GameMaker Studio 2 - How To Import & Animate Sprites Beginner Tutorial 

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I was just getting a start on gamemaker studio for fun, but man... you cover lots of subjects regarding game coding and you just mention what are very essential. Your videos are very explanatory and easily understandable. Really nice work you're putting on this channel. I really like the videos and hope the best for you, Good luck ^^

You just saved me. I know this video was posted six years ago, but I just spent over an hour trying to figure this out and your video finally helped. Thank you so much.

It is people like you that, not only make learning fun, but also "Make Learning"!!!! Thanks also for the generousity of the sprites and full project. Like others, I learn best when I pull a project to pieces and put it back together after knowing what each piece does.

Thank you ! I was struggling to import animated sprites ! I had to use photoshop to edit them and stuff, now i know exactly how to do it simply ! UR THE BEST YO

Dude you are Awesome!! For some reason i was having trouble in my code, so i change "walk_Speed" for "WalkSpeed" in the event, and works for me. Keep it up!

This video saved my butt for a game designing class! Thank you so much!

Finally a tutorial where after lauching game the movement worked

That was super helpful , Thank you so much for making this video! I was struggling so much with this , now this whole thing is just soo much easier

thanks a lot man! I made sure to make notes of these certain actions that you can type within GML and exactly what they mean. The only problem is I couldn't find a symmetric sprite sheet for Samus but still made the best of it, thank you again!

Amazing video, straight forward and useful. really helped me out through my Uni project.

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It help me very much for a game I write for my daughter. Adding the sprite sheet and the project is more than appreciate since it's easier to debug with a working template!

This is EXACTLY what i needed, thx a lot, just subbed

Hey dude, just found your channel and wanted to tell you that you are the best teacher on this damn website.

Really insightfull tutorial for me as a newcomer to GameMaker community

thanks! this is just what i was looking for!

Definitely got another subscriber today! Amazing videos good sir! Have a grand day!

Brilliant! Clear and concise!

Simple, and very helpful; Thanks a lot! ^^

ive bin looking for this tutorial for so long THANK YOU!!!!!!!

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so much thanks dude. Cool video and good explanation

This is the best video i've watched. Thanks

*Thanks **dude.My** computer not working and i watched this tutorial on another computer.But next week i'm call the pc fixer for fix my computer*

I just looked Shaun Spaldings complete Game programming, but he only works with image_index = 0, 1, 2 etc. And not with sprites, so you saved me :)

Thank you so much dude! This helped a lot!

You helped me a lot with that. Thanks

Thank you very much for this amazing tutorial :)

Amazing honestly , thank you✨💯

Thanks, this really helped me.

thanks really helped me out on this one !!!!!

this helped me so much thx :)

Teacher for Life bro. Thanks!

i got it to work thanks (i just modified it just because i wanted "D" and "A" , i will need to think how to make a jump but i think i got this) thanks

One of the best videos!

O God this dude is really helpful love you

Perfect, thank you !!

good job guy! thanks!

Thank you so so much!

Great video!

I *cant wait to start making more serious games*

Where you were in my tutorials!? New suscriber to you!

How do I animate different directional movement in a "left click to move" scenario? I can't set "W,A,S,D" keys to each animation because im using a single left click to determine direction

thanks alot remember you can use for the running If keyboard_check_pressed(vk_shift) i think

I have a question. So, I did everything on the video except for running then I ran a test run but my sprite flew offscreen. Can you tell me what I am missing or what I did wrong?

genial, por fin un video bien explicado, thank you so much

On the create part it says variable walk speed only referenced once????? Help please

Awesome, thanks :)

what do you do if spreadsheet animated sprites arent the same size (so you can just make all boxes the same size you have to make each a different size)

I'm with a problem , my sprite turns into a square when i run the game , in the program he's normal but when i run the game he turns into a square . What do i do ?

OH MY GOD BROH, thank you

when i import the character i still can't get rid of that white background around the character animation, and when i import the character in game, it shows it with that white background....

Great job! Thx

um I want to know how to make a smash bros type of moveset because this game for steam called rivals of aether is a platform fighter like smash so I would like to know how to do that specifically pls

Hey, thanks for the video, it was really helpful, I'm just curious if there is a way to remove the standing still frame from the animation, because the way I drew my character, her standing still frame makes the animation of her walking a bit awkward.

*Thanks* *a* *lot!* *I* *can* *finally* *animate* *phew*

very very helpsul now i request u to make video on jumping and fighting ( attualy how do i get the frame of fihting and jumping i dont have them i only have walking and running and right and left plzzz i request and u are a good teacher also

How do I make the idle sprite animated? I have the front idle animation working, but whenever I stop it reverts to that.

thank you so much!!

Y E S thank you this helped me so much.

your the best thanks for the help

Question from the future, is there any way i can just create a key down event and then use a begin step for the animation?

Ok, but how to check collisions with pathfinding systems?

if i hold shift and only shift my character stops moving (duh) but keeps his running animation because of the vk_nokey, is there a quick and easy way to solve this?

Hello. I'm using my own custom sprites as I go along with this tutorial. How do I set a frame to be the "standing still" frame? (there's 2 frames, 1 for looking down, the other for looking up) Please and thank you.

Nice tutorial video. Need some guidance. I downloaded the file as png, however, when I imported as strip image, the background stays as white. Is there anything that I missed? Thanks.

I have some questions, I hope you could help me. Why my background is white? I'm not sure if that is bad, but how could I make it transparent? And, is better make a sprite on a transparent background in a first place?

Hey, good video, thanks! I did try downloading your sprite sheet at first though, and when imported, it left a white background, instead of a transparent one (which is also how it appears on the hosting website). I don't know if that problem was with you, the hosting website, or with how I downloaded it? I ended up finding another image (which I still had to import into GIMP to make IT load without a background) and used it to practice with. I was wondering if there's a better way though. I tried the color removal tool, but it was going pixel by pixel. Anyway, good video though, and thanks for making it! I look forward to perusing your other tutorials.

why does my sara have a white background? not like urs transparant how do i fix this

PLEASE HELP because when I Go to object create it gives me

i have a question, theres a game which uses files with the .gmspr extension and i was wondering how to export my sprite animation into that extension

thanks :D

Hello, my Sprite teleports a lil when I go up or down, know of any reasons why?

Thanks for the help, but I have a question. How do you mirror sprites?

Hello, I am having trouble with the left and right walk animations. When I press right, Sara moves but the animation is stuck on the frame of her stepping (She still moves). I have the same problem with the left walk animation. Another problem is that I have a white backround on (not the whole screen)my sprite.

Hello! What do you usually use to make your sprites? I'm trying to find a good template and program to use for my game, and I usually do my own art for it. Any recommendations?

How can I make it that when I press two buttons (like D first and then W, or W and S at the same time), the character sprite either uses an another one (when I press D first and then W, my sprite turns to the top, but I want it to turn right) or the animation stops? (pressing W and S, or D and A makes it run in one place)

I have problem how to make colision at the same time could you add colisions to this project?

I dont have an image tab

I just made my first sprite now I got the idle done I have to make him run and jump so this helps

One thing: when I press and hold shift and I'm not even moving, the character is still animated. What I want is to fix that so when players press and hold the shift key and they're not moving, it won't animate. Any advice?

This video is a life saver! I have a character who has an idle animation for four different directions. This is the code I currently have (I tweaked it a little from your example): if (keyboard_check(vk_nokey)) { sprite_index = spr_champion_front_idle; } How would I set it for every direction?

The sheet appears with a white background wich does not let me see the selection square, can you please tell me how to erase the background so it looks like your sheet?

Can you import a sprite strip as a layer into another sprite? Say I go into the image editor, create new layer, and I want to import an already finished strip that I have saved as a PNG that will be drawn over top of the default layer.

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this, but (in Gamemaker Studio 1 at least) using this code if you press the shift key while walking and then let go of it, but NOT of the WASD then your character will keep running. I simply did this to fix this: if (keyboard_check(vk_shift)) { walkSpeed = 7; }; else { walkSpeed = 3.5; }; Also, you get my thumbs up for this exceptional tutorial. I wanted to get into this program, but any tutorials I could find were plain bad. I hope I'm not gonna run into problems using GM1, but I will follow these tutorials anyway :) @EDIT: Actually using this method there is another problem. If you press the shift key while walking and let go of the WASD keys, but NOT of Shift, your character will keep its walking animation even though it's walking. The code is also easily fixed, what you do is replace this line: if (keyboard_check(vk_nokey)) { with this: if (!keyboard_check(ord("W")) && !keyboard_check(ord("S")) && !keyboard_check(ord("A")) && !keyboard_check(ord("D"))) {

Hey! This vid is great. But when I go to play my character walks right no matter what key I press. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hey, first of all gr8 tutorial!! But I have an issue! When I start the game with my character in (im not using Sara!) When I press the letter "A" the character like teleports up in the screen, super weird and I cant fix it, maybe you know the problem and can help me?

I have a question, if I have multiple sprites and I want them to all be in one animation, how would I do that? When I import a new frame it replaces the original sprite instead of adding a frame.

Hello, Do you know what can be the Problem when i put a Sprite into my Room and when i start the game the sprite isnt in the room.

Thanks for tutorial. For 8 direction movement, not only 4 like in videos, just add example: if keyboard_check(ord ("W")) && keyboard_check(ord("D")) { sprite_index = moveDiagonalRight; (or how you name a sprite for top right movement) } right? Or there is a simple way?

I have a gif but it doesn’t display all of the frames. What do I do?

I got stuck on walls, rock, and tree. I kept increasing the collision speed value and trying again. It only works for me for me with a collision speed value of 6 or higher.

Hey, I have a run button for my character, when you hold down shift and press any key they run, when you let go of shift she returns to default speed and image speed, however if I am holding shift and any arrow key, then let go of the key and continue holding shift she endlessly cycles through the walk cycle until I let go of shift, do you know how to fix this?

i cant get my sprite to show when i run it.Any help?

is there other software for creating sprite sheets, and whats the normal size for pixel art and vector graphics in games.

My sprite scrolls through the animations even when it’s not moving?

Great video! I have a question, if W+D, the speed of the diagonal, how to solve?

Huge thanks m8. One question can I somehow make sprint on V with ord its pretty buggy and I dont want shift to be running.

Help! I am using Mac and the trial version of GameMaker studio 2. There is no option for "import sprite sheet" it's just "import" and no option to "convert to frames" either. Maybe this is because I am using the trial version?

Hey, what video would you recommend for learning how to make dialogue boxes? I want to add some text to my game.