I'm so blown away by this! This is truly revolutionary for working with Pixel Art! I started getting into game dev and have been grinding away at animations frame by frame, creating a ghost first then drawing over the ghost once I'm happy with the animation. This could save so much time and still have a similar impact in the feel of some animations. Is there plans to unmarry this tool from the game and be stand alone software? I'll definitely be buying this over the weekend and going ham on some creations! Incredible work Smack Studio! Y'all have reinvigorated my drive to over 9000!!
Thanks for checking us out! 🙂I hope it help on your game dev journey! We've gotten a lot of requests for a standalone app- we're considering that for a future release!
@@SmackStudioGame That's fantastic to hear. I hope your team is able to make that come to fruition. It will change the pixel art game development for the better I feel.
@@SmackStudioGame That will change the 2D Game development if this will have a standalone app 2d editor. I will definitely buy the standalone! Best 2D character editor to this date.
Hands down best animation program I have ever seen. And if you want to play a Smash Style fighting game you can with the character you just made!? This really is a hidden gem this better blow up when it releases
This game/program is insane. I just got it for creating my own animations for games cause I was having trouble with the time frame for creating one animation... This technology is mind boggling with how fast it makes you create characters and to animate them. To then export into another game engine with the partitions. This is saving me hundreds of hours on long term animating in other programs like Aseprite alone. All I have to do is create the look of what I want in Aseprite then import the sprite or sprites cause you got to create all their individual body parts then put them all together in Smack Studio and bam. Full working character. Damn amazing! Thank you for creating this tutorial! A standalone of this software is a must!
@@SmackStudioGame Thank you! Actually using the studio I have feedback already. 1. A choice to remove black outlines/edge lines added by the program in timeline. Not your drawn ones from original sprites. I wish you could have a button to remove them only and not yours from the finished added sprite. Plus the edges don't color in on your sprites on the edges especially if you are just doing a 2D type character for a game and all your outlines are already made and they are different colors. a) I had a head with no black outlines connecting neck to the body but the black outlines are drawn on them. Even offsetting the sprite doesn't get rid of them. b) I had clothes put on a character as an example and the outlines were all replaced by black. Like a dark yellow edge was replaced by all black. Obviously some of it due to it being 3D now. Even flattening the 3D part doesn't fix things sometimes and it can remove lines you made on the original sprite. But it does destroy sometimes your own made lines. Not all the time. 2. In the animation rig you should be able to adjust the offset in preview and could save that in the animation rig itself. Maybe even adjust the 3D placements of the sprite layers to. So you can just plop down in any place from the Animation rig your truly made character anywhere in the timelines. 3. When placing my character I saved in the timeline the sprites seem to have gone wonky and moved slightly when they were perfect in the animation rig in editor. 4. The layering system should be automatically done and offset from the position they are in the animation rig. Fixing many of the above problems. 5. I guess another would be to have a bigger tool palette like spray can and more tools when editing sprites. 6. Crashing is a problem. I have lost over 2 hours of work once already when editing in the animation rig. Clicked add sprite by clicking feature and it crashed over and over again even upon restarting and trying again. So I only use the drag feature to add my sprites. Top couple things I have had problems with so far the most. But best program I have ever used to create animations super fast. Loving the entire program! 5. I guess another would be to have a bigger tool palette like spray can and more tools when editing sprites.
I‘m planing on making a beat em up game and till now i was always thinking about how hard it would be to animate my charakters but with this awesome programm i can confidently start on it
This is amazing. Are there any new in-depth tutorials of a new character made entirely from scratch? Also, with the export feature, would it be possible to use the created sprites (and maybe even export entire models from within Smack Studio) in games of an entirely different genre? Like, say a 3D action adventure game similar to a Souls-like?
I created a char by drawing over an existing template. But this program really, REALLY needs help files and documentations so users can explore the advanced commands and techniques
Why does the description say Download FREE on Steam? Is there like a free demo of the editor on there or was the game free beforehand? Edit: Just saw the steam page is still labeled under the tags F2P and still mentions it as a F2P in descriptions even though it isn't anymore. Might want to update that.
One of my fighers is a machoke. but this machoke is a bit bigger in size. He has a force field with big hitbox that deals 20 damage, 20 knockback and 0.2 knockback scale. And his A button attack combo is very quick consisting of 8 punches that deals 10 damage without knockback and finished with a kick that deals 20 damage, 20 knockback and 0.2 knockback scale in a 56 frame space.
Love the software absolutly amazing, but i was wondering how i import my own sprites to use for animation? whenever i use the import function I can't see my sprite in the characterrig section
Hey, really glad you're liking the app! We can't post screenshots here, but if you join our discord we can help figure out where you're hitting an issue: smackstudio.com/discord We plan to release more tutorials soon that could also help!
I know this was made a while ago but how do I make it so sprite changes are linked to different animations? Like if I wanted a character to have X eyes when hit, or in the case of the video, only have Granite wear those sick glasses when they do a forward strong attack?
If you want a body part to be swapped in one specific animation (like eyes or glasses), you can add a new View to that body part in the animation rig details and draw the new details on it. Views can be swapped in and out as you animation using the "Rig Layer Configuration" tab!
my question is answered on discord. the stats can be limitless. So it could be the overal limit of 2.147.483.647 in each stat otherwise it might go in the minus. I still need to buy this game
Really appreciate it! You can disable body parts to hide them from view during an animation, so you'd be able to export specific layers by keeping the rest hidden. We don't have an official layer export tool yet!
@@SmackStudioGame Great job with the tooling so far! Are there any plans / dates to add export support? Right now the process of exporting part layers is super tedious (even the method you mentioned gets incredibly time consuming), especially if someone is working from the templates
Hey there! Loving how this works! Have one question though, when I go to export the animations, it doesn't seem to include multiple directions, so the walk animation are only to the right, however it shows a left animation in the test play so I'm confused on that.
yo can we get that sprite sheet for Cora at 15:42 or any other character, to use as a guideline for other programs like photoshop, gimp or what I use krita?
So is this tool only for Left-Right Moving Characters as it's a 2d brawler tool? Or is it possible to also use that for 4 sided (front, left, right, back) rpg characters and their movements?
We just saw you in the Discord! (thanks for joining!) In case anyone else stumbles on this, we hope to add the ability to save and reuse poses in the future. For now, you can copy and paste your keyframes into other animations
@@SmackStudioGame Thanks, btw, I really love your game, when I was younger, I had a dream to make my own platform fighter, finding this game was amazing
Hello, I know this video is kinda old, but I would like to know, why arent my sprites working on attacks? I take the Kaien template and made him blonde, in all 4 different poses his head has, i do exactly what this says, however, the blonde sprite only shows up when I move/jump, not on idle or attacks... Any help??
I made a character by drawing over the kaein character but when he does certain moves the old character show up . How can fix this . Certain kicks and punches he turn to the original character?
There are most likely sprite layers with the old drawings still on them. Make those layers invisible and the animation rig visible and your sprites should show up!
@@KennethBernardotoons The layers we mentioned are the timelines shown in the timeline pane at the top- each timeline has a name on the left. Find the timelines named "Sprites", click them to select them, and then click the trash icon to delete them. Hope that helps!
You can rescale your character by clicking on Stats (in the top left corner), and then changing the Scale value. We also will release an update in the near future allowing you to move the canvas around for any type of sprite (currently, you need to set it as an Effect Layer in the Sprite Layer Properties in order to move it around)
I'm loving this game so far, but I can't figure out something, what are "right axis value" and "up axis value"? I swear I've tried to figure them out but I've gotten nowhere.
Do you mean the variables in the character editor? Those are numeric values that tell you what direction the player is pressing on the control stick or movement keys, ranging from -1 to 1 (for right axis, a value of -1 means the player is pressing left. For up axis, a value of -1 means the player is pressing down.)
@@SmackStudioGame I took a screenshot of the thing I'm talking about. It seems inconsistent, but that might be because I tested it with a key board drive.google.com/file/d/1ldcJg-tTkSUGmALIhHgQrWDlYr_PXRjm/view?usp=drive_link
Im trying to create a completely custom character and ive finished the design but for some reason the characters invisible, im not sure what im doing wrong, if anyone knows can you please help me?
Sorry for late reply- we don't check the comments here often! You can use the action "Clear Player Hit Flag" between your hitboxes to allow each hit to connect with the other players. If you need any more help, you can join the Discord! smackstudio.com/discord
Sorry for late reply- we don't check the comments here often! Click "3D" in the camera view pane in the bottom left corner, then hold down right click to look around. If you need any more help, you can join the Discord! smackstudio.com/discord
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Join our Discord server if you'd like support for the tool: smackstudio.com/discord
i want to use smack studio to create conventional (NON-platform) fighting game, can i do that?
I have only been messing with this for a day or two. One of the best animation/ characters creation systems I have ever seen!!! Great video :)
Thanks, so glad you're enjoying it!
This rendering technique is genius for a character creator game
Beautiful. The community can only grow, the possibilities are endless.
Great tutorial and an amazing system! Well done!
Thank you! I'm so glad you got a lot out of the tutorial. If you have any more questions you can hit us up in the Discord server.
I'm so blown away by this! This is truly revolutionary for working with Pixel Art! I started getting into game dev and have been grinding away at animations frame by frame, creating a ghost first then drawing over the ghost once I'm happy with the animation. This could save so much time and still have a similar impact in the feel of some animations. Is there plans to unmarry this tool from the game and be stand alone software? I'll definitely be buying this over the weekend and going ham on some creations! Incredible work Smack Studio! Y'all have reinvigorated my drive to over 9000!!
Thanks for checking us out! 🙂I hope it help on your game dev journey! We've gotten a lot of requests for a standalone app- we're considering that for a future release!
@@SmackStudioGame That's fantastic to hear. I hope your team is able to make that come to fruition. It will change the pixel art game development for the better I feel.
@@SmackStudioGame That will change the 2D Game development if this will have a standalone app 2d editor. I will definitely buy the standalone! Best 2D character editor to this date.
Hands down best animation program I have ever seen.
And if you want to play a Smash Style fighting game you can with the character you just made!?
This really is a hidden gem this better blow up when it releases
this software is amazing!!! thank you for this!!
This game/program is insane. I just got it for creating my own animations for games cause I was having trouble with the time frame for creating one animation... This technology is mind boggling with how fast it makes you create characters and to animate them. To then export into another game engine with the partitions. This is saving me hundreds of hours on long term animating in other programs like Aseprite alone. All I have to do is create the look of what I want in Aseprite then import the sprite or sprites cause you got to create all their individual body parts then put them all together in Smack Studio and bam. Full working character. Damn amazing! Thank you for creating this tutorial!
A standalone of this software is a must!
Thank you so much! We'd love to hear your feedback and experience in a steam review!
@@SmackStudioGame Thank you! Actually using the studio I have feedback already.
1. A choice to remove black outlines/edge lines added by the program in timeline. Not your drawn ones from original sprites. I wish you could have a button to remove them only and not yours from the finished added sprite. Plus the edges don't color in on your sprites on the edges especially if you are just doing a 2D type character for a game and all your outlines are already made and they are different colors.
a) I had a head with no black outlines connecting neck to the body but the black outlines are drawn on them. Even offsetting the sprite doesn't get rid of them.
b) I had clothes put on a character as an example and the outlines were all replaced by black. Like a dark yellow edge was replaced by all black. Obviously some of it due to it being 3D now. Even flattening the 3D part doesn't fix things sometimes and it can remove lines you made on the original sprite. But it does destroy sometimes your own made lines. Not all the time.
2. In the animation rig you should be able to adjust the offset in preview and could save that in the animation rig itself. Maybe even adjust the 3D placements of the sprite layers to. So you can just plop down in any place from the Animation rig your truly made character anywhere in the timelines.
3. When placing my character I saved in the timeline the sprites seem to have gone wonky and moved slightly when they were perfect in the animation rig in editor.
4. The layering system should be automatically done and offset from the position they are in the animation rig. Fixing many of the above problems.
5. I guess another would be to have a bigger tool palette like spray can and more tools when editing sprites.
6. Crashing is a problem. I have lost over 2 hours of work once already when editing in the animation rig. Clicked add sprite by clicking feature and it crashed over and over again even upon restarting and trying again. So I only use the drag feature to add my sprites.
Top couple things I have had problems with so far the most.
But best program I have ever used to create animations super fast. Loving the entire program!
5. I guess another would be to have a bigger tool palette like spray can and more tools when editing sprites.
I‘m planing on making a beat em up game and till now i was always thinking about how hard it would be to animate my charakters but with this awesome programm i can confidently start on it
I already know someone will make a character that makes a load noise every time they do anything
Oh gosh, don't give people any ideas...
This is amazing. Are there any new in-depth tutorials of a new character made entirely from scratch?
Also, with the export feature, would it be possible to use the created sprites (and maybe even export entire models from within Smack Studio) in games of an entirely different genre?
Like, say a 3D action adventure game similar to a Souls-like?
Same here
Yes, that will be my main use for this program is as a sprite exporter. So much faster than completely hand-drawn animations.
I created a char by drawing over an existing template. But this program really, REALLY needs help files and documentations so users can explore the advanced commands and techniques
We definitely agree! We've added a few tutorials on RUclips, but we'll be expanding the tutorials and in-game help as we continue to develop the game
I love this software so much
Why does the description say Download FREE on Steam? Is there like a free demo of the editor on there or was the game free beforehand?
Edit: Just saw the steam page is still labeled under the tags F2P and still mentions it as a F2P in descriptions even though it isn't anymore. Might want to update that.
Thanks, on it!
This tool is insane
Amazing!!! I have been dreaming of a tool like this. What options are there for exporting?
Sprite sheets! Join our Discord if you'd like
One of my fighers is a machoke. but this machoke is a bit bigger in size. He has a force field with big hitbox that deals 20 damage, 20 knockback and 0.2 knockback scale. And his A button attack combo is very quick consisting of 8 punches that deals 10 damage without knockback and finished with a kick that deals 20 damage, 20 knockback and 0.2 knockback scale in a 56 frame space.
Love the software absolutly amazing, but i was wondering how i import my own sprites to use for animation? whenever
i use the import function I can't see my sprite in the characterrig section
Hey, really glad you're liking the app! We can't post screenshots here, but if you join our discord we can help figure out where you're hitting an issue: smackstudio.com/discord
We plan to release more tutorials soon that could also help!
asking the same thing.
I know this was made a while ago but how do I make it so sprite changes are linked to different animations? Like if I wanted a character to have X eyes when hit, or in the case of the video, only have Granite wear those sick glasses when they do a forward strong attack?
If you want a body part to be swapped in one specific animation (like eyes or glasses), you can add a new View to that body part in the animation rig details and draw the new details on it. Views can be swapped in and out as you animation using the "Rig Layer Configuration" tab!
@@SmackStudioGame Awesome, thank you!
my question is answered on discord. the stats can be limitless. So it could be the overal limit of 2.147.483.647 in each stat otherwise it might go in the minus. I still need to buy this game
If I want could I export only a specific body part to the sprite sheet? Btw, really interesting tool you guys have developed!
Really appreciate it! You can disable body parts to hide them from view during an animation, so you'd be able to export specific layers by keeping the rest hidden. We don't have an official layer export tool yet!
@@SmackStudioGame Great job with the tooling so far! Are there any plans / dates to add export support? Right now the process of exporting part layers is super tedious (even the method you mentioned gets incredibly time consuming), especially if someone is working from the templates
Hey there! Loving how this works! Have one question though, when I go to export the animations, it doesn't seem to include multiple directions, so the walk animation are only to the right, however it shows a left animation in the test play so I'm confused on that.
yo can we get that sprite sheet for Cora at 15:42 or any other character, to use as a guideline for other programs like photoshop, gimp or what I use krita?
You bet! These aren't the final sprite sheets for our characters, but it should be a good reference for you: imgur.com/a/U3NTBz0
@@SmackStudioGame bro thanks. like wow I did not think you'll actually reply. what a bro move.
@@tysongaming2715 You're welcome, bro.
So is this tool only for Left-Right Moving Characters as it's a 2d brawler tool?
Or is it possible to also use that for 4 sided (front, left, right, back) rpg characters and their movements?
Even If I click 'apply bind pose' it's not like in the editor. Can I make a shortcut for how I want my character to begin somehow?
We just saw you in the Discord! (thanks for joining!) In case anyone else stumbles on this, we hope to add the ability to save and reuse poses in the future. For now, you can copy and paste your keyframes into other animations
@@SmackStudioGame Thanks, btw, I really love your game, when I was younger, I had a dream to make my own platform fighter, finding this game was amazing
Hello, I know this video is kinda old, but I would like to know, why arent my sprites working on attacks? I take the Kaien template and made him blonde, in all 4 different poses his head has, i do exactly what this says, however, the blonde sprite only shows up when I move/jump, not on idle or attacks... Any help??
I loved this program but i really need documentation, especiality for de depth offset
We definitely agree that some new tutorials will be helpful- we're working on it! 🙂
I made a character by drawing over the kaein character but when he does certain moves the old character show up . How can fix this . Certain kicks and punches he turn to the original character?
There are most likely sprite layers with the old drawings still on them. Make those layers invisible and the animation rig visible and your sprites should show up!
@@SmackStudioGame I’m a little slow but don’t know how to find the layers could you tell how to find them?
@@KennethBernardotoons The layers we mentioned are the timelines shown in the timeline pane at the top- each timeline has a name on the left. Find the timelines named "Sprites", click them to select them, and then click the trash icon to delete them. Hope that helps!
@@SmackStudioGame everything you said is true, now I can’t find the trash can?
Is it possible to create a character from scratch in the editor? Without a template. If so, do you have a tutorial? I'm lost!
How do I change the size of the box in which I can draw when drawing sprites?
You can rescale your character by clicking on Stats (in the top left corner), and then changing the Scale value.
We also will release an update in the near future allowing you to move the canvas around for any type of sprite (currently, you need to set it as an Effect Layer in the Sprite Layer Properties in order to move it around)
Hope that helps! 🙂
@@SmackStudioGame I see. Ok, thank you.
My brain keeps arguing with the need to give bones to the ear sprites - solely because ears don't have bones irl 😂
Help me please i cant get the stock icon to work please smack studio i beg of you
I'm loving this game so far, but I can't figure out something, what are "right axis value" and "up axis value"? I swear I've tried to figure them out but I've gotten nowhere.
Do you mean the variables in the character editor? Those are numeric values that tell you what direction the player is pressing on the control stick or movement keys, ranging from -1 to 1 (for right axis, a value of -1 means the player is pressing left. For up axis, a value of -1 means the player is pressing down.)
@@SmackStudioGame I took a screenshot of the thing I'm talking about. It seems inconsistent, but that might be because I tested it with a key board
drive.google.com/file/d/1ldcJg-tTkSUGmALIhHgQrWDlYr_PXRjm/view?usp=drive_link
so can the characters we make only be used in Smack Studio? or can they be imported into original games of our own creation?
You can export them to use however you'd like
@@SmackStudioGame :D cool!!!
Im trying to create a completely custom character and ive finished the design but for some reason the characters invisible, im not sure what im doing wrong, if anyone knows can you please help me?
Can you dm us on twitter or join our discord and we can get it solved for you! smackstudio.com/discord & twitter.com/SmackStudio
I guess there is no way to export the 3D Meshes somehow?
Would love to use the outcoming 3D Models in my godot projects.
Since no real 3d mesh is ever created, exporting a 3D rig isnt possible, but you can export any sprite sheets you create in editor!
16:24 when you import the sprite you drawn, you can't resize it?
We don't have an option to resize the sprite at the time of importing currently- but it's on our list to add (we've gotten some requests for this!)
I wish to know how to make victory/entrance animations
I wanted to set up a multi hit attack from scratch, how would i do that?
Sorry for late reply- we don't check the comments here often! You can use the action "Clear Player Hit Flag" between your hitboxes to allow each hit to connect with the other players.
If you need any more help, you can join the Discord! smackstudio.com/discord
10:24 what are you doing to move the camera angle like that?
Sorry for late reply- we don't check the comments here often! Click "3D" in the camera view pane in the bottom left corner, then hold down right click to look around.
If you need any more help, you can join the Discord! smackstudio.com/discord
How to get this toool???
Smack Studio is in early access on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1739300/Smack_Studio/
Do you have a demo ?
Can you use pixel art that is larger the 64x64?
I have something I need to animate that’s 180x480…
The max canvas size is 256x256 currently!
@@SmackStudioGame thanks
i am romantically attracted to this game