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Original Source
- Original title: How does Character Sprite Dividing Really Work?
- Original author: Rutsah
- Original date: August 30, 2020
- Source thread: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/threads/how-does-character-sprite-dividing-really-work.126450/
- Source forum path: Game Development Engines > Legacy Engine Support > RPG Maker VXAce Support
Summary
So... I had made a character sheet (8 characters total) using GameCharacterHub Portfolio. VX Ace displayed my characters normally, and with no problems in-game. After some playtesting, I realised they were too large for the game, so I reduced all character sheets by 20% using paint.net. Specially, I resized THE ENTIRE image by 20% (576*576 -> 461*461), yet, when I tried to use those very same files in VX Ace, which supossedly should not have cared since it's still an 8-character-sheet that's properly positioned in its own image, the sprite...
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So... I had made a character sheet (8 characters total) using GameCharacterHub Portfolio. VX Ace displayed my characters normally, and with no problems in-game. After some playtesting, I realised they were too large for the game, so I reduced all character sheets by 20% using paint.net.
Specially, I resized THE ENTIRE image by 20% (576*576 -> 461*461), yet, when I tried to use those very same files in VX Ace, which supossedly should not have cared since it's still an 8-character-sheet that's properly positioned in its own image, the sprite boxes were misallingned (see image below). I do not understand why, and I no longer have the original character sprites to just copy-paste them back in (unless Archeia manages to do some magic I asked her to).
Does anyone know what went wrong or have advice how to fix it? All help would be appreciated.
It's for my Broken Reality RPG which was just released today: https://lord-rutsah.itch.io/broken-reality-rpg
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