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Animation is as easy as splitting the image into an array. Figure how to split the image and put each part into the same array and Animating is as easy as...

 

Image[15];
i++;
if (i > 14)
    i = 0;
Draw Image[i];

 

BOOM animated. Don't really need a tutorial on animation. Just need to know how to load the image properly. This is just sudo code

 

EDIT: Not sure if SDL has an easier way of doing it, I know Allegro does but that is irrelevant unless you use Allegro and SDL. As you can use both at the same time.

How do you expect to be able to draw the animation, The Screen, Scroll, Create menus, create controls after you learn how to make your sprite animated? And you can skip around the tutorials. If you don't understand how something works read the commented code that is all over the place on that site.

 

I barely know SDL and by reading the site I can tell what each line of code does just by the little comments lazyfoo placed. I am able to skip around the tutorial.

 

Learn how to create a blank screen first. Then you'll be able to learn how to load an image. Then learn to move it. Once you can move it learn to animate it. Skipping around tutorials has steps too.

If your enemy is less than the screen min or greater than the screen max you would reverse the speed of x and/or y.

 

xSpeed = 1;
ySpeed = 1;
If (target.x < screenMinX || target.x > screenMaxX)
    xSpeed = -xSpeed; //reverse
if(target.y < screenMinY || target.y > screenMaxX)
    ySpeed = -ySpeed; //reverse</pre>
target.x += xSpeed;
target.y += ySpeed;

 

you mean that?

This is normal. I could have said the same thing at one point. I still stick to my comfort zone. I switched from C/C++ to java only because of direct PNG support. and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to load a png with c++.

 

I never learned 3d and cannot really do the math for it so I am stuck in 2d. OpenGL DX? Pft. Guy I been programming for fun for longer than you've been alive and I still don't know that junk.

I am going to have to say Java as well. Works very well and you do not need an IDE at all. I guess the same can be said for any language really. I compile all my java programs via a batch program and use the old school notepad.exe as my editor. *I just couldn't get any JAVA IDE working "correctly" (How I wanted) so decided not to even use one*

Though Notepad++ is great if you only want an editor and don't mind learning how to compile and sign your own jar files via a command line.

Updated 1/18/2011
Added:
Combined the reloading either one or both Male and Female options to default into the same program.
Now when you click Save or Reload you can see that it has been clicked.
When dragging the mouse over options the last option is now correctly displayed in the preview window although this didn't affect the saved image.
A button to select if you want to reload both or just Male or Female options can now be selected.
Shrunk the size of the rar download by 3kb and the Jar file by a 3kb. Not a big change but a change non the less despite having added graphics.

No character options added or removed.

I like what Black-Rook posted. Very nice. Was going to post something else but that one is just amazing. I'll have to favorite that one.

Released as is. No further updates will be done unless a major bug is found.

I may retract that statement. There are a few things I was going to add that never made the cut.

Changes I have made:
Reloading now only reloads the currect selected sex instead of resetting both. -Added to project

Changes I plan to make:
Save as bmp and create Allegro safe bitmap. 255,0,255 background.
Change colors via a pallete for each option.

Requires Java 6+ found here http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jav...oads/index.html This program will NOT run if you do not have Java 6+ installed. Java 7 is recommended.

Updated 3-10-2013 All links current.

Current Update:
Changed the menu around and added confirmation windows.
 
Also going to faze out the Web Applet version here soon.

Feel free to use the created images where ever you want. No credit is needed but is appreciated. Credit Famitsu if anything for the images they provided me for this Sprite Creator.

Major update. No longer requires a web browser to run. Just double click "SprCre.jar" or double click SprCre3.bat to run.

Enable double clicking of runnable JAR file:
If you have not set file associations for ".jar" file types then right click "SprCre.jar" select "open with", go to where Java JRE is installed (usually c:/Program files (x86)/Java/jre7/bin" for 64bit java or "c:/Program Files/Java/jre7/bin" for 32bit java.) Select javaw.exe (Must use javaw.exe NOT java.exe) and click ok. That should make the the jar runnable on double click. Or you can run SprCre3.bat. The path after "c:/Program Files/Java/" may appear different but just select the jre folder.

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Generation is saved in png format with transparency enabled. The files are Saved in the "Saved" folder ;)
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Artwork not fully created by me although most of it is heavily modified and licensed. Some of the artwork is from Famitsu which is the point as this applet is intended to mimic the website as a 'take with you' option. This is for people starting out with programming or people who use GameMaker and RPGMaker and would like to experiment with pre-made character creations.

Special Thanks:
Axerax at RPGRevolution for the Sprite Creator 3 splash.
Holder at RPGRevolution.com for your beard images.
Famitsu

Create 117,717,292,862,668,800 character combinations.

Doesn't require the web browser:
Web App and Application are combined in the same JAR now. You can use index.html or just double click the JAR to run. The layout will be automatically set.
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If you would like me to add resources that you made to this Sprite Creator PM a zip, I prefer mediafire please, and I'll see what I can do. If you would like to create resources for the project so I can add them I can provide how the image layouts are. Please only provide images that you created. I cannot add images that require a license unless I can get that license free. Also please don't send fully created characters unless the image is a .xcf gimp image with all the layers of the image separate.

Current project status:
Currently working on a very large update. Giving the window a menu to control what some of the buttons do and making the window have a more windows 8 feel.

GHZ is not a rate on how fast a PC is

It gives an approximate level, appropriate to the kind of granularity required for this.

This statement is so wrong it isn't even funny.

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Happy to oblige!

Obvious abuse of power. Good job.

Don't send that grey rock right off the bat, it hits the ship near immediately. Game play after that really in not fast it is just that initial rock, once you dodge it things slow down a bit. Once you do die however the game doesn't end.

Didn't get far in but maybe some animations in the objects would help.

The 2D game more than likely will not use 1GB obviously, that isn't the  issue. What is the issue is that Windows Vista alone uses that  1GB, the whole thing and then some. Leaving nothing left for anything  else. Apparently you do not know how a computer works and how memory is allocated. GHZ is not a rate  on how fast a PC is. A Pentium 4 overclocked to 5GHZ cannot beat my  N260 at 1.6GHZ. Just because his processor says 2GHZ means nothing, it  doesn't mean it can do much more then run the OS and Browser(the laptop  is a budget laptop as well from 2006-2007). Windows Vista ALONE is using  all the systems resources and anything run after the fact is using,  assuming any is even available, virtual memory. Which is based off ram  installed, so 1GB in this case which is stored on the HDD, 5400 RPM  and a generous 33MB/s(probably a lot lower) HDD from late 2006-early  2007. Then it is read off that drive with an access time of over 15ms  (easily higher given the drives age). Take into account that the Video(integrated) on that  system is using 256MB of ram leaving 768MB ram for the OS and a 1GB of  virtual memory, and the system OS (Vista) requires 1GB(Minimum usually  double that) alone, the OS is already loading itself into virtual  memory, making everything from then on out to load from a slow HDD.

By the way: N260 is a processor and when you said you didn't even know  what dual core was, I face palmed. You probably should rethink talking  about speeds of a computer and what it can and cannot do with a computer tech when you apparently do not know how one works to begin with. Take  yourself over to a computer forum or read wiki. I recommend  ExtremeOverclocking(EOCF or anything alike) a place I have been posting my computers that I  have built since before that laptop even hit mainstream.

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Circular logic, now that is funny. Here is an example of what actual circular logic looks like.
You don't know what you're talking about because you don't know what you're talking about.

This isn't even about the OP any more, but rather an inability for someone to grasp simple concepts about what a computer can and cannot do. I am done here, no reason to teach an old dog new tricks when the tricks are too difficult for the dog they are being taught to.

on my computer it runs fine, its just that one person who has problems.

Doesn't matter if the computer is or is not outdated. This single line, is evidence that they cannot run it. By the usage of "just" which indicates more than one person was involved in testing should bring the conclusion that their hardware is not capable of running the program. Also indicated by "just" is that others are not having the same problem.

Is the computer outdated by standards of today? Yes(Which makes my statement not an opinion, but rather a observation of the standards of today). Is it outdated in the standards of running a 2D game made with basic SDL? No. Could the computer have other problems that would interrupt the games ability to effectively run? Possible, but inconclusive as no relevant data can be ascertained about the said computer. Does the game run fine for every other person who tried to run it? Yes.

Should the OP have kept the password the same on the source so that one of us could possibly look through the code instead of having 2 people speculate on what could be the cause instead of actually finding the real cause? Yes. Will they allow the code to be looked over again? Maybe. Is this discussion now pointless without further data on the subject? Yes.

Btw, the OP may very well indeed be doing something wrong. I'll concede to that; however there may be more to it.

High Resource can be defined as an excessive or large amount of memory being used by an application that exceeds the standard.
Standard can be defined the average expected usage of a given program.

Average 2D games will not exceed said computers system specs, but the op did say:

its actually not that simple when i think of it...

Their computer stats are quite dated. 1gb or ram, on board video(shared ram with system) and a Celeron 550. And then Vista installed on it to boot. Sounds like a netbook, and a very old one at that. 1gb of ram? I wouldn't expect they would be able to run anything, after vista is loaded, effectively even assuming a fresh install and a fully optimized OS.

It should be easily capable of running a SDL game.

They keyword is "should", however if everyone else who uses the program runs it fine and then it is tested against a system with very limited resources and performs slowly then I would have to say the system is dated or unmaintained.

"Should" is a relative term, which implies that on new hardware, fresh vista install, and fully updated drivers as well as optimized OS then sure the Celeron 550 and 1GB of ram "should" run SDL games easily; however this hardware isn't new, the OS isn't new, and I am willing to bet the OS isn't frequently re-installed(or maintained) to keep it running as fast as possible, as the typical computer user never even re-installs(or even knows how to maintain a computer) any OS when their computer gets slow, they just assume their computer is just getting old and accepts the sluggish behavior.

"Should" and "Will" are completely different terms and "should" declares the statement as an opinion. Opinions(as the word "Should" implies) on if a specified hardware can or cannot run a specified application needs to be kept to real world testing rather than a guess with out any testing. My netbook with 2GB of ram and a much faster N260(Dual Core) will bog down against a high resource SDL or Allegro at times, and the netbook is frequently kept in prime condition and well maintained.

You're talking about a Celeron 550 (Single Core Processor released in late '06) with 1GB system ram that is shared with the video(which can take anywhere from 32MB-128 MB (Mine takes 128 as I use the same integrated video) depending on driver support), and then make the assumption that the said system with minimum system requirement for just running the OS (Windows Vista in this case) will then be able to effectively run anything else. This just isn't the case, as the test showed.

Is that to say there isn't any problems with the code, no. There may be many problems; however there may be none. No room for opinionated responses that completely contradict a real world test that was conducted against the program the OP mentioned to the hardware they also mentioned.

Their computer stats are quite dated. 1gb or ram, on board video(shared ram with system) and a Celeron 550. And then Vista installed on it to boot. Sounds like a netbook, and a very old one at that. 1gb of ram? I wouldn't expect they would be able to run anything, after vista is loaded, effectively even assuming a fresh install and a fully optimized OS.