Modding:Sprites (0.9.9.7)

A sprite in DoomRL is comprised of three distinct components: a color spritesheet, a grayscale version for coloring, and a black and white version for outlining sans shadow. Very few sprites make use of all three.

As of this version it is not possible for modders to directly edit sprites so there is no need to go into further detail. What is needed is a list of sprites that modders can use:

Player Sprites

Player sprites have colorable armor and change based on wielded weapon. They are good sprites to use for player-like beings provided you manually handle the corpse.

Item Sprites

Armor, non-steel boots, mod packs, skulls, and phase devices are colorable. Choice is otherwise limited.

Being Sprites

NoCorpse sprites can be accessed by adding 16 to the parent being, except in the case of oversized sprites--those just add 2. Lost Souls, pain elementals, and agony elementals do not have corpse sprites. Both the cyberdemon and mastermind are oversized sprites.

Cell Sprites

Many cells have multiple sprite variants that, if you want to access separately will take some trial and error. Fluids are in a 2x2 square, walls are in a 3x15 vertical rectangle, floors are a 16x1 line, and most other multi-sprite cells are adjacent. Stairs, cave walls, brick walls, and the colored boxes are colorable.

Missile Sprites

There are only a few missile sprites. Color shots and acid shots are colorable.

Miscellaneous Sprites

These last few sprites are special purpose graphics that may still be of use. The arrow, select, and mark sprites are colorable.