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Posted: **10 Feb 2009, 13:23**

Despite working on a few other things, I've also been working on a squirrel sprite I was playing around with on the Log Monster Redo thread.

: Brown Squirrel test; squirrel-scury-test.gif (13.46 KiB) Viewed 2888 times

: There's no attack or up down scurry movements yet, that's what's left to do.; squirrel-test-noattack.png (14.76 KiB) Viewed 2887 times

I have to add in a basic attack animation (yes another biting monster, and similar to the fluffy in movement, but ambient for the more wooded areas

).

After adding in the incomplete sprite sheet example, I just realized I need to address the shadow another way if I'm going to make this dyeable

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Posted: **10 Feb 2009, 14:59**

there are 2 options:

Use a different dye channel for the sprite, like using the green channel instead of the grey
Use a colour like RGB(0,0,1) for the shadow

Posted: **10 Feb 2009, 15:47**

Don't we only use shadows for flying things?

Posted: **10 Feb 2009, 16:43**

It's jumping, isn't that almost the same as flying?

Posted: **10 Feb 2009, 16:55**

Jumping is a border case

Posted: **10 Feb 2009, 17:27**

Snakes have a shadow too.

Posted: **10 Feb 2009, 17:34**

We need to make a decision about shadow and fix existing sprites. But for now, use something just off gray for this shadow.

Posted: **11 Feb 2009, 13:00**

Complete!
Here's the sprite sheet:

The XML

and if you want to test it out with a dye machup, try this one:

[GIT] Squirrel