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hi. this is really cool but i dont exactly understand how to make horses can someone tell me in detail

what i mean is:how to make new sprites and stuff like that for the horses, the HOW TO HORSE thingy doesnt really explain much to me

goatster1206 days ago(-1)

In the customhorses folder, you have two images: customhorsetemplate.png and customhorsetemplateBG.png!

The first one is the drawing on top of everything, the black lines.

The second one is the part you can recolor. (You can ignore this part if you want, and bake in the color in the first image!)

When you have your set done, leave them in the customhorses folder. They must be PNGs!" this part confuses me. where do i do the drawing?

l_amp205 days ago

i assume it just means "after drawing your horses, save the file as a png, then place them in the customhorses folder"
you can make pngs with almost anything, if you dont have a drawing software i recomend paint.NET as it supports transparency out of the gate

l_amp205 days ago

i will update with my findings in like a hour btw i havent actually used this yet

l_amp205 days ago

i can now confirm it is that easy

goatster1205 days ago (1 edit)

thanks! ill try this. whats the pixel size you think is best for the canvas?

l_amp205 days ago

i trippled the size and worked with a brush at ~10px and then shrunk it back down to 900x150

goatster1205 days ago

ty!

goatster1205 days ago

one last question: do i draw all of the horse frames in 1 png or put all of their frames in seperate pngs?

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