Shadows below characters

[AceRanger]

Imagine a character is floating or flying about, how do I add a shadow below it?

And what happens if I want to make an animated shadow, as if the character was possessed. How do I add an animated shadow?

Thanks for reading!

 

[Shaz]

I think you would need to actually modify the sprite and add the shadow to it.  Take a look at Nature.png, at the fairies in the lower left.

This might mean, if it's in a group of 8 sprites, that you need to crop it out into its own, make the canvas taller and move the rows down accordingly.

 

[AceRanger]

Right, kinda what I was thinking... I was on the right track. Thanks!  

However, that wouldn't be the solution if I wanted the shadow to move below the player and attack it, right?

 

[Shaz]

How are you making it "attack"?

If you want it to move independently, you're probably better off creating a new character sprite just for the shadow, then putting it into its own event, which means you'd then have to figure out how to move it so it looks like the player's shadow.

 

[AceRanger]

But if I do a new character sprite for the shadow can I place it in a "layer" below the main characters and NPCs?