Sprites are the graphics used by playable or interactive characters in your scenes. Add sprites to your game by including PNG files in your project's assets/sprites folder.

Requirements

Sprite PNGs must only contain the following four colors:

SPEZ - SNES Sprite Editor ver 1.3 June 11, 2020.NET 4.5.2 (works with MONO on non-Windows systems) For SNES game development. Freeware by Doug Fraker The MIT License (MIT) version history 1.0 - initial 1.1 - save tiles with RLE option 1.2 - can use all key commands outside tile edit form - fixed a load session bug (palette of sprite) - sprite list, now can select multi/arbitrary and apply. Nameless Sprite Editor 2.X (used for editing of everything else) A blank Fire Red rom. This one is key:D. So in this tutorial, I'll show you how to edit Red's regular trainer sprite. Using the method I use, you can change other things later. STEP ONE: Open up Nameless Sprite Editor 2.X and load your rom. GBA graphics editor with more function than NLZ-GBA Advance and better optimized and efficient. Multi-purpose graphics utility with various compressions available. Multi-purpose program capable of portrait, battle animation, and spell animation insertion for all GBA FEs. Used to Fire Emblem battle sprites. Outdated LZ77 graphics editor. Sprite size is weird on the GBA. A sprite can be a maximum of 64x64, but doesn’t necessarily have to be square, meaning that what size your sprite is depends both on the value in FE or Attribute 1, and on the shape you defined in Attribute 0. They work together like this: Size 00.

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#86c06c

#e0f8cf

#65ff00

Download the GB Studio Palette Swatches for:
Adobe Photoshop
Aseprite

The color #65ff00 is used to represent a transparent background in game and will be invisible in-game and in the World Editor.

Colors that are not one of the above hex codes will be matched to the nearest color. Unlike backgrounds, the color #306850 can not be used in sprites.

A sprite consists of one or more 16px x 16px frames laid out horizontally in file. A sprite with a single frame will be 16px x 16px while a sprite with three frames will be 48px x 16px.

Static sprites

For sprites that only need a single frame (e.g. static items such as signposts) create your PNG as a 16px x 16px image containing just the one frame required.

Animated sprites

If you want to have sprites that play short animations you can make a PNG with between 2 frames at 32px x 16px and 25 frames at 400px x 16px. Using these sprites on an actor will enable you to select which frame you want to display by default and will allow an animation to be played at a specified speed.

Actor

To make sprites that can face in four directions turning towards the player, create a 48px x 16px PNG containing the three frames forward facing, upwards facing and right facing. The left facing sprite is automatically generated by flipping the right facing sprite horizontally so does not need to be created.

Animated Actor

To make sprites that have animated movement, or that can be used as a player character, create a 96px x 16px PNG containing six frames, two forward facing, two upwards facing and two right facing animation frames.

As there are limits to how many sprites frames can be loaded into a single scene don't use animated sprites unless you know your NPCs will need animated movement.

Please note that the current version of GBASpriteEditor is intended as only a demonstration of the final version. Sets saved with the current version will not be valid in the future.

GBASpriteEditor is a free, cross-platform sprite editor developed specifically for Nintendo Gameboy Advance development. Programmed in Java, GBASpriteEditor provides support for extra tool plug-ins as well as import and export plug-ins.
GBASpriteEditor is licensed under the GPL and full source code is available for download. However, comercial developers (and anyone else kind enough) are encouraged to donate towards continuing the development of this editor.

GBASpriteEditor provides support for additional plugins. Currently there are no plug-ins available for download. To find out more about developing plug-ins for GBASpriteEditor read the Plug-in Development Document.

25th November 2003 - Second release. None of the previous known faults have been fixed but rendering is much faster and a few new features have been added. Unfortunatly, this update means any sets or palettes saved with the previous version are now invalidated. However, after this release I do anticipate this situation occuring soon again in the future so treat this version as another demo of the first full version.
18th November 2003 - First release which has a few faults. Could someone please email me to confirm the SoSpriteAnimation export works. Sorry about the unfinished documentation. It will be completed soon.

Currently only one window at a time can be drawn in Linux and Windows versions
Rendering large images is inefficient and can cause memory problems
File selection dialogs currently allow user to filter filename using all the different file types used in the application (.set, .pal, .png, .gif, .h etc...) rather than just the relevent groups

Palette re-ordering and color removal needs adding
Preference windows and prompt dialogs do not disable the editor window when opened
Default import plug-in uses the first 256 colors found in an image. A better solution would be to use all the colors in the image and then reduce the palette by removing similar colors
Layer previewing is disabled (as well as incomplete) due to speed issues

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