Editing help

Oh... So if we wanted to change my char sprite, I have to edit from the original one? I just downloaded a character sprite sheet off of the internet and tried it.. And when I mean by sheet is for example, I would just do save target as png, http://www.allacrost.org/media/art/sprites_map_laila.png
then open it using the program. (It wasn't this sprite sheet, but a more 2d like one, where I got it from http://charas-project.net/charas2/index.php)

Ok so when I use this sprite sheet and use it as my main char, the char is just that sheet, it looks just like the one on the link I gave. Even when I start the game. Basically a moving sprite sheet

 

nvm I guess I have to edit the original one... That's gonna take forever lol
Is the background and platform the same way? I have to edit the original?

 

Egh...

Remember, don't double post...
There's an edit button for a reason....

Yes, you've gotta edit the originals.
Cave Story uses the sprites in a certain way, pulling them out of the files at specific points, so just throwing in a random sprite sheet will not work.
Unless you do even more work and Hex/Assembly hack how the game loads the sprites.
That goes for Backgrounds and Tilesets, too, but they don't require as much work, being still-sprites and having no animations.

 

ah thanks so much for clearing that up for me! and I forgot about the edit button xd
BTW, is there any other colors I could use beside the one given by the template on CE?

 

Colourz

Saving the BMP as 24-bit gives you a limitless amount of colours, just try using another program, like Paint.
After you're done with the file, if you go to Cave Editor and change the EXE's name {Add a space or delete one}, it'll reload all of the .PBMs and re-add the (C)Pixel bit for you.

 

Well the CS engine can only handle 4-bit and 8-bit bitmaps, so you will always have limited colors. You can edit the color palette using a hex editor though. The offset is 0x36 and each color is stored as 4 bytes (I can't remember if it's blue, green, red, unused or unused, blue, green, red).

 

Well the CS engine can only handle 4-bit and 8-bit bitmaps, so you will always have limited colors. You can edit the color palette using a hex editor though. The offset is 0x36 and each color is stored as 4 bytes (I can't remember if it's blue, green, red, unused or unused, blue, green, red).

I have 32-bit bitmaps in my mod.
It can handle 32-bit bitmaps.

 

Yeah...

Yeah, my mod uses 24-bit O.o;
Cave Story can handle whatever you throw at it, if it's a .BMP :eek:

 

I clicked edit pallete and then I get a whole lot of choice, even though I didn't add or change anything... I guess it's 'coz it's a recent version?

Anyway, I made a fresh character with brown hair, it's pretty cool xd

 

Eh?

Are you still using Cave Editor's built-in paint editor?
Just go use another program that can save the file as a .BMP, it'll be a lot easier and have more freedom.

 

ohhh... darn lol I was using the built in paint editor. It's pretty decent, aren't the other paint programs the same? just with more functions?

 

*shrug*

Well, in my opinion, something simple like Paint is ten times easier than Cave Editor's built-in .PBM editor.
A lot of other people use other programs, too, but it's ultimately up to what you find is the easiest.
Have you used something like Paint, before?

 

yea I used paint long time ago. I might give it a try later, maybe for tilesets.
Thanks void, and everyone else who replied!