Problems Importing Sprites! plz help
 

k i just switch from XP to 2003 game maker and i tried to import a Naruto Charset but it said Invalid Color Depth. Is there a way to fix it or do i have to find new sprites?



My Sprites are Attached to this thread so take a look and help if you can

Use paintshop pro or one of those "Expensive" photo eaditors and set color depth to 8bit. Simple and clean.

ooops, sorry bout this post it was an accedent, could someone delete it for me. Thanx.

That one won't work without resizing/proper placement on the charset "grid", never mind color depth, which can be fixed by opening it in MSPaint and saving as a 256-color bitmap.

Your charset is 146x204, charsets in RM2k3 must be 288x256.

They also have a "grid" that is rigid as well - your charset has 4 animations for each of the 4 directions (36.5x51) - RM2k3 has 3 animation frames (24x32 each) per direction, and 8 characters per sheet (the others can be blank if needed). As a sidenote, I have no idea how a charset with a width not divisible by 4 works in XP...

Yeah, that one won't work in RM2k3 without a bit of work.

So ya crop it a small bit then resize the canvis and boom baby.

You have to cut off one frame of animation and align each frame properly, since the ratio is off a bit (can't just reduce the whole thing by 20% or something and call it finished, parts of each character frame would overlap other frame grids)

Edit: Though now that I look at, might be easier than at first glance - if reduced by 66%/62% it gives a pretty close estimate, now it's just a matter of alignment

Edit 2: Blurry as heck though, looks awful

Good point. I just use Chars-ex

If that's one that I linked you to that you've changed, then the easiest way is to just get it off the site again.