[General] Sprite sheets : possible?

[Almia]

Well, I have not been working on WE so I have forgotten some of its fields.
Is it possible to use Sprite sheets in WE?
Because if not, im planning to do it A system!

 

[PurgeandFire]

It may be possible by importing all the different sprites as blp's and then adding them as images (or using a destructable + war club or something weird like that). But I don't think anyone has done it apart from the Chinese.

In my opinion..... DO IT! It'd be really fun. I'd love to see how cool it would look! It would be awesome for any 2D map maker.

 

[Almia]

WTFudge was that chinese.

Though big problem is that,afaik, W3 doesn't have any quads for images.

 

[PurgeandFire]

What do you mean by "quads"? Do you mean splitting up the sprite sheet into multiple squares?

 

[Almia]

yep. just like what LOVE engine does. It's like cropping the sprites and creating them as images over time, hence, a GIF like effect.

It is much cheaper than importing individual sprites than importing the whole sheet.

 

[Talavaj]

Wc3 uses sprite sheets actually. For things like fog/fire/cloud particles.
Pretty sure it works by just animating the uvw to skip to the next portion of the texture on every frame.
In theory you could just animate a billboarded plane like that manually, IIRC Neodex exports uvw translations.
I was playing with an idea of making a 2-and-a-half-D-looking map like Don't starve before, but gave up considering I can't draw crap. (so went with cel-shaded look)

Though if you wanna do that through editor then yeah, no idea. Good luck with it either way !

 

[Almia]

Im now writing a script, though without quads(impossibru!)
There are two structs I made, SpriteSheet struct for the collection of sprite images and the Sprite struct to create and animate SpriteSheet.

Meh, I need to go into Sennin mode to retrieve my vJass skills(forgot them temporarily) XD

 

[Arhowk]

Im now writing a script, though without quads(impossibru!)
There are two structs I made, SpriteSheet struct for the collection of sprite images and the Sprite struct to create and animate SpriteSheet.

Meh, I need to go into Sennin mode to retrieve my vJass skills(forgot them temporarily) XD

why do a sprite system in wc3 when you have so many other better options? :/

 

[Adiktuz]

^ yeah... exactly what I'm thinking...

IMHO, if ur gonna do a 2D, sprite-based game, better get the 2D engines out there... they will work better for this, and your game will even be stand-alone...

 

[Almia]

Because I want 2D that's why.