Sprite Sheets for the Octopus
Yesterday I was working on getting sprite sheets into my code. I used zwoptex to condense all my images together, and they output a nice plist file as the control file as well. From there I used my previous established Image class to chop up the image via the control file and set each sub-image into a dictionary by its original name as the key. This allows for easy and fast access. Now I just have to utilize this in making my tile-map scroll around, and for animating my character. I haven’t yet found a decent sprite for this, but I’ll see how it goes. I’ve been combing through all the free graphics sites without any success, maybe I’ll just doodle something up real quick. I may have to write another class for regular spritesheets. My class only really supports those with a control file, not ones that are all the same size without a control file. Hopefully I’ll have a more interesting screenshot to post later today, but with my homework load, probably not.