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General Discussion => Hellos and Byes => Topic started by: Hughesy on September 30, 2013, 09:00:18 am

Title: Hi
Post by: Hughesy on September 30, 2013, 09:00:18 am
Hello again Sphere ;D

I once visited the old forums learned a little then lost interest, well now im back older and (hopefully) a little wiser
to have yet another attempt at making games.

Nice to see some of the old faces still around tho (Davine, Flying Jester, Radnen and co).

My first problem seems to be with importing .png images to sprite sets, sphere just give me "error cannot import file"
am i doing something wrong? seems like this was easier last time i tried it (a loong time ago)
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Radnen on September 30, 2013, 11:44:34 am
Welcome to Spherical! I'm afraid I don't remember you. :) Is this a new name?

About the error, AFAIK the old sphere editor (and mine) would need the spriteset set up in a particular way. Or if you are doing single image imports you could just copy/paste the image in. But be warned: the image needs to be the same size as the spriteset image size. (Go to the menu, spritesets, change size, and click resize spriteset to see what size it uses, and if so change it to the intended size).
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Hughesy on September 30, 2013, 12:38:37 pm
Didn't think you would it was some time ago, you replied in almost all my posts though iirc
even helped me out with a little storyline for my game.. heh i think my username on old forums was hughesymc or something stupid+similar :D

but as i said i wasnt around long enough to realy make an impact in your memory ;)
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Hughesy on September 30, 2013, 12:49:25 pm
what i tried was downloading random png images off the net, ill try what you said now

for the future tho how would you do it? or do you know of any good tutorials for drawing good sprites? as i kinda get how it works but dont know were to start and have no artistic skill whatsoever :(
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Flying Jester on September 30, 2013, 03:55:10 pm
Welcome back!

I actually don't remember you either...but welcome back all the same!
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: DaVince on October 01, 2013, 04:33:12 am

heh i think my username on old forums was hughesymc or something stupid+similar :D

Ah, see! I didn't remember who you were at all, but I do remember that name. Welcome back! Hope you stick around longer this time. ;)
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Radnen on October 01, 2013, 05:00:32 am
Yeah I remember the name hughesymc and I do remember you hanged around the support forum, alot. :P
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Hughesy on October 01, 2013, 05:44:36 am
probably still will ;D

i just need to stop myself copy pasting stuff.. not gunna learn that way haha
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: DaVince on October 01, 2013, 06:17:03 am

probably still will ;D

i just need to stop myself copy pasting stuff.. not gunna learn that way haha

I like what I'm readin', here. This is basically how things went for me when I started with Sphere! At 14, mess around, copy-pasting random stuff, not really understanding anything and failing. A year later, coming back to it, properly learning the language and finally, making my own game and succeeding! Keep at it! :)
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Hughesy on October 01, 2013, 07:38:30 am
could i ask which tutorial you used/would recommend?
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: DaVince on October 01, 2013, 07:57:38 am
I used several of the documentation files that come with Sphere itself, but sometimes found them confusing or not explaining quite enough. That was one of the main reasons I wrote DaVince scripting tutorial (http://wiki.spheredev.org/DaVince_scripting_tutorial), so it might be a good starting point. ;)

As you get a bit better, check out http://wiki.spheredev.org/Category:Tutorials
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Hughesy on October 01, 2013, 08:12:48 am
thanks ill give that a read now, figure ill start out with an intro and main menu

its were all games begin so i should probably start there to :)