which one more effective? drawing char include shadow or drawing separately?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By potatobanana

which one more effective? drawing char include shadow or drawing separately?
i meant should i drawing shadow under char or make two sprite one only shadow, the other one only char then use godot to combine.

sorry for my broken eng.

Hi, what kind of game are you making? In my opinion it depends of the game… Does the character jumps? is a top down? Platformer?

p7f | 2019-01-17 12:24

hi,top down game, char cant jump but have skill that look like jump and moster mostly jump

potatobanana | 2019-01-17 13:05

As it’s a top down game, i assume you are going to draw frame by frame for the animation. If that is the case, i think there would be no difference either way. In platformers is necesary to do it separately, cause shadow should stay always on the floor, no matter how high you are. However, i think is better if you do shadow separately cause you could use same shadow for many characters. Just My opinion.

p7f | 2019-01-17 13:19

thank you for your opinion, really help me to decide which one to chose.

potatobanana | 2019-01-17 13:33