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#1 2011-09-12 16:47:21

Locomule
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Registered: 2009-08-24
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quick tip for adding multiple sprite costumes

I do sprite-stamping projects that require 100+ sprites that all have the same (often huge) set of costumes. Instead of duplicating them one at a time via drag and drop, I use an outside editor to combine all the images into a single animated gif. Forget that it is an animated gif, the important thing here is that dragging that gif onto a sprite's costume list will add each image (or animation layer) as a separate costume.

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#2 2011-09-12 20:10:38

Jonathanpb
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Registered: 2008-07-25
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Re: quick tip for adding multiple sprite costumes

Couldn't you just duplicate a sprite (right-click on its icon in the list and select Duplicate)? But eh the .gif method is really cool  tongue


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#3 2011-09-13 09:13:17

Locomule
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Re: quick tip for adding multiple sprite costumes

Yeah, that works for creating/copying sprites but not if you need to go back and edit their costumes later (after they've been uniquely scripted)


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#4 2011-09-13 10:15:54

scimonster
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Registered: 2010-06-13
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Re: quick tip for adding multiple sprite costumes

Nice trick! Another one is to simply select all the wanted images and drag them over the sprite.  smile

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#5 2011-09-13 10:52:15

JSO
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Registered: 2007-06-23
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Re: quick tip for adding multiple sprite costumes

scimonster wrote:

Nice trick! Another one is to simply select all the wanted images and drag them over the sprite.  smile

... which works a bit better because it is less work, every image is easily editable and you don't lose so much quality to .GIF compression  smile


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