10 / 10 for the tutorial. Very easy to follow, the steps are explained in a way that is easy to understand, most importantly is that the tutorial is not rushed.
I can appreciate how we don't need to animate every movement of all limbs, we can just go to the timelines and move limbs at different parts and the game automatically moves the limbs in that direction. I'm not sure if I just haven't found this yet or it isn't a thing, I'd love if you could preform an attack that freezes the enemy, like Subzero and his ice ball in Mortal Kombat.
You can set a hit stun override in the hitbox properties that gives a pretty good freezing effect - a few people in our Discord community have done that!
You can set a hit stun override in the hitbox properties that gives a pretty good freezing effect - a few people in our Discord community have done that!
@@twinguy9633besides if you own the stuff you make there's no reason you can't use it for your own game and then promote your game by making the MC available to players here kind of like a crossover. Like what smash bros does adding heroes from other games
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for and more! I wanted to make a fan-made fighting game with Hololive characters, let's see how long my patience will last!
I just downloaded this and I am really enjoying it, but as a little sugestion could you add a pivot axis for rotation like in any 3d modeling engine? you know the red, blue green circle
I can call this one step up from my Mugen character development at this rate. Although I plan to do my stuff for both personally. I've got this as soon as I saw it and just in 3 hours before deals were off so I'll start getting to work, but this is actually 2.5D so it's higher than my usual! Time to get to work.
My biggest gripe is the image quality of the characters, that's something I'd like to see be improved. I'd like to make characters that looks as clean as I can draw them in other programs like Clip Studio.
There are some questions I have. Is there any function for holding down any button? Like, if you press an attack, your character does something, but if I hold down the button, the character would do something else. I will give you an example: I want to make a character with guns, but the character also uses the guns for melee attacks. So if I press A, he would punch the enemy with the guns. But, if I hold down each attack, the character would shoot too. Another example: My character would do a quick spin if I press the B button, but if I hold down the button, can I make him keep spinning? Another question: Some Smash characters have a B down movement where they counter enemy attacks, they reject projectiles, or they slow down the enemy for a few seconds. Would that be possible too? And the last question: Can I upload my own sound effects for the attacks?
I can see great potential for this as a pixelart learning tool. On top of the other things it seems to be amazing at. I just want a tool i can doodle with and put it into a game no matter at what point of pretending to be completed it is. And so far this seems to be it.
I hope you put a checkmark in there to mark the public creations as nsfw or slightly nsfw. Not because that is what i want from the editor. Because i just want to dick around with it, and i'm sure many people think about it in the exact same words and this is on the internet and you know what that means. If there is not a specific category for immature joke characters they are going to flood everything. And yes it is my opinion that those should not be banned altogether. Because it's funny as heck, just not if it slaps you in the face, metaphorically but yep i do find that metaphor really fitting. And funny..
My main problem with this system so far is that I can’t seem to find a way to devide one sprite into having multiple body parts, I think that they should add a sorta cut sprite feature for that, I know you can import the same sprite multiple times and just select different parts but that’s kinda inconvenient and inpersise, so I would recommend just adding like a sprite cutter tool if that makes sense. But it’s still a very great system, honestly it’s better than most of the professional animation tools I’ve been looking at for my stuff that’s kinda my only problem with it.
Do you guys have a developer software that does this (w/body shaping & scuplting)? This can be very useful for game development. I can see a lot of devs paying for this. Very amazing.
what is the point of adding roundness in the 3d section? this was lost on me on why it was necessary in a 2d fighting game, are there times where the angle of the camera will change?
Sorry for the late reply on this! We weren't getting notifications from videos earlier in the year. If you're interested to give it another go, we just released a polished new beta version of the game that fixes issues with controller detection. Both ps4 and xbox controllers should work without a problem!
This looks absolutelly amazing but I got one question, will you be able to import sprites you have already made on something like aseprite or will you have tk completely re draw it
Rather than game i am interested in animation aspects of the game. Before i buy this, will i be able to save the animation or make it as a GIF? I saw the max height is 128pixels (256 in future update) can i just make the head as to fill up all the space? Or add letters or bring out items during idel or taunt animations?
You can export as a png sprite sheet any use a multitude of online websites to convert those sprite sheets to gifs. 256x256 canvas is currently available. You can add custom sprite layers, like letters and fire on top of your rig!
I would (for the full release) have like a character/ template for most major weapon types especialy swords and dual swords than i just havw to adjust the specials and i can make link or my oc
Hey, Could you explain how the sprite is rendered - especially this rotation effect? Do you create 3D mesh based on the sprite and the height map and maybe orthographically project the sprite? How does it work.
I have a question is there a limit to how large a character can be, not necessarily as big as a stage but a character that’s large enough to make characters that resemble the street fighter alpha art style.
There are limitations on the resolution of the sprites: sprites can only be 128 pixels tall and 256 pixels wide currently (an upcoming update will allow a height of 256 pixels) You can increase the scale of the drawing canvas to create characters that are MASSIVE like bosses- but the resolution of the sprites needs to be within the limits above
Based on the limitations they gave you, you should be able to import a sprite that resembles an alpha character. Zangief is the biggest character in alpha and he's 116 pixels tall.
Im thinking about getting this game i have a couple of questions Is it possible to make a four legged fighter?( I got a character in mind who is a dragon) And is possible to add alts? (Like choosing between a blue or purple shirt)
I'd recommend checking out our newer tutorial! 4 legged characters are completely possible! Even 8,19, or 12 legged characters! Alts are something devs would like to implement in a future update.
When you export an animation, it creates a png spritesheet that contains all the sprites from the animation (each sprite is added to a cell in the spritesheet, but not exported as a separate png file). You can then import that spritesheet into another editing program as layers, convert it to a gif, use it in another game, or whatever you'd like!
For anyone on the fence about getting this, get it. The character creation is amazing but if you're not all about making a character and just want to fight as the fun ones you've probably seen the community create, you're 100% welcomed to do that as well.
You can, and a fair number of artists in our Discord are exporting sprites for use in their own projects! Heads up that max image size supported is 256x256, so it's ideal for character animation or objects that aren't too large (not full scenes)
Sorry about the lag in the early version of the game! We just released a new, polished beta version with significant performance improvements. If you have a chance to try it, we'd love to hear how it goes!
Completely destroyed my art, added a horrible black border, severed pieces for no reason. The rigging tools are borderline non functional if your character is drawn in anything less than 1080x1080
@DivineBeingOfJustice no, I mean the animation tool detaches arms and limbs during movement, the rigging tools don't work. Have you ever actually used the program?
@@eternalgenius7375 yes. ive been playing with it for a couple days, maybe move the arms and limbs? your the one making the animation so its your fault if anythings detached
I don't get one thing: Can I use this to make my own movements/animations, or is it just in-game? Meaning, can I get this software, create a character, have him do idk, a flying lotus pose to represent he's meditating, or have him do pushups and such, and then export it as a video? Thanks :) EDIT: ok I've blind bought it because it seems awesome regardless, but meddling with the character editor I've noticed one thing that I don't know how to fix... I edited Kaien's model so I could keep his moveset and appearence while slightly changing some details, such as the clothes and hair colour. However I notice that most of the animations have the modified character but some, like the attacks ones, have the standard Kaien model regardless. Is this supposed to be normal? Is there a way to fix it without me having to re-do the whole edit? Thank you :)
Hey, sounds like you were able to answer your first question! (For anyone else seeing this, yes- you are able to export your animations as spritesheets and use them in any project) For your question about the Kaien template: a few of the animations had baked sprites that aren't part of the animation rig (allowing some extra effects like smear, etc). Our dev team meant to clean all of those up, but may have missed a few on that template- you can just delete the Sprite timeline and make sure the Animation Rig timeline is enabled, and it should be fixed 👍🏻
You can get the game right now in Steam Early Access: smackstudio.com/steam
There is so much potential in this. I love the game idea, but the editor for this price is just beautiful.
This looks absolutely incredible. The system with 2d sprites being 3d is something I'm super excited about. Just such a cool concept.
Recently got my steam back and can't wait to make my DND Cherecters in Smack
Let's gooo! Can't wait to see what you come up with!
10 / 10 for the tutorial. Very easy to follow, the steps are explained in a way that is easy to understand, most importantly is that the tutorial is not rushed.
I can appreciate how we don't need to animate every movement of all limbs, we can just go to the timelines and move limbs at different parts and the game automatically moves the limbs in that direction.
I'm not sure if I just haven't found this yet or it isn't a thing, I'd love if you could preform an attack that freezes the enemy, like Subzero and his ice ball in Mortal Kombat.
You can set a hit stun override in the hitbox properties that gives a pretty good freezing effect - a few people in our Discord community have done that!
You can set a hit stun override in the hitbox properties that gives a pretty good freezing effect - a few people in our Discord community have done that!
This is some amazing tooling you have built. Not sure about the game, but it could be used to make some cool indie games if repurposed.
yeah the idea to make it a game is like having a gold mine infront of you and you decide to go for the coal mine
@@twinguy9633you can still use it in other projects
@twinguy9633 the editor seems really useful, but the game itself is a very cool idea. Like halo forge or super Mario maker
@@twinguy9633besides if you own the stuff you make there's no reason you can't use it for your own game and then promote your game by making the MC available to players here kind of like a crossover. Like what smash bros does adding heroes from other games
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for and more! I wanted to make a fan-made fighting game with Hololive characters, let's see how long my patience will last!
Please lmk how it’s going
This is a very helpful guide! Thank you!
Glad to hear it!!
I might give this a try. i hope a syatem or another version of this gets made that covers tradition 2d fighters
Wow, this saves so much time redrawing your sprite
I just downloaded this and I am really enjoying it, but as a little sugestion could you add a pivot axis for rotation like in any 3d modeling engine? you know the red, blue green circle
This. Took me a minute to figure out how to rotate some of the limbs
How about a tutorial for imported characters?
This is amazing super interested in trying this!
I can call this one step up from my Mugen character development at this rate. Although I plan to do my stuff for both personally. I've got this as soon as I saw it and just in 3 hours before deals were off so I'll start getting to work, but this is actually 2.5D so it's higher than my usual! Time to get to work.
Love this tutorial! Buying early access today!
It will never stop being mesmerizing to see the 2d sprite turn 3d
My biggest gripe is the image quality of the characters, that's something I'd like to see be improved. I'd like to make characters that looks as clean as I can draw them in other programs like Clip Studio.
There are some questions I have.
Is there any function for holding down any button? Like, if you press an attack, your character does something, but if I hold down the button, the character would do something else.
I will give you an example:
I want to make a character with guns, but the character also uses the guns for melee attacks. So if I press A, he would punch the enemy with the guns. But, if I hold down each attack, the character would shoot too.
Another example:
My character would do a quick spin if I press the B button, but if I hold down the button, can I make him keep spinning?
Another question:
Some Smash characters have a B down movement where they counter enemy attacks, they reject projectiles, or they slow down the enemy for a few seconds.
Would that be possible too?
And the last question:
Can I upload my own sound effects for the attacks?
I can see great potential for this as a pixelart learning tool. On top of the other things it seems to be amazing at.
I just want a tool i can doodle with and put it into a game no matter at what point of pretending to be completed it is. And so far this seems to be it.
I hope you put a checkmark in there to mark the public creations as nsfw or slightly nsfw. Not because that is what i want from the editor. Because i just want to dick around with it, and i'm sure many people think about it in the exact same words and this is on the internet and you know what that means. If there is not a specific category for immature joke characters they are going to flood everything. And yes it is my opinion that those should not be banned altogether. Because it's funny as heck, just not if it slaps you in the face, metaphorically but yep i do find that metaphor really fitting. And funny..
i only have one question, you can export animations for programs like unity??
My main problem with this system so far is that I can’t seem to find a way to devide one sprite into having multiple body parts, I think that they should add a sorta cut sprite feature for that, I know you can import the same sprite multiple times and just select different parts but that’s kinda inconvenient and inpersise, so I would recommend just adding like a sprite cutter tool if that makes sense. But it’s still a very great system, honestly it’s better than most of the professional animation tools I’ve been looking at for my stuff that’s kinda my only problem with it.
Hey, really appreciate the idea! We're still working to improve the game, so we'll definitely consider that as an enhancement 🙂
Do you guys have a developer software that does this (w/body shaping & scuplting)? This can be very useful for game development. I can see a lot of devs paying for this. Very amazing.
Currently Smack Studio is the only tool we supply, though we may be releasing a stand alone editor in the future!
what is the point of adding roundness in the 3d section? this was lost on me on why it was necessary in a 2d fighting game, are there times where the angle of the camera will change?
Are you able to export the custom sprites you make on this game to image files?
gonna make an attempt to make my oc in this game and nothing else. hopefully it goes good
Is Smack Studio suitable for developing sprite for export for developing games in other environments?
Hey soo im playing the early access game and my controller doesnt want to connect. Ive tried a ps4 and xbox360 controller. What should i do?
Sorry for the late reply on this! We weren't getting notifications from videos earlier in the year. If you're interested to give it another go, we just released a polished new beta version of the game that fixes issues with controller detection. Both ps4 and xbox controllers should work without a problem!
Heyo, super excited to try this out in the future! one question: am i able to export those animations and import it in my own unity project?
Yes, you're able to export animations and use them in any project!
@@SmackStudioGame even if it's for a comercial purpose?
@@armmagedon1012 Yes, that's correct- commercial usage is allowed! 👍🏻
This looks absolutelly amazing but I got one question, will you be able to import sprites you have already made on something like aseprite or will you have tk completely re draw it
Yes! Importing sprites from other projects is currently available.
@@SmackStudioGame awesome thanks!
Rather than game i am interested in animation aspects of the game. Before i buy this, will i be able to save the animation or make it as a GIF? I saw the max height is 128pixels (256 in future update) can i just make the head as to fill up all the space? Or add letters or bring out items during idel or taunt animations?
You can export as a png sprite sheet any use a multitude of online websites to convert those sprite sheets to gifs. 256x256 canvas is currently available. You can add custom sprite layers, like letters and fire on top of your rig!
@@SmackStudioGame How to set canvas size to 256x256? Or its only for animation, not for character rig?
How do you make projectile attacks? Also this game is awesome!!! Already bought
hmmm probably a good video to make for my channel
I would (for the full release) have like a character/ template for most major weapon types especialy swords and dual swords than i just havw to adjust the specials and i can make link or my oc
We will definitely have a sword template character for the full release!
The team is working on many new characters for the 1.0 launch... 🙂
@@SmackStudioGame cool someone on smashboards wanted to make a plattfighter i will suggest smack studio to him!
Could this be used to create sprites with different angles, like how the Doom engine handles sprites?
Yes!
Can you edit color pallets for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th players instead of those ugly standard multiplayer colors??
Hey, Could you explain how the sprite is rendered - especially this rotation effect? Do you create 3D mesh based on the sprite and the height map and maybe orthographically project the sprite?
How does it work.
Check our some of our other shorts that explain the algorithms process 😊
Can you insert sprites other than pixel art into the program?
I have a question is there a limit to how large a character can be, not necessarily as big as a stage but a character that’s large enough to make characters that resemble the street fighter alpha art style.
There are limitations on the resolution of the sprites: sprites can only be 128 pixels tall and 256 pixels wide currently (an upcoming update will allow a height of 256 pixels)
You can increase the scale of the drawing canvas to create characters that are MASSIVE like bosses- but the resolution of the sprites needs to be within the limits above
Based on the limitations they gave you, you should be able to import a sprite that resembles an alpha character. Zangief is the biggest character in alpha and he's 116 pixels tall.
can the characters/art not be pixelated?
Im thinking about getting this game i have a couple of questions
Is it possible to make a four legged fighter?( I got a character in mind who is a dragon)
And is possible to add alts? (Like choosing between a blue or purple shirt)
I'd recommend checking out our newer tutorial! 4 legged characters are completely possible! Even 8,19, or 12 legged characters! Alts are something devs would like to implement in a future update.
sO i was told you export each frame as an individual sprite? Is that true?
When you export an animation, it creates a png spritesheet that contains all the sprites from the animation (each sprite is added to a cell in the spritesheet, but not exported as a separate png file). You can then import that spritesheet into another editing program as layers, convert it to a gif, use it in another game, or whatever you'd like!
damn i really wanna get good at this
Can this be played on Steam Deck?
Is this project still being worked on?
It is! We just launched a new, polished beta version of the game. We're getting closer to the full game launch 😊
Are you able to paste an existing character into it?
Yes, you can import existing sprites for use in the game !
Can I use this as an sprite in Game Maker
Can you still be able to animate your character without the black outlines?
yes, just turn them off using the button next to "bake animations"
Can that sprites play on mugen games?
Yes, you can export your spritesheets and use them in any project, including mugen
@@SmackStudioGame wow nice. Where i can get this program?
@@crescentmugen on Steam!
smackstudio.com/steam
I wonder if it is possible to share a fighter to players.
You can upload your fighter to the Steam Workshop for anyone to be able to play 😊
@SmackStudioGame Awesome, thanks! I'll try that game someday!
For anyone on the fence about getting this, get it. The character creation is amazing but if you're not all about making a character and just want to fight as the fun ones you've probably seen the community create, you're 100% welcomed to do that as well.
Can I use it for just... animating?
You can, and a fair number of artists in our Discord are exporting sprites for use in their own projects! Heads up that max image size supported is 256x256, so it's ideal for character animation or objects that aren't too large (not full scenes)
@@SmackStudioGame I'm getting this game in my library ASAP
So its mugen but better?
We're definitely trying! We were inspired by older games like MUGEN and hope to make it accessible to a wider range of players 🙂
@@SmackStudioGame good . Keep it up. Mugen has 20+ years in the game. You got a lot of catching up to do lol
Mugen being free is prolly the biggest thing tho.
Tried to create a character but the editor is so laggy sadly :(
Sorry about the lag in the early version of the game! We just released a new, polished beta version with significant performance improvements. If you have a chance to try it, we'd love to hear how it goes!
@@SmackStudioGame Didn't thought you guys would reply, but thanks!
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There's suicide in this game
😱
@@SmackStudioGame holy shit
Please make a 32 bit version or else..
can you add views?
game wow
no lo compren es una estafa, no sirve para animar
Is this free aplication..??
Little mac lol
Completely destroyed my art, added a horrible black border, severed pieces for no reason. The rigging tools are borderline non functional if your character is drawn in anything less than 1080x1080
its for 200x200 bro, and its severed so you can animate it
@DivineBeingOfJustice no, I mean the animation tool detaches arms and limbs during movement, the rigging tools don't work. Have you ever actually used the program?
@@eternalgenius7375 yes. ive been playing with it for a couple days, maybe move the arms and limbs? your the one making the animation so its your fault if anythings detached
I don't get one thing: Can I use this to make my own movements/animations, or is it just in-game? Meaning, can I get this software, create a character, have him do idk, a flying lotus pose to represent he's meditating, or have him do pushups and such, and then export it as a video? Thanks :)
EDIT: ok I've blind bought it because it seems awesome regardless, but meddling with the character editor I've noticed one thing that I don't know how to fix... I edited Kaien's model so I could keep his moveset and appearence while slightly changing some details, such as the clothes and hair colour. However I notice that most of the animations have the modified character but some, like the attacks ones, have the standard Kaien model regardless. Is this supposed to be normal? Is there a way to fix it without me having to re-do the whole edit? Thank you :)
Hey, sounds like you were able to answer your first question! (For anyone else seeing this, yes- you are able to export your animations as spritesheets and use them in any project)
For your question about the Kaien template: a few of the animations had baked sprites that aren't part of the animation rig (allowing some extra effects like smear, etc). Our dev team meant to clean all of those up, but may have missed a few on that template- you can just delete the Sprite timeline and make sure the Animation Rig timeline is enabled, and it should be fixed 👍🏻
iPad?
can the characters/art not be pixelated?