Spriting Help?

[Kubius]

I'm having trouble using alternative sprites for custom weapons - I can manage to get custom projectiles working but not custom weapons. Does anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong or how I could do it right?

[alextfish]

You should probably say precisely what you're doing. What custom images have you created, precisely? Where are you putting them (somewhere under resources.dat/img, presumably)? What filenames are you giving them, and where are you referencing those filenames from your blueprint definitions? And when it's "not working", what behaviour do you see?

[Kubius]

My procedure has been this:
duplicate standard weapon sprite and modify
rename weapon sprites using standard syntax (e.g. missiles_1z_strip3.png)
place in folder /img/weapons inside .ftl zip file
copy entry from animations.xml and paste into an append file
modify to fit sprite names (e.g. missiles_1z if I'm using missiles_1z_strip3 and missiles_1z_glow)

Hopefully this should help anyone who wants to give me info.