bell — BELL ODUYA's sprite sheet

The furnace stoker's art. One drawPose renders every frame in the sheet from a table of joints, and each of the 42 clips in Rules.CLIPS is a handful of key poses tweened through emberline.pixelkit.

Bell is mass. That single idea drives the whole sheet: the widest silhouette in the game and the shortest of the four, hips that carry a heavy vertical bob through the walk, a wind-up longer than the strike on every attack, and a squash on every landing. throwHit — the command grab — is the centrepiece: he stretches to 1.14 lifting, holds at the top, then slams to 0.78 with debris coming off the floor.

He carries a furnace door on his chest with three vents that never go out, and one shoulder that has been burning for years. super (BLASTFURNACE) opens the door.

Using it

local Bus = require("emberline.bus")
local art = Bus.registry.art["bell"]

local canvas = Pixel.create({
    width = art.cell.width, height = art.cell.height,
    pixelSize = art.cell.pixelSize, pivot = art.cell.pivot,
    plane = "xy", palette = art.palette,
})
local clips = art.build(canvas)     -- { idle = { from, to, fps, loop }, ... }
canvas:setActiveFrame(clips.idle.from)

art.build(handle, order?) draws the sheet and returns the clip index; pass order (a list of clip names) to draw a subset while iterating on one animation. art.portrait(handle) draws the cut-in bust into a art.portraitCell-sized canvas. art.missingClips() returns any name in Rules.CLIPS the sheet does not provide — it is empty.

Playback runs on setActiveFrame: the component has no notion of a clip range, so a runtime driving this sheet steps frames between from and to itself at the clip's fps. The first display of each frame builds that frame's mesh (about 14 ms); cycling the sheet once after building warms all of them so no frame costs anything mid-round.