A small or elusive supernatural being; an elf or pixie. - noun

For collision looks here

see also

• Vector Sprite
  • Anti-aliased vectors by elice and freds72.

# Editor 🖍️

Tips for the Embeded Pico 8 Editor

• to swap out a color in your sprite for another one, just select the color you want and control-click the color you’re replacing to instantly replace all of it.
• poke(0x5f2e,1) / details - prevents PICO-8 from resetting the palette when you return to the editor - this enable seeing the customized palette to draw sprite - this poke must be called inside the program, otherwise reset happens
  • poke(0x5f2e,2+1) - will keep enabled the second palette on screen (so display stay after program stop)

# External tools

• export
  • export spritesheet.png
  • import spritesheet.png
• respriter - move sprites around and have the map updated to point to the new location of your sprites ( remove the 2 square brackets on tab 5, line 375. to fix bugs on latest version)

Online editor: draw pico-8 sprites! - up to 32x32

# Collision

For collision looks here

# Sprite Animation

• The secret guide to bullets, sprites, and animations

# Basic

• Easy Sprite Animation in Pico-8 - Beginner Tutorial - cover animation as basic example
  • animation loop & boundary
  • speed setting

Assuming you have GFX 8x8 sprite available from 1 to 5, code looks like this (from How to Animate a Sprite!):

sprite = 1
x = 64
y = 64
timing = 0.25

function _draw()
    cls()
    spr(sprite, x, y)
end

function _update()
    --animate
    sprite += timing
    if sprite >= 5 then sprite = 1 end
end

# anim()

Obviously code above can be made generic (see anim()), and complefixied when dealing with non-symetrical actor (multi 8x8 sprite) (see Advanced animation).

see also

• Study notes on Pico-8 movement
• Reusable Actor Class (Quick Start Library) / github / demo

# Flipping Sprite

spr has direct support to flip sprite around x and y.

# Sprite Rotation

• tline sprite rotation/scaling
• tline sprite rotation demo/mini-tutorial
• Sprite Rotation - 64x64
• 2D transforms

# Animating Big Sprite

• How to Animate 16x16 Sprites in Pico-8
• 4x4 Sprites - use sspr()
  • sspr() is twice as slow as spr() - There are indeed ‘artificial’ costs assigned to the internal draw operations. For spr() it’s around 1 Lua vm instruction per drawn pixel, and sspr() it’s 2.

# Outline

• More efficient sprite outline
• Cloud Outline

# Generating Sprite

• Procedural Animated Sprites Using Screen Space in Pico-8 / itch.io - retro sun animation with sprite generated gradiant

# Exploding Sprite

• how to manipulate sprite pixels

# Tips

• Shadow Techniques - PEEK/POKE MERGE
• exploding sprite in particle
• draws a sprite to the screen with an outline of the specified colour
• z-index - use hash (table) indexed on z, rather than sorting sprite for drawing

# Stacked Sprites

• Beginners Guide to Sprite Stacking using Magica Voxel and GameMaker Studio 2 or any Other Engine
• Flaming Stacks: Using stacked sprites in Flame
• Sprite Stacking - How to Make a 3D Game with a 2D Engine
• Sprite stacking example

# Sprite Composer

Create animation from sprite composition

# Storing sprite

• Spritesheet To P8SCII

# see also

• Tutorial: Additional Sprite Memory
• Sprite Stacking with lighting in GameMaker Studio 2.3 - Part 1