Making your character smaller?

[Adkit]

This is either an extremely stupid question or an extremely hard one...

But how do you make your character say half the size of a normal character? For when you go out into a worldmap-screen and you want your guy to look tiny. I'm not sure how if it's possible, can you just reduce the size of the char-set in photoshop or is that no good? x.x

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Insert this below Scene_Debug and above Main

class Game_Character

  attr_accessor :zoom

  alias_method :seph_simplezoom_gmchr_init, :initialize

  def initialize

    @zoom = 1.0

    seph_simplezoom_gmchr_init

  end

end

 

class Sprite_Character

  alias_method :seph_simplezoom_sprchr_update, :update

  def update

    seph_simplezoom_sprchr_update

    if @character != nil

      self.zoom_x = @character.zoom

      self.zoom_y = @character.zoom

    end

  end

end

To change the player's sprite size:

$game_player.zoom = n.n

To change events size:

$game_map.events[event_id].zoom = n.n

Replace n.n with a number such as 0.5, 1.5, etc.

1.0 is the default size

 

[Adkit]

Doesn't work. Syntax error at line 5. I can only imagine it's because I'm using the pixlemovement script and that adds a different Game_Character than the default one and so on.

Is there some kind of quick way to fix that? Sorry if my hacking skillz don't heat the grillz.

 

[Unka Josh]

Here's a quick and easy way:

Export the charset that you're using. Open it in your choice of paint program.

Resize it to half the size. Save under a different name.

Re-import it, and change the graphic at will. (You'll probably want to change the player's speed, too-- Speed 4 looks a lot faster with a tiny character.)

No scripting needed.

 

[Grathea]

One thing to note - resizing can work, but if you have the spriting abilities, you might want to just find a cute little template (neoPKMN, Paradigm, etc) and sprite your character on that - that way you've still got good clean pixels, and a) smaller sprite, b) cute little overworld sprite clearly shows that the map is relative in size.

 

[Adkit]

Here's a quick and easy way:

Export the charset that you're using. Open it in your choice of paint program.

Resize it to half the size. Save under a different name.

Re-import it, and change the graphic at will. (You'll probably want to change the player's speed, too-- Speed 4 looks a lot faster with a tiny character.)

No scripting needed.

Gah, I didn't even know that was possible. x.x I thought the sprites HAD to be a certain size or something. It worked, thank you. :P

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Stupid Game_Player. Not sure why that didn't work, but ok. lol

Try this:

class Game_Character

  attr_writer :zoom

  def zoom

    return @zoom.nil? ? 1.0 : @zoom

  end

end

 

class Sprite_Character

  alias_method :seph_simplezoom_sprchr_update, :update

  def update

    seph_simplezoom_sprchr_update

    if @character != nil

      self.zoom_x = @character.zoom

      self.zoom_y = @character.zoom

    end

  end

end

That should work fine. Don't go resizing your graphics. That's just silly.