I think you'll need to mask the sprite. Otherwise the water will move with Reuben.

Yeah you'll definitively need to do some masking for this, else it will look strange if there's a water square surrounding Reuben.

What I think is that as soon as Reuben arrives on gray water tiles, it should switch to sprite masking mode, but only use the alternate Reuben tile if you are on a full water tile, not one that is half land half water. That way it won't look like Reuben head is popping out of the grass.

Masking mode when walking in water will provide the slowdown you need there too

Lol thanks. I wonder, though, if for a swimming sprite the hat is too high when he moves left/right?

Don't you already have a custom font for the NPC convos and some stuff? I thought those looked nice. Unless you mean for the rest of the text? You could always ask tr1p1ea because he has some I think.


The pixel art subforum would be the best place to ask, though.

Oh look, it's a battle!

The slime sprite looks different

I converted with sourcecoder

There is also a pixel in Reuben hat that is the wrong color (the black border has a light gray pixel)

lol? I ripped the sprite from reuben1

EDIT: Reuben can swim now without looking ugly

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That looks great! Also, if you want the water moving animation, you'll have to animate the tile underneath Reuben. If you're redrawing the map every frame, animating tiles is super easy and takes almost no extra processing time, you just change the tile id when you go to draw the sprite. For example, if reading your tilemap gets you tile 30, if it's time to draw the next animation you change it to tile 31 (or whatever the next tile in the animation sequence is). Animating just the tile underneath Reuben might be a bit more complicated, but still shouldn't take up too much processing time, just redrawing the tile underneath him before you draw his sprite. The same with masking the sprite. Drawing one masked sprite won't cause any noticeable slowdown.

Did you add the swimming sprites in? Let's see some screenshots!

You could maybe have some little particles trail behind him when he walks in water, like a sort of wake from a boat. Definitely looking forward to the demo!