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[Phyreburnz]

Simion32 says: This topic is for sprite animations and submissions.
Decided it was better off as a separate topic, instead of flooding the main topic.

I was wondering if you needed any help custom editing some sprites to make certain things work, like what aperson98 said about the DK on a horizontal rope. I edited Markster's sprites to make a DK on a horizontal rope. I would love to be able to help with difficult things like this! Please let me know what I can do to help! (I'm also working on putting all of the Kongs on all of the animal buddies; that means idling, riding, and jumping.)

[Simion32]

Sure, you can help with missing sprites.

I'm also working on putting all of the Kongs on all of the animal buddies; that means idling, riding, and jumping.

I don't need those, as the Kongs are separate objects and are programmatically linked to the animal buddy object(s), not via sprite combination.

If you do any sprites be sure that Kongs are separate from anything they would be on/carrying/etc. The same goes for any other character or object that throws stuff (bosses, etc).

It's very important that the explosion effects, dust, missiles and such also are separate graphics, as this is controlled by the game code. Think of each effect, "bullet", or physical object as a separate entity.

[Phyreburnz]

What about Rattly? The other riding animation for the Kongs work for all the other buddies except Rattly. I did make an animation for Donkey riding him by using DK's rope sprites (it would have just looked silly with his normal riding animation). How would you go about actually using that for the level builder?

[Simion32]

Rattly is one object, and DK is another object that attaches to Rattly (which is allowed by a particular object type flag being activated).

It doesn't matter what sprite DK displays, just that he's a separate object.

The linking of two objects together for riding an animal is rather complex, and I haven't completely figured it out yet. The object API is still under construction, so there aren't any guarantees yet.

[Phyreburnz]

Right now, I'm working on making Dixie swinging. I'm using part of Diddy's swinging animation in combination with several of Dixie's animations. I'm taking some from her riding a buddy, jumping on Rattly, and floating up (from Windy Well). I don't know if I want to do Kiddy, as his will be much more difficult (and I don't like Kiddy anyway :P).
Let me know what other animations would be helpful. Next, I was going to try to make DK on two vertical ropes going up and down.

[Simion32]

Be sure to use RE so that you catch all of Diddy's rope swing frames - the animation has to be quite smooth for it to "pull off" the look...

[Phyreburnz]

I actually just used ZSNES to rip the sprites and I'm using Photoshop to edit them. I haven't had any trouble animating with photoshop. I think all of them have turned out rather smooth.

[Phyreburnz]

I have been a very busy bee today. I fixed up my sprites of DK going up and down two ropes, made (simple, yet effective) floating sprites of DK and Kiddy (like for a windy well-esque level), and I have Dixie on a swinging rope almost completed.
I was maybe going to make Dixie and Kiddy sprites like they are close to a ledge, but I might not. I would like to prioritize and get some more important things out of the way... maybe DK carrying another Kong and being carried? Let me know if there are some other things of greater importance.

[Simion32]

You're better focusing on the sprites and animations that don't exist rather than ones that could be "pasted together" without extensive editing.

[Phyreburnz]

I have done much editing to all of them except for the Kiddy and DK floating. I'll probably edit them more to make them look better. For those ones, I just took the animations of them getting hit and looped them. They admitedly don't look great (DK looks better than Kiddy, though), but if I can add some motion to things like DK's tie and Kiddy's socks, they'll look legit.

Dixie swinging took forever... there was a lot of editing that went into that... and still more to come. Maybe I'll do Kiddy next, if I can figure out a good way to do it, first.

I was going to upload them today... but I'm an idiot and I forgot to save the animations files.... they're still in PSD form >:| I might get to upload them later today... I hope so. I think they're pretty good looking. I've fixed them up and re fixed them up a bunch.

What would be the most important thing for me to work on next? I'll have a lot more time for the next few weeks because of my break.

[Simion32]

You know I'd rather have the PSDs with individual frames in it, Phyre. GIFs have color problems and are not acceptable for LB. Sorry.

What would be the most important thing for me to work on next?

No idea presently. my memory's a little foggy.

[Phyreburnz]

That will make my life bunches easier! XD
The way I have it now is the actual process of the animation. I have the rope behind her on a separate level. I can go through and delete all of the levels with the rope behind her, if you like. Do you want it like that or in the form of a sprite sheet?
Would you also like the PSDs for DK on a horizontal rope?

[Simion32]

Yeah, I'd like those too. Just leave all the layers for the PDSs in, I'll need them as a reference point.

Making it a sprite sheet would make the animation impossible to accurately place back together, so I need the reference ropes/levels/whatevers that you used.

[Phyreburnz]

This is probably going to be a stupid question... but I can upload the files through the normal upload attachment tab, right? There's nothing special I have to do?

[Simion32]

You'll probably need to ZIP the PSDs, since the board is a little picky on file extensions.

[Phyreburnz]

Okay, so I still need to do some fixing up for Dixie swinging. I'm also going to be working on Kiddy swinging.

Here are the files of DK going up and down two horizontal ropes, and DK moving on a horizontal rope. I'm also going to put him going up and down the ropes in the animation section of the forum.

Let me know what you think!

EDIT: I forgot to add the DK down two ropes! I added the wrong file, first! Fixed now!

EDIT* Due to newer versions of DK going up and down two ropes, these ones have been removed.

[Phyreburnz]

Here is the PSD for Dixie swinging on the rope.

Also, please note that the in my last post, I uploaded the wrong file. I didn't put the correct file for DK going down the two ropes. It is there now.

*EDIT* due to a newer version of Dixie swinging, this one has been removed.

[Phyreburnz]

Here are the simple DK and Kiddy floating PSDs:

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Kiddy swinging PSD done! :D

*EDIT* Due to a newer version of Kiddy swinging, this one has been removed.

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Kiddy up two ropes. Reverse animation for going down.

[Phyreburnz]

Here's the PSD of DK on a hook.

*EDIT* I fixed his one shoulder.

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I fixed up the DK on two rope animations. Here are the PSDs.

[Phyreburnz]

Dixie crawling

*EDIT* Due to a newer version of Dixie crawling, this one has been removed.

[Phyreburnz]

Here are the PSDs for DK and Kiddy on the honey wall and DK going from one rope to two.

*EDIT* Due to a newer version of DK on honey, this one has been removed.

[Phyreburnz]

Here are the PSDs of Dixie and Kiddy on a ledge, Kiddy dropping jaw, Kiddy crawling, and DK with a bass. The Kiddy on the ledge contains all of the ones I took out in the second animation, for anybody that wants to use it.


Dixie on Ledge removed, due to update.

[Phyreburnz]

Here is the PSD for Kiddy on drums. Also, within the DK on bass sprites is the beginning and ending sprites for when he beats the level. I'll upload the animation where the others are.

[Phyreburnz]

Beginning and end PSDs for Kiddy on drums

[Simion32]

Thread has been split off.

Also; anyone may contribute here, as long as you don't require anything more than a name mention (in a location of my choice in distributions, obviously). No GPL, sorry.

[Phyreburnz]

I kinda figured you'd eventually make this a separate thread!

Have you been able to use the PSDs okay? I had some troubles because when using the animation window, the objects in the layers like to jump around.

[Simion32]

I haven't had any time to actually put them to use, sorry. Have been working on DELTA.

[Phyreburnz]

Here are the PSDs of DK throwing upward, larger victory dances of DK and Diddy, and Kiddy's victory dance.

[Phyreburnz]

Here are the sprites for Kiddy doing a ground pound, Bitey, and Bitey Snr.

I've uploaded the version of Bitey with the eye patch and Bitey Snr. without.

[Phyreburnz]

Here are the full animations (PSDs) of DK and Kiddy on the skull cart, the Kremling jumping from the unused barrel, and Reppalc.

[Phyreburnz]

Here are the PSDs for Dixie winning a DKC1 style bonus, DK throwing a snowball, and the mini animations of Dixie and Kiddy's victory dances.

[Phyreburnz]

I think that I have the big animations of Diddy complete. I didn't really edit that much for some (because I used the dancing sprites from the GBA version).
Here are the PSDs of Diddy walking, idling, and getting hit.

[Phyreburnz]

Here are all of the PSDs of the big DK sprites. They are him walking, getting hit, and idling.
Sorry for the double post, but the previous ones were downloaded, so I didn't want anybody to miss these ones.

By the way, if anybody wants to use my animations and stuff, they are more than welcome. All I ask is that you give credit. I'd prefer my real-people name for the credit with my username after (So it would look like Molly Snyder a.k.a. Phyreburnz).

[Phyreburnz]

Here are the PSDs of the mechanical Necky and Winky with the tongue attack.

Here is the alternate Mecha Necky/Mechy.

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Here is the PSD for Klink.

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Here is the DK and Kiddy barrel PSD.

[Phyreburnz]

Here is the PSD for the green Rock Kroc in a barrel and the freezing barrel Krem, KoolFreeze.



Here is the fire barrel Krem, FireKracker.


Since the animations of them dying will be easy to do, I'm just going to add them here and not actually upload an animation.

*EDIT* I've deleted the files and fixed them in the next post.

[Phyreburnz]

I have fixed the animations of FireKracker and KoolFreeze. I've also uploaded the PSD of Bakwards.

[Phyreburnz]

Sorry about this... I had to fix a few things. Here are KoolFreeze, FireKracker, and Bakwards, fixed! This should be the last time I have to do this! Also, one of the frames is not used in the regular animation. That frame is for when a Kong jumps on them.

I also removed the previous ones, so nobody gets confused...

[Phyreburnz]

Here is the PSD for Diddy holding a heavy Kong.


*EDIT* this one is Diddy walking with the heavy Kong.

[Phyreburnz]

Here is the PSD for Diddy teaming up with a heavier Kong.

[Phyreburnz]

Okay, this next one is going to be all the frames for my last Diddy animation. This includes all the frames of him with a heavier Kong (teaming up, idling, jumping, moving, and throwing). There are 70 some frames and they are not all edited, but they are in order to show you how everything goes to make it easier, so you don't have to figure out what goes where.

[Phyreburnz]

This is going to be similar to my last update. Not every frame is edited, but everything is included to show the order of the animations.

This is everything for DK teaming up.

[Phyreburnz]

Here is the PSD for Dixie swinging on the rope. This is the one that I've fixed up.

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Here is the NEW PSD of Kiddy swinging and Rambi swimming.

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Here are the PSDs of Expresso digging and Winky swimming.

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Here is the newest version of DK holding onto Squawks and DK on honey, DK in the toboggan, and Klink in the toboggan.