So, as some of you may know, I am currently working on a Knight mod. However, I have some questions, and thought they were significant and different enough to make another thread.

1) How does one size a sprite? Does one just make it smaller in paint, for example
Edit: If I try just resizing a sprite in paint, it just messes up the pixels, does this mean what I think it does (full revamp?)

2) Why does my sprite not have good mirror qualities? As in, every time I look left, rather than right, it looks like it's an old, glitched, Pokemon game.

That is a palette problem. Wait momentarily as I grab the link.
Here. It was in the "Everything you need to know about CC modding topic". Give it a quick skim and you should be able to avoid some common problems.

Thank you, I chose to do the paint method, but it still seems not to work. Now it looks inverted and has a white outline.

I palleted it, should work now.

Hmm. These don't seem to palatee either.

This is what I do for palating, is this wrong?
1) Open pallate and image in paint
2) Paste Image over palatte
3) Save as image.

It never seems to work.

It's right , but you can also paste your sprite over another smaller sprite in pallete( some times your sprite it's smaller then the pallet , and you don't want one giant image ).

Been using Windows 7 paint, supposedly that sucks, so I switched over to doing the hard way with photoshop. So, I have working sprites. Thanks though!

that would have been the problem.

Just use gimp. I find it much easier to just index the image, rather than doing all the cut and paste stuff.

Heres the old paint, works nicely.

And Ohm, here's some advice, if you haven't used it already.

If you want make an indexed image to start spriting on without annoying copy-paste stuff, do this:

Make a new blank file. Set the color mode to RGB. Once you've got your file open, go to

Image > Mode > Indexed Color...

Go to the palette dropdown menu, click on custom and load this file:Yay! We win! What you did with that is open indexed color, go to custom palette and load the palette I gave you. That way, your new image is in the palette.


I use this method because in my crappy version of Photoshop, (Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac) and probably even in better versions, when I copy-paste it in, it won't expand to fit it because most 'shoppers don't like that.

PS: Be aware; if you have saved your file as a non-indexed picture already, if you try to save over it as an indexed picture, at least in my version, Photoshop will crash! The solution is to save it as a copy, delete the non-indexed version, and put the indexed picture where the non-indexed one was.