I just made my own arduboy yesterday and i would like to know how to make your own sprites. i have tried using a pixel art editor but when i convert it into hexadecimal character code it is so big that it takes up all the arduboy’s storage. Please can someone tell me a good sprite making application that i can use.
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Congrats on making your own Arduboy. You can try converting your sprite image(s) (png) image using TEAMarg’s Sprite ocnverter
For drawing sprites you could try Pixelformer
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What size was the image? A fullscreen image should take up 1kb, not all of the storage.
If you want to try different formats for your sprites, this might help: https://felipemanga.github.io/ImageConverter/
For editing sprites, I recommend Aseprite. GraphicsGale is another popular option.
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What converter were you using?
It sounds like you were using a converter that converts to 3-bytes per pixel RGB rather than something that converts to the Arduboy format.
If you’re looking for converters, we have an entire thread dedicated to them:
Personally I draw my sprites in microsoft paint and then convert them using a converter I wrote myself (which I intend to clean-up and release… eventually).
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