Dynamic sprite generation

[Atria]

Is it possible to generate sprites using script on game load and still use it in prototypes?

I'm pretty sure it's not possible, just tought of asking before completely rejecting this idea.

[Rseding91]

You can layer sprites (which is what the base game does to generate the barrel icons) but that's about it.

[Atria]

So it could be possible to layer a lot of small sprites next to each other to create ilusion of one big sprite?

Is it possible to do he same with picture property of entity like this?

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picture = {
    {filename, x, y, width, height, shift, ...},
    {sprite two},
    {sprite three},
    {sprite four},
    ....
},

[darkfrei]

See car animation: layers for layers, stripes for multiple files spritesheet.

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    animation =
    {
      layers =
      {
        {
          stripes =
          {
            {
             filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/car/car-1.png",
             width_in_frames = 2,
             height_in_frames = 22,
            },
            {
             filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/car/car-2.png",
             width_in_frames = 2,
             height_in_frames = 22,
            },

By turrets you can find same layers too.

[Atria]

See car animation: layers for layers, stripes for multiple files spritesheet.

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    animation =
    {
      layers =
      {
        {
          stripes =
          {
            {
             filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/car/car-1.png",
             width_in_frames = 2,
             height_in_frames = 22,
            },
            {
             filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/car/car-2.png",
             width_in_frames = 2,
             height_in_frames = 22,
            },

By turrets you can find same layers too.

Thank you, hopefully it will work with chests.