You program looks great! Nice work. I’ve been continuing working in my project that will compile sprites.

The idea is to allow someone to build and test sprite animation and also sprites used for other things such as font. Often, I would like the characters to have the same space as the original font or maybe a little different. But the problem is writing code the detects the characters and what not. I thought it would be a lot nicer to have a program the generates the RECT for source coordinates so my program won’t have to. Then I would only have to increment the position by width each time, simple right? Anyways, I’m working on the program that will allow me to do this.

I would like to create sprites for what ever purpose, but I think some people are charging from sprites to 3D meshes. So I don't know if my program will do anyone any good. But for first time comers, it should help alot with 2D stuff.

I’m thinking about adding a license to my thing (images, software) so that someone could not infringe upon me, take credit for my work, claim it as theirs and attempt to prosecute me. I’ve been talking to someone about things and what I’ve heard makes me worry a little bit. I know there are those kind of people out their, so I need to protect my self against them.

What is a good license that I may distribute my images freely and protect them by law that I will not have to pay for? I think GNU or public licensing would work, but I would like to have people use the products freely with out question. But I only need the licensing to protect my self from an infringer or fraud that attempt to take credit for my work.

I know I may not have a lot right now, but I will add more and if I can avoid the possibility of any troubles, I will be delighted.

Those are some nice sprites; good work!

I'm only familiar with open source code licences, but maybe the MIT licence is closest to what you want? If not, there's a whole heap of other licences on there that you can look at. However since you already own the copyright automatically, you can make up your own licence regarding your work. You have to put "Copyright (c) 2006 - Your Name Here" (remember to include the year), then modify the "Permision is granted to..." part to include what you want.

But now to provide my standard disclaimed every time I provide anything that sounds a bit like legal advice: I'm not a IP lawyer, just a postgrad student, so I might have got some of the details wrong (or maybe there's some US specific laws I'm unaware of), so take this with a grain of salt.

[Edited by - Trapper Zoid on January 10, 2006 9:56:51 PM]

Just finished the recap on the coins again. I now have 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 with the $ or ¥ in copper, silver, gold and platinum. All are 64x64 sprites on 512x256 sheets, 32 frames each. A total of 23.5 MB on my HD.

Next, I want to make, perhaps, a $ sign in gold spinning around or a roll of dollars. Money is quit easy to make, so maybe I should come up with something different. The coins are useful for side scrollers (Mario type). The gold coins remind me of DK.

I’m thinking about making some of my own explosion sprites with Hypervoxels in LW. I’ve found some good tutorials that introduced the procedure, so I guess it would come down to taste and extensive editing until the effect is just right. The regular pretty much.

Health kits, hearts or other power ups would be cool. I would like to make some, but I’m running out of ideas that seem feasible. I was thinking about animating the alpha so that the sprites could have their own outlines directly hardwired in (so to speak). That would make it less harder for the programmer to write procedures for it. All they would have to do is provide color and the alpha channel has the values pre determined and fit perfectly for the sprites that fade in and out or what ever. Maybe drop shadows like the font would be nice too. I think maybe I should leave the alpha channels out of the images so that other can apply the ones that would like instead of being stuck with what ever I drew.

Any ideas please?

I've updated my site, link. All the coins I've made are available to you now! They are in JPG format, but still have excellent quality. The size of BMP's are to large, but I still wanted you to have the option of alpha so I also included the JPG alpha image.

I'm thinking about also converting more of the sprites. The entire coin package is ~1.3MB. That's 2 versions of 6 types which makes 768 sprites, under a meg 'n' a-half! All free from me, thanks!

So I think I found my calling, computer graphics. But um, I would like to do more, so if any of you (that means any) have an idea or something you might like, jus give me a jingle and I’ll see what I can do.


[Edited by - sakky on January 11, 2006 10:40:14 PM]

Awesome Sprites!
You should make some more for 2D games with a 3D look.

I will, but I don't know what to make. Any ideas!?