[tsc-devel] Re: Do we use sprite sheets at all?

datahead | Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:44:42 UTC

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[quote]I'd just like to add to this that using sprite sheets raises the level of knowledge required by new contributing artists.[/quote]

I honestly don't think the concept would be too hard for new artists.  It's also a staple of 2D platforming design.
Some people probably would mess up the dimensions of the sprites in the sheet (much like people use the wrong branch when filing PR's), requiring rework sometimes.  This sort of thing is inevitable with about any procedure that must be exactly followed.

[quote]For more complex graphics (such as the Aarmy Senior boss I'm working on) it also raises the computing horsepower needed as you need to be opening a file with all of the animation frames at once rather than just one. Generally this isn't likely to be much of an issue, as most graphics are fairly simple and most people have fairly powerful computers, relative to Inkscape requirements.[/quote]

The benefit of saving processing when the game is run by players tends to outweigh this, though the team has come to the conclusion that the savings aren't enough to warrant the code architecture changes required for this.

I'd still be interested in getting more opinions from more programmers out there on this question.  Grimshaw seemed to agree with Luiji, though it's always good to explore possibilities.

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