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First of all, does anyone know where to get some free ship sprites? I just spent three hours looking. And second, how do I incorporate sprites into Coldstone. I am very familiar with the whole mask thing (I'm an expert at EV Edit) but Coldstone doesn't seem to have any of that kind of stuff in it. I have some sprites that come in separate files and some that are lined up. I scoured the guide, but couldn't find anything. Can anyone help?
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You need to either: use transparent GIFs, or use transparent PNGs
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Did you try iDevGames.com? They have a few sprite sets for space games, I believe.
Actually, Coldstone supports PICT, JPG, PNG, and BMP - not GIF. You don't want to use JPG for anything besides stills, though, as its lossy compression will mess up any transparency.
Each frame of an animation (sprite, etc) needs to be a separate file in your Coldstone "Pictures" folder. You can use a subfolder of "Pictures" if you like, and it helps to have all frames of a particular animation in the same folder, though it isn't strictly necessary.
If you use PICT or BMP for your sprites, they use simple white masking - any part of the image that is pure white will be transparent, and any part that isn't, won't be. This simple method takes the place of a separate mask file as used by EV*. As with EV/EVO, this masking method will give your sprites pixelly edges.
If you want smooth antialiased edges as in EVN, you need use PNG files, which have a built-in alpha mask (again, no need for a separate file.) There's been plenty of discussion about alpha masking and PNGs around here, so try searching this board
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Originally posted by Glenn: **Actually, Coldstone supports PICT, JPG, PNG, and BMP - not GIF. You don't want to use JPG for anything besides stills, though, as its lossy compression will mess up any transparency. **
Oops. Sorry 'bout that. Yes, he is right, no gifs.