Scratch

Actually, there is a way to use your paint program to make sprites.

You have to run your project in Scratch, not on the web, but once you have a drawing you like, you Right-Click with the mouse (if you are using a PC, something else for Macs) and one of the options that pops up is "Grab Screen Region for New Sprite".  Using that, you can create a new sprite from your drawing.

If you want to use your new sprite in a different project, that can be done too.  It requires that you export the sprite to a file and then import it to the other project.

Last edited by Paddle2See (2008-04-10 05:51:29)

Thanks!

The original question, I think, pertained to having a player draw their own sprite and then use that sprite, all whilst playing the same game, correct?

If so, then sadly it isn't really possible.  You dould have a customisable player-sprite with clever use of multiple sprites to create the main character, but you couldn't actually draw "in-game" and then animate that drawing.

No -anything "painted" usign the pen settings is fixed to the background and cannot move.

The only way to simulate this would be to allow the player to draw his "sprite" by the placing of a number of small coloured sprites that, at game start, all move according to the same movement variables so that they appear to be one big sprite.