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Star Haven Documentation

Sprites

Sprites are the animated characters of the world and of battles, such as Goombas and Toads. Each sprite is a folder in sprite/npc/, such as sprite/npc/Goomba/. To add one, right-click sprite/npc in the Filesystem and select New > Sprite.

To edit a sprite, open its SpriteSheet.xml. The sprite editor's Outline lists the sprite's animations, rasters, and palettes.

Rasters

A raster is one of the sprite's images, such as a frame of its walk. Rasters are PNG files in the sprite's rasters/ folder, and each one must be an indexed PNG with at most 16 colors.

To add a raster:

  1. Add its image to the sprite's rasters/ folder. Copying one of the sprite's existing rasters and editing the copy keeps its colors in the same order as the sprite's palettes.
  2. In the Outline, right-click and select New Raster.

Palettes

A palette is a set of 16 colors that the sprite's rasters are drawn with. Palettes are PNG files in the sprite's palettes/ folder. Each raster has a palette it's drawn with, and other palettes recolor the same rasters, such as for the Red Goomba and Hyper Goomba.

To add a palette, add its PNG to the sprite's palettes/ folder, then right-click in the Outline and select New Palette.

If you change a raster's or palette's PNG outside the sprite editor, right-click in the Outline and select Reload Images to see the change.

Using a sprite

Refer to a sprite's animations by the names in its header, such as ANIM_Goomba_Idle from sprite/npc/Goomba.h. Sprite IDs follow the sprites' names in alphabetical order, so they change when you add or remove a sprite.