2012-06-04, 12:33 AM
It does take a while to do the sprites manually, but when that's your job, you just have the time to do it. (it's only like 100 per weapon anyway, and recolours are pretty near free - nearly all the 'special' skill animations are just ripping frames from the regular 1h or 2h animations anyway, they don't add new animation frames cause then they'd have to update every equip the character could wear)
There is a fair amount that can be copy pasted but ultimately I would guess they're hand-tweaking the results on every frame that's rotated differently. Like looking at my PSB, there's horizontal (used standing), 45 degrees, and around halfway between those. They only need to be finished for one quadrant (0 to 89) because after that it can do a perfect 90 degree rotation, so the actual frames would be 0, 20, 45, 70, and that's it.
There is a fair amount that can be copy pasted but ultimately I would guess they're hand-tweaking the results on every frame that's rotated differently. Like looking at my PSB, there's horizontal (used standing), 45 degrees, and around halfway between those. They only need to be finished for one quadrant (0 to 89) because after that it can do a perfect 90 degree rotation, so the actual frames would be 0, 20, 45, 70, and that's it.