HowToDesign

How Tos for Design

Creating Sprites

Base for creating a sprite is a set of rendered images from an animation. To do this the Sprite-Sheet Gimp plugin is required. Store the *.scm file in your gimp script folder (e.g. ${user.home}/.gimp-2.8/scripts.
Open Gimp and under file->Open as Layer select all the images that should end up in the sprite. The bottom layer will become the first image in the sprite.
Now select from Filters->Sprite-Sheet Create from layer and store the resulting image as png file.