SoC Ideas Sprite Sheets2011
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Currently, all the Wesnoth unit animations are based on png images, each image representing the unit in a single pose. In a sprite sheet approach, each unit is represented by a single, huge, image where all the unit images are put on a mosaïc pattern and the game knows where to look for a given image.
The sprite sheet approach has huge gains in term of memory consumption, but there are a couple of problems that need to be solved
- How to build those huge sheets from our current images set?
- Wesnoth does not have a fixed number of frames per unit, nor does it have a fixed size for each unit frame. A naïve approach to the problem will not work.