Looks great!  What's a chipset?  Do you mean tileset or is there some other term I don't know?

Yeah it's a tilesheet pretty much.  I never understood why they used it in RPGMaker when I always knew chipset the same way DawnBringer just mentioned (probably cos I too had an Amiga) though I quickly dispensed with that term for it after finding Game Maker and leaving RPGMaker behind (kinda limiting product when you don't really like RPGs).

I don't get the logic behind the usage in RPGMaker though.  What are the chips?

Then possibly a glitch in the user's code rather than GM since many games, mine included, do not have such issues.   There are multiple ways of doing these things so I can't really suggest what may or may not be the cause though.

@astral oh yeah beat 'em ups certainly can be forgiven for it due to the sheer number of frames, the size of the sprites and the memory limit of older systems being an issue which is why we accepted things like how Sagat's eyepatch would change eyes.  And relates to Dee Jay's MAXIMUM wording down his pants using all symmetrical letters. 


@bio that's looking much cooler.  I like the way his pose changes and he steadies his arm for shooting like Mega Man X and Samus do.   I like how the more relaxed pose mirrors the positions of the hand and gunarm and how the new aiming has the body turn into the gun to face the enemy. 

To be honest with you, if I had to choose, the right facing sprite vs. the left, I'd choose the left everytime. No need to be unique on something like this -- just flip the sprite. People will care MUCH more that the x value for shooting is different than about the time you spent putting into drawing a completely separate left/right standing/shooting frame. Trust me, most people will *not* think that much into it. Games have been flipping sprites for years.

Have to say it is something that bugs me in many games and why in all three of my projects the main character does have seperate left and right frames so the gun is always held the correct way (even several 8-bit games on home computers did seperate frames, SwitchBlade for example).  Mine also have front and back frames it turns through when changing direction so simple flipping just wouldn't work anyways.    It's all to do with the posing though.  Mine tend to be side on when using the guns so that

Figured I'd upload examples to show.   Excuse the blockiness.  These are from my two 8-bit Amstrad CPC projects but despite being done in different styles and proportions and holding guns in different ways they still have seperate left and right torso sprites and the gun stays in the same x position.    The Commando guys below hold their guns with two hands and are posed from side on.   RoboCop at the top holds his gun with one hand and so his body is more at an angle.   In both cases I designed them by doing one direction then flipping the sprite and erasing everything that needed to change while keeping things like the head and gun and general outline in position to then help create the new side.   Dunno if these examples help but hey you go anyway.