The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:38 pmI need your opinions guys! Always Strugling with this one
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:38 pmRe: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 2:02 pmSprites. Period; Just make sure they're twice the original size to resize them to 50 in Pivot to get anti-aliased sprites when turning on the super sample4.
Re: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:57 pmSifter wrote:Sprites. Period; Just make sure they're twice the original size to resize them to 50 in Pivot to get anti-aliased sprites when turning on the super sample4.
This. Though I haven't considered purposefully oversizing them to shrink them in Pivot. Maybe next time I use text sprites I'll do that.
Re: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 3:43 amnah i wouldn't bother doing that. if you resize, rotate or make it transparent or flip it, it'll become more laggy. however, make sure you save the text sprites as anti-aliased or otherwise you'll have a headache.
Re: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 3:59 amMS Paint (the older version, like XP version) usually works perfectly fine for me.
I remember I started using the new MS Paint, the text kept getting coloured pixels around it.
Try downloading the XP version of MS Paint, might work for ye'
I remember I started using the new MS Paint, the text kept getting coloured pixels around it.
Try downloading the XP version of MS Paint, might work for ye'
Re: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:38 amActually, paint.net does a wonderful job at creating alaised sprites because you can easily switch between alias and anti-alias in a second.
Here, let me make a quick demo:
step one
step two
The result should be something like this
Here, let me make a quick demo:
step one
Spoiler:
step two
Spoiler:
The result should be something like this
Re: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:26 pmWhat if you're background is a different colour though, Sifter?
Re: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:48 pmIf you go to the Pivot manual, you should be able to see that Pivot crops the color of the bottom left pixel. Since the bottom left pixel was white there, everything that was white had got cropped. If you want to keep the whole thing, add one pixel to the bottom left corner that's colored differently than the rest of the image.
Re: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:53 pmAh, that solves a lot of problems. Thanks. :D
Re: The best way to add text into pivot animation
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:22 amA problem with sprites is that, when one is on the screen, after export you see it changes the tint of the frames they're on. Sifter knows a way to fix it with GIMP but way too much effort imo.
I guess either go through the effort for an alphabet pack, or go through the effort for after-animation editing.
I guess either go through the effort for an alphabet pack, or go through the effort for after-animation editing.