Resizing sprites

[Hyunchris]

Hey i was wondering how you guys resize sprites? Since I am so new to this, I would like to get your input because yall might have a much better way.

Currently, I am using GIMP. I draw my Sprite there really large,  then I take my large sprite, scale it down to the size I need with no interpolation. This gets it to the size I need, but some of the lines are not smooth, so I import the resized sprite into aesprite and use the pixel perfect option to redraw the outlines. I am just getting the hang of aesprite right now, but this is what I am attempting.

Any better suggestions will be appreciated.  Thanks

 

[ABK]

i used paint from winxp, made indexed spritesheet, changed bg to almost black and copied to clipboard.
made new image in xp paint, pasted clupboard, then changed size, results were best from everything i tried, sprites after resizing came out crisp, then i replaced bg to pink or whatever, and saved it as nonindexed, then opened original indexed spritesheet and pasted resized sprites into it so colours would match.
thats it.

 

[O Ilusionista]

RotSprite has better result than other graphic tools, but its a command line tool.

If you use Aseprite, you can have RotSprite inside it as a interpolation method.
Its a paid software to save files, so you have 3 options to play fair:
- copy the image and save on other software
- the tool is paid, but if you compile it yourself (the code is available), you can use it for free
- buy it

https://www.aseprite.org/

 

[Hyunchris]

RotSprite has better result than other graphic tools, but its a command line tool.

If you use Aseprite, you can have RotSprite inside it as a interpolation method.

Thanks, I've been using the Aseprite demo and scaled using their default interpolation, but wasnt aware of rotsprite. So I tried it, Your right, it came out looking much better than my old method and saved time also. There seems to be alot of other tools that will be helpful in this program, I think im going to go ahead and just buy it. That was very helpful thanks

 

[Hyunchris]

i used paint from winxp, made indexed spritesheet, changed bg to almost black and copied to clipboard.
made new image in xp paint, pasted clupboard, then changed size, ...

thanks bWWd, your sprite's in your games look awesome! I am also going to try this method.