i would like to know if i can put more than one spritesheet for a character

[sdfa488]

i was trying to port zibidi to codename for a thing im doing and i saw that he has 4 spritesheets and i would like to know if i can put all those 4 spritesheets together

and if i cant i would like to know how to use those 4 to atleast pretend they are the same character

[r6915ee]

You can use the name of the first spritesheet and create a folder from that in the character spritesheets directory. You then name every file numerically starting from 1.

Using the amount of spritesheets you specified, you should get something like this:

images/characters/char/
    1.png
    1.xml
    2.png
    2.xml
    3.png
    3.xml
    4.png
    4.xml

Just make sure that each spritesheet has unique frame names so that they don't conflict, as Codename loads every spritesheet in this folder at once using this setup. If for whatever reason this doesn't work, you may also want to change the imagePath property in each XML file to reflect the associated new filename for the image.

[sdfa488]

so uhh this happened

[r6915ee]

In that case, what did you set the image path to, and what is the name of the folder you created?

[sdfa488]

the folder is called zibidi and i set the path to zibidi

[r6915ee]

Hm. If you rename the character data file to zibidi.xml and then remove the sprite attribute from the file, then Codename should be able to implicitly find the file. Implicit searching should work, I don't entirely remember how explicit searching works.

[sdfa488]

it didnt do anything ;-; its like i never changed it