Ultimate Arena – Directional Sprites for Ultimate Arena Fighters

Creating those directional sprites you’ve seen underneath the character’s stats and the format behind them!

소개

You’ve probably been to the Character Editor and seen the “FRONT”, “BACK”, 그리고 “왼쪽” sprites underneath their stats. Those are indeed custom directional sprites you can import for your character that will display accordingly whenever their character is facing a certain direction while they’re on the arena map.

Most of you probably didn’t bother importing directional sprites, but for those that did they most likely saw their imported image take up the entire square in a bad, blurry mess- which isn’t good.

But for the stubborn and myself. Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to make some crisp, nice-looking directional sprites for your Ultimate Arena character.

Sprite Rules

그래서, in order to make your sprite not look like trash-compacted blurry garbage, here’s some rules I’ve come up with that your sprite needs to follow whenever you import it:

경고 – Important Precaution:

This is important to consider before you do this.

• Whenever you are updating your character for something else other than the directional sprites, you MUST import/replace your directional sprites again.
• 그렇지 않다면, 게임 (when you save your character) will for some reason stretch out pixels next to transparent ones. Every time you save without modifying it will keep on stretching the sprite further out each time. turning your beautiful sprites into pixel pancakes. This is a bug I have not been able to avoid other than the way described above.

• These sprites may be better for characters that you don’t plan on updating your character too much so you can avoid doing this repair every time you do so.
• 또한, when you view characters with imported directional sprites THEN going to a character that doesn’t have any, it will keep the directional sprites from the previous character. 이것은 easily fixed by pressing “NEW CHARACTER”, resetting it back to default.

Rules to Follow:

Sprite MUST be 32 엑스 32 픽셀 (32 width, 32 height)

• If your width & height are more or less than this will make the game auto-resize it to fit 32 엑스 32, which blurs or distorts the image heavily.
• If the character’s sprite your fitting into the direction sprite is smaller than 32 엑스 32, that’s okay. You can just leave all the empty transparent space around them.

Character’s feet/bottom must be touching the bottom of the sprite.

• If your character is SUPPOSED to be floating/flying, then you can ignore this rule.
• If you leave your character in the direct center of your sprite, it will float slightly above the ground in the 3D Arena Map or be slighty offset in the 2D Arena map.

Any pitch black pixels (hex #000000) are transparent.

• Keep in mind any black pixels on your sprite will show up transparent- even if there are transparent pixels in it. If you don’t want that, you will have to change the black pixels on your sprite to a lighter black hex value (전- . hex #010101)
• This can be helpful, if your character doesn’t have any black pixels on them but have a black background behind them.
• Whenever you import a sprite with black pixels, it will look like those pixels are showing up non-transparent, but do not let it deceive you- when you save your character with your imported sprites, the game will THEN correct those pixels to be transparent.

Whenever you do custom directional sprites as well, 그만큼 “HUE” “SAT” “VAL” sliders no longer affect your imported sprites- so you do not have to worry about that.

Directional Sprites

Whenever you’re importing your sprites, you require a FRONT, BACK, and LEFT sprite. Each of them must be following the rules above.

• 그만큼 FRONT sprite will show when the character is facing south on the arena map.
• 그만큼 BACK sprite will show when the character is 북쪽을 향함.
• The LEFT sprite will show when the character is facing west and will be mirrored when facing east.

The BACK and LEFT sprites in the character editor display are a bit darker than the others, 하지만, in-game it’s normal.

Animated Sprites?

아니요, I don’t think you can do animated directional sprites.

You may have noticed “Animation Spd” ~ 위에 “HUE”, “SAT”, 그리고 “VAL”; I do not know what that slider controls. I have tried importing animated sprites (gifs) into the directional sprite, and despite following the rules above, they fail to animate or be affected by the slider.

결론

artist/source for shantae’s icon: banboro (technobot)

artist/source for sans’ 상: srpelo

그리고 당신은 그것을 가지고 있습니다, the best way to make directional sprites for your Ultimate Arena fighter so you can better recognize them on the battlefield. Happy hunting.