I'm not the world's greatest mod builder, but layer size versus unit size shouldn't be a problem. Unit and layer dimensions should be the same if possible, but this doesn't have to be necessarily so in all cases. A layer with a transparent background, no matter its size, or how many there may be, still has its own x and y offsets. You just have to piddle and fiddle about with them until they display they way you think they should. Now if your weapon layers don't have transparent backgrounds then things are gonna look pretty bad no matter what.
----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Easton To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 5:50 AM Subject: Re: [vassalengine] Layer offset >The only other solution I can think of is to make the canvas of each >weapon sprite the same size and manually edit the sprites so that they >all have a common hand point. This would unfortunately lead to larger >filesizes as smaller sprites would need to be made larger to >accomplish this. > >Does anyone have another method to solve this problem? Is this really an issue? Is is it really going to make that much of a difference to the module size? Embedding a smaller sprite into a larger transparent image will not increase the size of a PNG or GIF by much anyway. I would go with this solution - make the image size for all weapons in the layer the same size, with the common hand point. You will get a polished looking result that is easy to implement. A bit of clever graphic work beats hours of programming any day! Cheers, Brent. __________________________________________________________ Brent Easton Analyst/Programmer University of Western Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/IMSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
