Wishing for diagonal sprites.

[Kraven]

Hello, I was wondering if there are any plugins or if one can be made for diagonal sprites? This would allow for a sprite sheet to have 8 rows of character sprites, one for each of the 8 directions.

Thanks!
Kraven

Example sprite sheet by www.programmingmind.com
http://programmingmind.com/system/attachments/51/small/walk.png?1333795732

 

[Macro]

https://github.com/Hudell/mv-plugins/blob/master/OrangeMovement/SuperOrangeMovementEx.js Allows 8 directions.

As for making a full sheet I don't know if that's possible yet. Maybe? I think the way people did it before was to have separate sprite sheets for when up+left was pressed, the sprite sheets would be switched to a diagonal sheet as long as the buttons were held.

Not sure how that would work with mouse movement though. I've never tried it before in the first place, so I'm not sure.

 

[legendreef1]

just request it from scripters

 

[Amysaurus]

@legendreef1: This is already a request thread. Please try and add more the discussion next time. ^^

@Macro: I'm not positive how it would work with mouse movement, but yeah, you're right about the different character sheets. Basically, the diagonal movements become a sheet all their own. Here's the usual layout that I've seen:

 

[eivl]

You would as i understand the code, rewrite the entire core aspect of the game, you would then if that was not enough solve the problem that you do not have 8 directions to move but only 4, solution to the latter would be to subdivide the tile in smaller tiles and give the player the option to move one small tile at the time.

When you get this to work, how would you do it with a touch device? holding two buttons on the keyboard is all fine, but you can not do that with mouse or touch input.

The idea is a nice one, i just think it is not as useful as you might think since it will be so limited in use in ration of how time consuming it would be to create.

 

[Stapleton]

Edit: Hudell has made already..

 

[eivl]

Edit: Hudell has made already..

No, only direction not sprites, still uses 4 dir sprites