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Mar 3, 2006, 03:44 AM
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Cool Jazz2 Sprite Editor

Foreword: I don't often start threads; in fact I'm sure have never created a new thread in this forum, so I'm going to attempt my best to make sure this one is as exciting as possible.

Story: Having been around the JazzJackrabbit Community Forums for a while, I notice that sprite rips are a very popular phenomenon. I myself have no use for these rips because I lack the time and motivation to make my own fangame. Anyway, the sprite rips also commonly spawn the discussion of another important issue, a sprite editor. Using the Search function, I found that there was no mention of such a program on the JazzJackrabbit Community Forums. So I thought, if there exists sprites, there must have existed sprite editors in the first place. In the spirit of discovery, I decided to do my own digging. Since the level editor was called Jazz Creation Station, I decided to do a google search for "Jazz Destruction Station". To my surprise, it returned exactly one result. But since the server was no longer available, I turned to an alternative. I copied the address into the Wayback Machine, and surprise, it returned exactly one result. To my dismay, the site was empty except for a few keywords. Digging around, I found that this site actually had exactly one link. So I clicked on it. It brought me to this wonderful website which downloaded candy and lollipops into my CD tray. I clicked on every single link. One of them even printed money from my 3.25" floppy disk slot. I became a very happy man. Eventually I grew up and became a successful billionaire. I hired a team of geniuses to work on a sprite editor and a time machine. So I sent the sprite editor back to my younger self in 2006. Eveything was perfect until I finally convinced myself that this story was fake. Ouch.

Anyway, so where was I? Oh right, the sprite editor. Even though I can't draw very well, I used the sprite editor to alter a few images, and ended up with stuff that looked like this:

Exporting Tweedle to GIF

Spaz vs CrimiClown

Spaz vs Green Weasel

Redrawing 1up sprite


As an experiment, I ran the first level (Dungeon Dilemma, castle1.j2l) using the modified sprites. Some of these sprites were inspired by currently active members in the community. There are also other modified sprites you might notice.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Credits
Guest starring, in order of appearance:
Unknown Rabbit as the Spaz Icon
Fawriel as the Turtle
Pacman as the Dragon
CrimiClown as the Bat
The result, recorded with FRAPS, looked something like this (9.95 MB). For a 2m21s video compressed under XviD, 10MB was the best compromise I could get between size and quality. The video is meant to be a benchmark of the sprite editor's ability. Do note however that the animations were done by hand, and therefore look ugly.

I hope I made you very confused. Nevertheless, I look forward to seeing/hearing your comments.
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<TABLE border=1><TR><TD>Facts:
Jazz Sprite Dynamite (JSD)
Tileset Extractor
Neobeo's Firetruck

</TD><TD>Myths:
Jazz Creation Station Plus (JCS+) - 10%
Coming soon - a dedicated server! - 25%
Jazz Sprite Dynamite v2 (JSDv2) - 2%
Another generic single-player level - 0%
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