GubiD

Welcome to the forums. Wow, it sure has been quiet around here lately. :)

Welcome Gabe. Your game looks great. That introduction is pretty sweet. I have to ask though, is that ripped from something else? It looks like a anime or something at parts.

Welcome to the community! Hope to see you around.

I have to agree. I believe what he is saying is that he would like the ability to play 'pin the tail on the donkey' with his sprites. Basically you have a Body, Head, Arms, Legs, Weapons etc. Each of these being an independent piece. You can then select say the body, and set an 'anchor point' from which it attaches to the body. Then you can make animations by moving these peices etc.

So you could overlay images in order to create a full sprite.. piece by piece.
Best way I can explain it is like this..

You have a torso, you attach an bicep to that, you attach a forearm to that, you attach a hand to that, you set a sword to the hand. You can then set the first frame of a 'animation' to rotate (from the anchor point) the bicep over 5 frames to a new position which is 50 degrees different than it started. It of course, auto adjust all the child 'anchors' at their current rotation to the parent. Not to say that you cannot set more than one to animate at the same time though. They would need to have the ability to set one piece in front or behind of the other so as to provide the ability to make them semi 3d etc. I think this would be a great feature.

A good example of this being used in a game would be vandal hearts..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...;list=PLB9774DFE5FC11A43 at about 6:11. While these sprites are well blended together, you can easily tell that their weapons are super imposed onto the bodies at a certain anchor point. This anchor point being the front of a bow for archers, and the handle of a sword for the others.

It basically gives you alot more room to animate things with less actual spriting.
I hope this helps!

Very cool. I would really like to play with this next version. My custom tilesets have been painfully slow :(