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Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked

20 points by parisidau

by rbanffy

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Wouldn’t it make sense to calculate the character box when bundling the assets rather than at runtime?

by jay_kyburz

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This is not normal. Artists can and do work in a fixed size sprite sheet for so many reasons.

by charcircuit

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The origin / root node should be authored as part of the asset. Just putting it in the center of a bounding box doesn't work well in every scenario.

by halflife

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Reading the blog I thought I was probably missing something. Reading the comments I learn that I missed nothing. Weird blog post.

by LoganDark

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by nnevatie

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by pwdisswordfishq

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by raincole

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I honestly don't get why someone would write a blog post for such a simple problem. It's fizzbuzz level. I thought the author might be an artist who knows very little about programming and is just learning, but according the about page they have PhD and has published 20 programming books...?

by PunchyHamster

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The whole thing should’ve been an email
"Hey, artist, could you add a layer with straight line in you file and fit animation so character actually walks on it?"
...but I imagine the artist was also AI here...