Scaling

[king21]

Is there a way to make enemy or player characters larger without having to redo all assets for the game?

 

[danno]

You can use draw method, drawmethodscale to be exact, like this

drawmethod scale {scalex} {scaley}

• If scaley is not specified, it is the same as scalex. For example, drawmethod scale 1.5 will scale the whole sprite by 1.5.

Anim jump

loop 1
offset 47 69
bbox 37 31 19 39
delay 5
frame data/chars/bill/e.png
drawmethod scale 2 2
frame data/chars/bill/ile.png
frame data/chars/bill/e.png
frame data/chars/bill/ile.png
frame data/chars/bill/e.png

 

[maxman]

If you want to resize a character's size larger or smaller without bothering to put standard drawmethod commands in every single animation, you can use either setdrawmethod or changedrawmethod. That way, the script will do everything for you without having you to insert that drawmethod command in all animations you have.

W

Thread 'Increasing/decreasing the size of characters'

Apr 15, 2023

Since I'm not in any way a pixel artist, anything I try and make in Openbor is going to be an assemblage of other things. There's not really a way around it aside from learning an entirely new skill from the ground up.
But that has some inherent aesthetic issues. One of the many obvious ones is that sprites come from all over and have different dimensions since the games they were made for all worked differently. This doesn't feel like an unsolvable problem, but the idea of "oh, I'll just resize them" opens up an entirely new can of worms as the sprites then change. Halving them or...

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• editing graphics scaling sprites
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[Gurtag]

If you want to resize a character's size larger or smaller without bothering to put standard drawmethod commands in every single animation, you can use either setdrawmethod or changedrawmethod. That way, the script will do everything for you without having you to insert that drawmethod command in all animations you have.

W

Thread 'Increasing/decreasing the size of characters'

Apr 15, 2023

Since I'm not in any way a pixel artist, anything I try and make in Openbor is going to be an assemblage of other things. There's not really a way around it aside from learning an entirely new skill from the ground up.
But that has some inherent aesthetic issues. One of the many obvious ones is that sprites come from all over and have different dimensions since the games they were made for all worked differently. This doesn't feel like an unsolvable problem, but the idea of "oh, I'll just resize them" opens up an entirely new can of worms as the sprites then change. Halving them or...

• Weoooo
• editing graphics scaling sprites
• Replies: 11
• Forum: Ask and Answer

have used drawmethod to scale stuf but never checked and allways wonder.. do bboxes and attack boxes scale too?

 

[danno]

do bboxes and attack boxes scale too?

From what I remember they don't, you have to redo them inside the animation

 

[O Ilusionista]

From what I remember they don't, you have to redo them inside the animation

yep, they don't scale neither rotate. But I don't think it would be impossible to implement on a future update.

 

[DCurrent]

No, collision does not scale or rotate - that's conflating display with logic. Remember, an entity is not the thing you see on screen. Those are just pixels drawn for you, the human, as an interface, and done after the results of logic are worked out. They have jack all to do with any of the actual game.

I am considering a collision scale in the future, but it would work separately from drawmethod, and it's not a high priority item with all the other things on my plate. There are ways to do scaled collision with script, but its pretty advanced. If you are interested, I could see about working up some instructions.

DC