AnimShed

Hi Cory,
I am sorry to here that Animshed does not work for you as you would like.

There are two options in Animshed to stop all the sprites shifting when you are re arranging them, however this way of working might not suit everyone. This is just how AGK accepts the sprites. You have to re arrange them in order. Animshed is designed to make this arrangement easier by dragging your sprites into their positions as opposed to typing in columns and rows etc. or manually typing in your code where they are in the sprite sheet.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention and the process ( and how to improve uppon it )  will be looked into in future updates.

Fuzzy Visions aims to satisfy all their users and help them have an enjoyable creative time with Animshed.

Please let me know if you require a full refund.  

Have a great day Cory.

Kind Regards,
David Holyoake 

Hi Joe, Thank you for your question.

When you load in a whole load of sprites from one folder ( by selecting the 'NEW FOLDER' button in the bottom right corner ) and click on a '.png' sprite file, Animshed configures all the sprites to this FIRST SPRITE CLICKED and loads in all the sprites in the folder to this ratio.

Once you have loaded all the sprites into Animshed you can change the ratio by selecting the 'RESIZE SPRITES' button and then clicking on a specific sprite in the grid to resize all the sprites in Animshed to this sprite ratio.

You can also resize your sprite sheet ( shrink/expand ) from one sprite to 500 so your sprite sheet can be small to massive.

There is no need to resize outside of Animshed as this specifically done this way to make it easier for the user to quickly create a sprite sheet from many different sized/ratio sprites.

The 'SetSpriteAnimation' and 'PlaySrite' animation commands in AGK can only accept sprites of all the same ratio. They are different to loading in tiles. Which can have different ratios and sizes.

The function of Animshed to load in ALL sprites of various ratios from one folder and then manipulate, extract, rearrange or delete them once they are in Animshed is a very powerful feature as it lets you play around to see what sprites you would like to use that you might have aquired a load of sprites from other sources. Such as downloading hundreds of sprites and picking out the animation groups that you like for your game. Obviously taking into account any permissions from the original author :)

Usually ( for your game/App ) you would have one folder maybe with all the sprites to load into your AGK code with the same ratio and size to use in your animations. This makes sense.

Fuzzy Visions have tried to make the process automatic by loading in every ratio and let the user delete/edit them quickly for their project within Animshed to give an added feature to extract other creators sprites etc. Animshed keeps track of the current ratio, so the other sprites will be slightly distorted to fit with the ratio that you have selected. Animshed does not adjust the other sprites to match the selected ratio. Although . .  . if enough users require this feature, Fuzzy Visions will consider putting it in in the future. But this will start turning it into a graphics manipulation package. Which it isn't meant to be.

Please note. Apart from when you want to change the border of your sprites, the original sprites will never change. Just the 'SpriteSheet.png' that is generated when you save it from Animshed. Fuzzy Vision will create a tutorial ( in the next couple of weeks ) video to make all this clear.

Thank you for your question. Please feel free to ask any more and Fuzzy Visions will respond as quickly as possible.

Have a great day developing Joe.

David Holyoake
A fuzzy guy at Fuzzy Visions

Hi 'Lion in a box games'

AnimShed is a sprite sheet packer to store a number of sprites into one sprite graphic to load into your code so you can play animations from this one graphic. The main command to do this in AGK is the 'PlaySprite' command. This command requires that ALL your sprite are the same size.

Animshed is not a tile editor where you can have different size sprites to lay out in your game. It is used for animations.

You can load any combination of different size sprites into AnimShed and it will calculate all the other sprites to match the first one loaded. You can also change the size of all your sprites to match any other sprites once they are loaded into Animshed

If you wanted to have more than one animation sheet with different sprite dimensions, then you can have up to 5 different folder locations in AnimShed to accommodate this.

Here is an exert from the instructions ( that you can access within Animshed ) describing all this. . .

AnimShed will automatically calculate the biggest size grid to fit all your sprites in. It gets the width and height from the first sprite read in the list and calculates the overall size of the grid. If the calculated size of the grid from the first sprite if over AnimSheds limits then it calculates the grid size based on the next sprite, and so on. If you have different size sprites you can easily change the sprite size to another one once all your sprites are loaded as mentioned below.

CHANGING THE SPRITE SIZE
The anim. commands used in AGK only allow for one sprite dimension within your sprite sheet to calculate where your frames are. There is no need for different sprite sizes within AnimShed as they have to all be the same for the saved Sprite Sheet to work within AGK classic and AGK studio.

You can easily change the size of all the sprites width and height to match just one sprite. Just click on the 'RESIZE SPRITES' button and then on the relevant sprite to change all the sprites to this sprites dimensions This is very useful at the beginning when AnimShed loads a lot of sprites in.

Thank you very much 'Lion in a box games' for pointing out that the link to the AnimShed forum on the Game Creators web site is now locked. Posts in the Game Creators forum gets locked if there is no activity after a certain period. This was unfortunetly  out of my control. I shall amend the itch link to say comment within the itch web page in the future.

Thank you again 'Lion in a box games' and I hope you enjoy AnimShed and find it helpful with your game development.

Kind Regards.
David Holyoake
Fuzzy Visions