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Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2015 3:32 am**

Allow us to make Textures larger than 2048*2048

Why is this needed?
So we can use high quality animations and images.
Take the Cargo wagon as an example. Its current size is 1140x1744. If we wanted to increase the resolution in any meaningfull way then we would have to go beyond the 2048 limitation.

Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2015 4:49 am**

You can split spritesheets into separate images. This means that since there's currently 4x8 frames and 4 sheets, you could double the resolution and make the sheets 3x4 with 11 sheets.
Now 11 sheets isn't very practical, but at least it's possible.

Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:09 am**

ThaPear wrote:You can split spritesheets into separate images. This means that since there's currently 4x8 frames and 4 sheets, you could double the resolution and make the sheets 3x4 with 11 sheets.
Now 11 sheets isn't very practical, but at least it's possible.

That works if i am making new sprites, but if i am modifying exsisting game sprites then it's not an option and it still limits the sprite size.

Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:40 am**

Why isn't it an option? Are you replacing the actual game files? That's a bad idea!
Much better to provide your own files separately, and change the reference with a simple lua file (That is, a mod that only changes the sprites).

Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:26 am**

sillyfly wrote:Why isn't it an option? Are you replacing the actual game files? That's a bad idea!
Much better to provide your own files separately, and change the reference with a simple lua file (That is, a mod that only changes the sprites).

I am currently making a mod that changes the sprites. Problem is that it's using the vanilla sprites and i don't think there is a way to split up sprites. If there is then please tell

Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2015 10:06 pm**

keyboardhack wrote:I am currently making a mod that changes the sprites. Problem is that it's using the vanilla sprites and i don't think there is a way to split up sprites. If there is then please tell

I do not understand, how do you make higher quality sprites from the original sprites?
You can use any image editing application (such as GIMP (free)) to split it into multiple parts if you're editing the sprites anyways.

Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2015 11:51 pm**

ThaPear wrote: I do not understand, how do you make higher quality sprites from the original sprites?

I am using a program to do that for me. It looks very good.

ThaPear wrote: You can use any image editing application (such as GIMP (free)) to split it into multiple parts if you're editing the sprites anyways.

Sorry my question was a little misleading. I want to know how you make the game use two different sprites after each other for the same animation.

As an example i can split the Assembling-machine-3 animation up into 2 different sprites.
Now i have two sprites with half of the animation on each sprite. I need the code to understand that it has to use the second sprite after it's done with the first half of the animation on the first sprite.

Below is the game code that uses a single sprite to make the assembly-machine animation.

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    animation =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/assembling-machine-3/assembling-machine-3.png",
      priority = "high",
      width = 142,
      height = 113,
      frame_count = 32,
      line_length = 8,
      shift = {0.84, -0.09}
    },

I have been looking around and i haven't found a way for the code above to use two sprites for the animation instead of only one.

Posted: **Sun Jun 21, 2015 4:58 am**

Some entities, like the locomotive, use something like this:

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filenames =
      {
        "__base__/graphics/entity/diesel-locomotive/diesel-locomotive-01.png",
        "__base__/graphics/entity/diesel-locomotive/diesel-locomotive-02.png",
        "__base__/graphics/entity/diesel-locomotive/diesel-locomotive-03.png",
        "__base__/graphics/entity/diesel-locomotive/diesel-locomotive-04.png",
        "__base__/graphics/entity/diesel-locomotive/diesel-locomotive-05.png",
        "__base__/graphics/entity/diesel-locomotive/diesel-locomotive-06.png",
        "__base__/graphics/entity/diesel-locomotive/diesel-locomotive-07.png",
        "__base__/graphics/entity/diesel-locomotive/diesel-locomotive-08.png"
      },

Although now that I look at it, I don't see any animated sprites using this method, so I'm not sure id it's possible. I guess you can try, though...

Posted: **Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:42 pm**

Moved from Suggestions.

Posted: **Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:17 pm**

I can tell from experience that not every type of entity supports multiple spritesheets. Take the miner as an example

Though i may be wrong so take it with a pinch of salt :/
If i am correct however, then i'm sure the devs are working on it right now, and it prob will be made possible when the HD textures come

Posted: **Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:27 pm**

Yeah it looks like not all entities support multiple textures for a single animation.

Entities using the Animation https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... /Animation can use stripes to split up an animation into multiple textures.
Example from the car entity

car code

Entities using Pictures https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... atedSprite can use filenames to split up an animation into multiple textures.
Example from the diesel locomotive entity

diesel locomotive code

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