stuf

games/forespend/res/npcs/canidmonster.tdf

@@ -1,7 +1,80 @@
+# kin, if ur seeing this, please me of future.. complete the colors ;w;
 
+# please look in the reference for the image result while reading this on res/npcs/canidmonstertutorial.png
+# and canidmonster/*.png to see how it works on the spritesheet
+
+# how to use this file
+# here is the entity name:
 " type canidmonster
-{ proccol
-i r 255
-i g 0
-i b 255
+# color ranges have the colors per color mask, from min to max during
+# noise generation
+{ sprite
+# emote definition (yes, defines can have space :3c)
+stare around
+look down
+breathe
+# folder where the sprites will be
+" folder canidmonster
+# fb: front back    | lr: left right    | ud: up down
+i fb-framew 32
+i fb-frameh 128
+# note: i recommend 2x width on the side view in case of the running animation being wide
+# well this is mostly for vertically standing beings, for horizontal then do whatever
+i lr-framew 64
+i lr-frameh 128
+i ud-framew 64
+i ud-frameh 32
+# frame count, not defined animations wont be loaded
+i idle 4
+i walk 8
+i run 8
+i swim 8
+
+
+}
+
+{ colorranges
+# define range names
+1
+2
+3
+shiny
+# if generate a shiny one, all colors must be the same
+{ forcedequals
+shiny
+}
+# the class name will be the color used as mask, if you use a color range, then the color generated
+# will be a tint over the existing texture instead of full replacement. it will overlay one another
+# ex color range:
+#{ aaaaaa-ffffff
+
+# in this example, the color ffffff is the belly
+{ ffffff
+# here we set which noise, this is an optional setting since it wont do noise if you dont set
+# it will just use the first color for the range
+" noise random
+# here you set if you want it to repeat, if yes then it will use the 4d torus technique to seamlessly repeat
+# 20 here is horizontal, 10 is vertical 
+#" param repeat 20 10
+i frequency 1
+i amplitude 1
+i octave 1
+# now we finally define the ranges, the name is the range between 1.0 and 0.0
+# this have a 2d range format.
+# x_y.y
+# x is the name of the range, since you could have multiple color ranges
+
+# this range for example is good for gray fur with brown spots
+h 1_0.35 777777
+h 1_0.3 bbbbbb
+h 1_0.29 6b4422
+
+h ezra_0.0 ffffff
+# also you can make ranges glow! (not be affected by ambient light)
+{ glow
+3
+}
+
+}
+# end of range ffffff
 }