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