Shmup sprite packs...?

LamptonWorm · Post by **LamptonWorm** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:52 am

Hi,

Does anyone know if there are any shmup sprite packs out there? Not ripped stuff btw...

Cheers

Fost · Post by **Fost** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:07 pm

Are you looking for something you can use legally in homegrown shmups? Or for specific game sprites? (Actually, this might be semi-oibvious from your no rips comment

- I just wasn't sure exactly what you are after)

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:09 am

Reiner's Tilesets are free, even for commercial games. Not much for shmup stuff, but some of the backgrounds might be useful.

LamptonWorm · Post by **LamptonWorm** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:10 am

Hi,

I was after stuff you could use legally. I'm not quite at a stage where I need to worry too much about graphics, so I just thought I'd see what options where there for later down the line. I came up with...

- do them myself
- buy them
- find free ones
- ask someone else to do them

I might just use coloured blocks, afterall playability is the most important thing

Cheers.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:16 pm

Amen to the do-it-yourself comment.

You can get started here in learning how best to do it.

What I like to do, personally, since I'm doing my own Shmup project as well, is to Draw Big, and then shrink it down to a reasonable size using Bilinear Resampling and the image turns out great and you can clean up whatever you feel needs more detail.

Super Mega C · Post by **Super Mega C** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:17 am

Since there's so many people here doing their own shmups do any of you know any good equations and such for getting the points along a vector, for bullets and projectiles fired and various angles across the screen. I've been playing a lot of Gunbird2 on the DC and I'm courious about whay kinds of formulas they use to make all those goovy bullet patterns.

raiden · Post by **raiden** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:27 pm

I've been playing a lot of Gunbird2 on the DC and I'm courious about whay kinds of formulas they use to make all those goovy bullet patterns.

I think you should start a new thread for this, and to go practical, add examples of which bullet patterns you are talking about. A small .avi file consisting of just the pattern would be ideal, but for people who know the game a screenshot would probably suffice. The topic has no link to "shmup sprite packs", though.

fog · Post by **fog** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:18 am

Hi Lampton Worm,

I'm all in favour of the use temporary coloured blocks method.....and then just leave them in

Limefly have a few but not many

or there's a very simply tut to get you started.

LamptonWorm · Post by **LamptonWorm** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:16 am

Cool, thanks.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:43 pm

I also saw a link to an open-source sprite set that includes some free shmup sprites HERE