How to Animate in Game Maker

From a Strip of Pictures

• In Fireworks - make sure your strip is transparent
• In gamemaker - create a sprite
• press the Edit Sprite Button
• Click on the File Menu of the Sprite Edior
  • Click on Create from Strip



Now arrange the strip so that the boxes around each image fit perfectly. Play with the numbers and see if you can get each image to fit within the box. If you can't make the boxes fit the images you will have create this part of the animation manually. This will require having to cut out each picture in fireworks and individually load the png files into the Sprite Editor. Remember the more pictures the slower the animation. You can copy and paste pictures from within the gamemaker sprite editor.

 

Your window should look like this but with the figure moving.

 

Have fun!