wrote:

thank you again. I figured you would have to do something like that but it just seemed so cumbersome and time consuming. I thought there might be an easier way. Thank you so much for taking your time to help out a newbie.

There is a *slightly* easier way.  On the Reiner's Tileset website there is a downloadable program called "Tilecutter".
It lets you specify a size of "cut out", which makes it much easier to chop sheets of sprites into individual costumes.

There are two different issues here:
  1) how to import single costumes (which Toasty refers to)
  2) how to import an animation that has been stored as a sprite sheet (which Lanie624 and Mayhem refer to)

Any image (from a digital camera, from the web, scanned from student artwork, ...) can be used as a single costume, and I recommend that approach for providing sprites to beginning scratch programmers.  It can be exciting to put yourself into a game, even a simple game.

Having pre-generated animations may look more polished, but I think that the students actually learn less and have less sense of accomplishment that way.

My students have generally preferred drawing stick figures or modifying the scratch-provided sprites to get what they want, rather than using someone else's ideas.