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01-10-2016, 02:05 AM
Hi everyone,
So I am extremely new to sprites and am wondering about a few things.
What I am trying to do is get all the sprites used in pokemon yellow. I currently have all of the pokemon that have been separated into individual sprites. I however am looking for all the 'extra' stuff that makes up the world, like tables, chairs, bushes ect.
If I understand correctly I can get all of these from
this tilepack and then separate the individual sprites. Once I have these I can then apply a texture over them to get the different colours.
So my question is how do I actually go about extracting the individual sprites and then applying textures to them. Ideally if I could use either Ubuntu (unix) or OS X as I don't have windows but if necessary I can get it.
Alternatively if anyone has already done this it would be great if I could get it from them.
Thanks for the help!
You could probably use GIMP to split the tiles using something like the Guillotine tool. Do you want them all as separate images?
Not sure what you mean by applying textures to the sprites. Do you mean colouring them? That's something you'd probably have to do manually, Pokemon R/B was just black and white.
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(01-10-2016, 03:07 AM)puggsoy Wrote: You could probably use GIMP to split the tiles using something like the Guillotine tool. Do you want them all as separate images?
Not sure what you mean by applying textures to the sprites. Do you mean colouring them? That's something you'd probably have to do manually, Pokemon R/B was just black and white.
Thanks for the reply puggsoy.
Yes I do mean I want them all as separate images. I know I could use gimp but I was wondering if there is not perhaps an easier way i.e something that does it automatically.
And yes I do mean colouring them. How would I go about doing this. What I want to be able to do is create something like
this. Would I also need to use gimp and colour manually?
A script could be made to extract all the tiles. I'm not sure if one exists but I can give it a shot in the next couple of days. I've made scripts before, but it's been a while.
As for the colours, you would have to go through each tile and choose which 4 colours to use. You wouldn't need to colour every single pixel individually (you could use colour selection and then fill the selections), but you would have to go through every single tile, and then replace the 4 shades of grey with the 4 colours you want for that tile. Tedious, but I can't think of any other way of doing it since the colours vary for each tile.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. -Mary Pickford
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(01-10-2016, 03:28 AM)puggsoy Wrote: A script could be made to extract all the tiles. I'm not sure if one exists but I can give it a shot in the next couple of days. I've made scripts before, but it's been a while.
As for the colours, you would have to go through each tile and choose which 4 colours to use. You wouldn't need to colour every single pixel individually (you could use colour selection and then fill the selections), but you would have to go through every single tile, and then replace the 4 shades of grey with the 4 colours you want for that tile. Tedious, but I can't think of any other way of doing it since the colours vary for each tile.
Thank you! I will look into this and see how it goes.
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there is a program designed for splitting evenly distributed sprite sheets. I have it backed-up on a few sites in the event I ever lose it.
Want the link?
