Hi all,
I've spent over a year now creating a tool that will let artists and game designers create the sorts of animtions found in classic Genesis games like Vectorman ad Alien soldier OR modern masterpieces like Odin Sphere for the PS2!
The tool is just today being sent to some artist friends to begin the beta testing/feedback stage.
The tool lets you create animations by combining many small images into individual animation frames. Each part can be moved, scaled, rotated, and changed in translucency. each part can also be switched between normal drawng mode, Add drawing mode, or subtract. This method is very fast for the artist, and extremely efficient for file and memory spce.
Not only does this tool let you create the animations, but it lets you put unlimited colision rectangles and "action points" per frame.
I'm hoping one or more the the briliant programmers that are part of this Construct community will create a plug in for Construct that will allow all of us to benifit from this tool. (I'm working on a Game in Construct)
For those interrested in this tool, you can download a set of short videos I've recorded showing the tool and how it works.
you can download those videos here: (sorry its a big zip file..over 100 megs)
http://www.holymonkeystudio.com/temp/SpritER%20vids.zip
Please leave feedback and help encourage the great extension developers here to help make this tool work with Construct.
Thanks much