Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Gooby2D on November 21, 2017, 10:46:44 pm

Title: Small Problem with Aseprite. Help pls ))
Post by: Gooby2D on November 21, 2017, 10:46:44 pm

Small problem, small question but i would be very happy if someone could help me out.

(https://i.imgur.com/eLSTYuV.gif)

(https://i.imgur.com/7BEXjRu.gif)

so the first one and the second one are actually the exact same except i saved the first with a grey bg
because somehow it misses out a lot of pixels when i save it with a transparent one :o

does anyone know why?

Title: Re: Small Problem with Aseprite. Help pls ))
Post by: eishiya on November 21, 2017, 11:25:51 pm

GIF only supports full or 0 opacity, it doesn't support partial opacity. On the grey background, every pixel has full opacity because there's a solid background, but with a transparent background, that's not the case. So, Aseprite rounds the opacities of your pixels to the nearest valid value, which means all pixels under 50% opacity become completely transparent, and the more visible ones are given full opacity.

Title: Re: Small Problem with Aseprite. Help pls ))
Post by: Hunited on November 22, 2017, 02:23:14 pm

Interesting, how would you need to save files that have partial opacities, then, if they're for a game for example? As a spritesheet then, and let the game engine animate it?

Title: Re: Small Problem with Aseprite. Help pls ))
Post by: eishiya on November 22, 2017, 02:43:59 pm

@Hunited: Correct, spritesheets are the way to go. You generally don't want to use animated GIFs in a game anyway, since they give you less control over when and how they animate.
For the web there's also APNG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG), but it's not supported by all browsers and there aren't many image editors that allow saving as APNG yet.