Selecting/moving certain parts for sprites

Is there anyway to remove a certain part of an object and move it around. For instance, if I got a sprite sheet from the internet, could I select a square around a certain sprite and move it around?

Thanks!
Jeff

not in KM, use MSpaint or photoshop, Althought I wish we could.

You can use a mask to accomplish that.

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Originally Posted by w.brants

You can use a mask to accomplish that.

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How do I do that? I know you can use masks to only show a portion of a movie, but how can i cut something out and move it around at will?

For instance, if I drew a face as one drawing and I wanted to tilt the top part of his head and make his brains come out, but not the bottom part, how would I select only the top part and move it around if it is attached to the rest of the face?

Simply, KoolMoves can not edit sprite sheets...
Same thing with all other Vector based programs.

Vector is "fip" data based and roster is "pixle" based.
[Roster is bmp. jpg. gif. and most sprite sheets...]

Some tricks can be done after importing the sprites into KoolMoves.
You can change the shape holding the "rastor" fill by adding points and curves.

http://albinoblacksheep.com recently had a tutorial on sprites.
[But it does not include KoolMoves.]

I didn't know exactly what you ment by sprite sheets. Now I'm understanding it a bit better my advice would be to wait a few weeks until flash player 8 becomes available.

Using flash 8 scripting you could create a bitmap image from the sprite sheet.
Next step is to create a bitmap image the size of the sprite and assign it to a movieclip. Now you can copy a rectangle directly from the sprite sheet bitmap into the sprite bitmap. You would only have to change the source rectangle and copy again each frame to animate the sprite.

Attached you'll find a flash 8 example to show you how you could use a sprite sheet (The sprite sheet isn't my design).

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Attached you'll find a flash 8 example to show you how you could use a sprite sheet (The sprite sheet isn't my design).

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I installed Flash 8 and all I see when I open the .swf in IE is a box with a greenish gradient.

Did you extract all files into a folder and open the html file ?
The sprite sheet is a separate transparent gif file. If try to run the swf file without the gif file extracted in the same folder it won't run.

I figured it out