To do this grid guide in GraphicsGale follow these steps.Ĭlick and hold Grid to bring up the other options. As long as you fit it with in appropriate and even dimensions you shouldn't have any issues. This is the easiest way to edit or create original sprites that will fit properly in RPG Maker. If your second row of animation isn't on the second row, click the gear icon and change your base tile to Basetile 4 and you should see it move down.

When your row is correctly set up for animation the top row of tiles will have a blue and grey bounding box and the end frame tile will have a yellow and grey bounding box. Make sure you set up your base tiles appropriately and you should have no troubles. For this example I'm just using the default Actor from XP. Use the animation preview window to test your animations as you work. Front view walk, back view walk, left walk, right walk. Make sure you add 4 animation layers in the animation window and name them appropriately. If you go over that, RPG Maker will ignore the other rows. So your animations should be kept fairly simple and 4 frames only since that's how it's set up in RPG Maker. When animating sprites, the animations are in horizontal rows which is also how Pyxel Edit animates. Pay attention to one of the original sprites or tilesets to learn from. I think MV is similar to XP and has an almost endless height but I'm not sure. Open it up and count the top row on your tileset to make sure, then use a height of your choice in XP. The rows however are different per program. When you open your project you want it set to 32x48 with rows of 4x4.įor regular small sprites like in RPG2k3 or VX/Ace the dimensions are 32 pixels by 32.įor Auto tiles and other tilesets, the dimensions are 32 pixels by 32 pixels. There is a free version so I suggest using it. I HIGHLY recommend using Pyxel edit for this.

The dimensions for XP sprites are simply this: 32 pixels by 48.įor XP size and style sprites your grid needs to be 32x48 pixels. There's not many good tutorials for beginners or absolute beginners so here it is. The hardest part about creating or editing default sprites (so many people only want to change hair colour) for so many people (and I'm surprised so many still use it and ask me questions time to time) seems to be that people can't figure out the dimensions and lining it up properly and it becomes so difficult that there's an odd overlapping or other issues. This will work in RPG Maker 2003, XP, VX, VX Ace, Ace Lite and MV. Instead I suggest downloading the free version of Pyxel Edit and trying this out. The current tutorials are still for MSPaint and Photoshop and though they do the job, they don't always do it well. This is a quick tip on an easier way to create original or edit your default sprites.

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