I have a characterbody2d and I want to display the equipment being worn. So this equipment would need to be swapped around during game play.

I currently am using several sprites layered. How is best to handle this situation?

  • Raptor :gamedev:@mastodon.gamedev.place
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    16 days ago

    @Fizz similar but for games/engines that don’t use uniform tile maps you basically just have a metadata set alongside the image that indexes where each sub-image is located in it.

    It doesn’t really change the end product, and as I said most engines already work like this for most 2d stuff, and many editors will pack for you if you tell them. You’re just indexing portions of a texture, but it uses an order of magnitude less memory/storage and loads faster even off slow storage or web streaming.