Reorganize database

[MetalES]

Diarandor's solution to sprites :

"make each variant of each animation of the hero in a different file, which makes it faster to create new variants of sprites using "copy-paste", because all variants have the same coordinates, origin, etc in each png."

This is a good idea

Project Zelda Engine (RPG Maker) have a tool for color swapping

Current state of progress (Sprites)

• [x] Musics

-[ ] Items (items controllers)

• [ ] Entities
• [ ] Enemies
• [x] Hero
• [x] Hud
• [x] Menus
• [x] NPC
• [x] Fogs (These are surfaces so they don't need much treatment)
• [x] Scene (used for cutscenes)
• [ ] Objects (World objects, move this to the entities folder)

Next step : Musics.

[christopho]

Actually, my experience shows that it is easier to maintain a quest with multiple PNG files for animations. For example to revert of merge changes that add or modify a specific animation.

[MetalES]

Hmmm, I mean, merge all animations that are set to be finished (items, walking, carrying, stopped), because as I modify one single thing (a frame for example), all animation set need to be modified, while this solution present a lot of advantages. (mostly time)

The only question is, how are animation loaded, is the bitmap file loaded at each animation or is it loaded just once when the animation set is loaded ?

[christopho]

They are never finished forever, and even if they were, then you cannot easily revert/merge commits that add or remove animations in other projects, or import/exports animations from/to other projects.

It is actually easier to have a PNG file with a single animation that has all colors variants in it. In a project you very often add/remove/change animations but the total number of tunic variants does not change a lot. But this is just my personal experience.

For now, the bitmap file is loaded several times, but this will be improved one day, anyway it is an implementation detail you should not consider.

[MetalES]

Hmmm, well then, I'll do it the normal way.

[Diarandor]

This is just my personal opinion: I think it is better to keep each animation in a different png, to make them more independent each one from the others. (Sometimes I make an exception and put different animations in the same file, but not too many, to keep the image size not too big.) Also, I usually make each variant of each animation of the hero in a different file, which makes it faster to create new variants of sprites using "copy-paste", because all variants have the same coordinates, origin, etc in each png.

[christopho]

Good point, it also allows to have identical .dat files for a lot of animations.

[MetalES]

Yeah I'm gonne use Diarandor's solution