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The default sprite style “Pixel Citizen” that comes with the program has those three animations.

There are other sprite styles for Top Down Sprite Maker that have more. Here is the list of currently supported sprite styles: https://itch.io/c/5834066/top-down-sprite-maker-approved-sprite-styles

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Hi! From what I can tell, Darkwood uses an overhead perspective where the character has a free 360° range of motion. TDSM is for sprite sheets with a discrete amount of directions (usually 4 or 8). You can design a sprite style for TDSM that employs an overhead perspective, but I don’t think the program is best suited for that. Hope that answers your question!

Sprite sheets made with the Pokémon sprite styles should only be used in non-commercial projects.

Hi! Thanks for reaching out.

It is possible to get a strictly black and white export presently, but it would involve writing code to modify the color replacement logic in the manifest.tds script file of whichever sprite style you are using.

The simplest solution would be to modify the exported texture to comply with your intended palette (black and white in this case) in a pixel art editor or raster image editor like Aseprite, Photoshop or Stipple Effect as a post-processing step.

It’s unlikely that I’ll specifically add 1-bit B&W export support in an upcoming update.

Did you develop MR FARMBOY or is it someone else using your asset packs?

What is the exact format you need for Essentials in terms of sizing, layout, and padding?

Sent you the fix! Sorry about the delay

Hi! Sorry about the late response.

I made the scripting parser much stricter in the most recent version, so it caught this syntax error that I didn’t notice when I helped Shade port his asset pack to TDSM. I have emailed him the corrected ZIP file and he should upload it in the coming days. I’ll confirm with another reply to this comment once he has!

I remember when this feature was announced in the beginning of January that there would be “no coding or manifest files to worry about”. That struck me as an odd thing to say, because it seems to me that it’s the kind of thing that would only be specified to distinguish your program from a similar one that opted to go that route. What happened to your intention to implement this feature without manifest files?

That would help. Please email me at jordanbunkework@gmail.com.

Pease also let me know your Mac’s specs, including OS version, chip, and any other relevant information you can think of.

Hi.

The Steam page actually says that you won’t be able to launch the program if your OS version is older than macOS 10.15.

What happens when you attempt to run the demo?

As of now, it doesn’t. Currently most of the clothing options are modern-day civilian attire. Are there any specific sci-fi clothing elements that you would be interested in seeing?

I doubt that would work because the .dmg is just an installer that should be installing the same .app binary.

Did your Mac prompt you to run the demo through Rosetta initially? I don’t have a Mac – I use a virtual machine to build TDSM for macOS – so I’m not an expert.

I’ll look more into it and see if I can figure out a solution.

Hi!

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work on an Apple Silicon chip. What happens when you attempt to run it?

Hi!

The Pixel Citizen: Character Pack 1 asset pack that you purchased is a pack of 450 pre-made character sprite sheets, not a TDSM add-on.

THIS (the page you commented on, Pixel Citizen – Sprite Style for Top Down Sprite Maker) is the TDSM sprite style add-on. It will upload to the program as expected without an error message.

Thanks!

Yes, it is!

You can define your own sprite style, full with your own art, animations, layers. You can define literally everything that comprises the sprite style yourself.

Please consult the sprite style development guide and this tutorial video for help getting started. If you want additional help or guidance, feel free to email me at jordanbunkework@gmail.com and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

If you want more tightly packed sprite sheets, you can crop your frames by inputting negative values in the “Padding” section of the configuration screen. In that case, frames will not be 48x48, but that shouldn’t matter.

This sprite style contains elements that are the copyright of The Pokémon Company, so no.

Does it bring up the file dialog at all before it crashes?

If you are able to, please record your screen when you press (+) and the program crashes and send me the video to jordanbunkework@gmail.com.

Also, if you have a GitHub account, you can report a bug and we can move this conversation there. That will be the best place for anyone else who has this issue to find more information. If not, we can correspond here or via email.

Which operating system are you running on your computer?

Same!

Can you remind me what the sprite sheet layout that Pokémon Essentials expects is?

Hi, thanks for reaching out.

You can request specific clothing/armour additions in the Addition requests thread.

In terms of editing your own characters with custom clothing, yes, that is possible. You cannot draw new clothing options directly within Top Down Sprite Maker, but you can edit the contents of the sprite style ZIP and modify the sprite style in any way you see fit, including adding clothing assets. I have published a sprite style development guide and made a tutorial video to help you do just that.

Please let me know if you have any other questions :)

I think you’ll be happy with the script error reporting improvements if you’re still interested in making/editing sprite styles!

Thanks! Nice to hear from you again :)

It would be great to have a feature where we can upload multiple cover images for a particular project and test which gets a higher click-through rate. This would be similar to features YouTube has for A/B testing video titles and thumbnails.

Okay, noted. I’ve gotten similar feedback on Reddit.

Hi.

I think I understand the problem. To use the Time Elements sprite style with my program, you have to use the Time Elements download file that ends with _tdsm.zip, which I think is only available with the Itch.io version of Time Elements, not Steam.

I think your best course of action is contacting finalbossblues, showing him that you bought Time Elements on Steam, and having him give you a download key for the Itch.io version of his asset pack. That way, you will be able to download the version of Time Elements that you can use with my program.

I hope that clears up the issue. Sorry for the confusion. If you have any other issues with TDSM, feel free to email me at jordanbunkework@gmail.com.

Also, I am in the process of releasing TDSM on Steam. I will post a devlog once I have a release date.

Nope, I haven’t heard anything.

Thank you!

Yes, the full list of approved sprite styles, which have either been made by me or have been confirmed as compatible with the program, can be found here.

I am actively working on adding more content to some of these, adding more sprite styles, and collaborating with pixel artists to support their asset packs as TDSM sprite styles.

Right, okay. That basically confirms all my suspicions.

Thanks for your input!

Hi, I’m sorry you feel that way.

Yes, the character pack is a separate purchase. You’d basically be paying for the convenience of getting 450 character sprite sheets at once. It’s obviously possible to customize and export all the characters in the asset pack by using the sprite style in TDSM, but the asset pack saves you many hours of customizing and exporting.

The character pack is meant for people that want a large pool of potential NPCs to choose from to populate their projects. They may not even be interested in TDSM as a program.

No worries! I’ve sent you a reply to my initial email, so hopefully you should be able to find it now.

If you aren’t able to, you can email me at jordanbunkework@gmail.com and I will re-send the proposal in a reply.

Happy New Year!

Which version of TDSM are you running?

And are you pressing the plus or the curly braces to upload the sprite style?

Please also lmk what operating system you are using on your computer and any other relevant information that might help me figure out what’s going wrong :)

I haven’t heard back from her yet

Please post general comments about Pixel Citizen here.

For advanced guides, like how to edit the sprite style, see here. To request new content to be added to the sprite style, post here.