Question about sprites....!!

[DragonfruitClock]

If try to take sprites from a webpage... but, say they have a gray background. Well, I try to delete the background in adobe photoshop. I copy the certain sprite I want, but when I put it in flash the background comes back! Please, what should I do!?!

[SmokeBombClock]

At 10/18/02 11:52 PM, DragonfruitClock wrote: If try to take sprites from a webpage... but, say they have a gray background. Well, I try to delete the background in adobe photoshop. I copy the certain sprite I want, but when I put it in flash the background comes back! Please, what should I do!?!

Sounds like you didn't completely get rid of the background, or you might be talking about something else...no matter how clean a sprite is, it can and will usually have some kind of "border" or "box" around the sprite anyway when imported into flash.

[Apeman505]

If you absolutely can't get rid of the background, try either using the 'trace bitmap' option and deleting the solid color, or 'breaking' the picture and manually cutting out the background.

[Darkswordsman]

At 10/18/02 11:52 PM, DragonfruitClock wrote: If try to take sprites from a webpage... but, say they have a gray background. Well, I try to delete the background in adobe photoshop. I copy the certain sprite I want, but when I put it in flash the background comes back! Please, what should I do!?!

I have a question, how do you cut sprites period? I keep asking, but I never get an answer.

[Apeman505]

In order to get sprites yourself, you have to download an emulator and some roms. Then while playing the rom you take screenshots of all the sprites. The only problems with this is that emulators and roms are illegal since they infringe upon the copyrights of the games' creators, since Nintendo and such only came out within thirty years ago and the copyrights expire after thirty years. That means that virtually every game still is copyrighted. Still and all, so many people do it that nobody really cares anymore. (Nintendo sure is pissed off, though) So, yeah, I think you can download ZSNES (a good Super Nintendo emulator) at www.zsnes.com, but you'll have to google search for roms. A good NES emulator is NESticle, but I don't recall what the website is. I know there's a link to it on www.i-mockery.com, just look under the hacked rom reviews.

[DragonfruitClock]

I know how to get sprites, I have a whole sheet of them, but what happens is in adobe I take out the background, use the box tool to highlight a sprite, and then copy and paste it into flash, but once I paste it in, there is a white background behind the sprites (and the background of my vid is black). Clear things up a bit?

[Dark-Knight]

I Hope i dont get the same problem i am going to make a flash movie with sprties soon !

[o0OTurtleO0o]

Once you erase the background, select the sprite and move it to a different layer. Then delete the original layer. After you do all that you should change the file type to .gif , this will allow transparency

I don't know about photoshop cause I use photodeluxe, but it should work the same.