Adding and editing animations

From Game Editor

If you like to have your own graphics in your game, you have to create actors. You can use any of these graphic formats:

• jpeg
• gif
• png
• bmp
• pcx
• tga
• xpm
• xcf
• lbm
• tif

Game editor will automatically create transparencies for objects using 24-bit color modes. (only a 32 bit color mode contains transparency). It will use the upper left corner pixel as the transparency color.

In modern color, each color gets one byte (8bits) of data. So a 24 bit bmp contains an r, g, and b channel. A 32 bit image contains r, b, g, and a channels. (a is alpha, or transparency).

You can create a sequence from a sprite sheet using the 'add sequence' button. You can choose the animation, the speed, and then the frames to be included, using the format 0; 1; 2; etc. etc. for each frame to be included.