Technically reasonable limblessnes

[Bloodgrey]

On Raywiki the article saying that in R1 there's no known reasons for making Rayman limbless aside technical reason, I may heared about that, but what is this technical reason?

I may could use this as a reason to include Rayman as a Secret Character in a fangame.

[Cairnie]

It's because when the graphics team tried removing the limbs of every character, they saved 20 times more graphic space than they would have if they kept the limbs, so they stuck with that. Plus they might have thought it was easier to animate and store the different body parts.

[spiraldoor]

Doesn't this belong in the RayWiki forum?

[Bloodgrey]

Well I heared about that previously I just mentioned another source that I heared that from, actually Raywiki just remindend me, but it's more like details of Rayman so I asked it at the Rayman topic.

[Cairnie]

Doesn't this belong in the RayWiki forum?

It's talking more about why the Rayman 1 characters are limbless in the first place, so no.

And well, I got that little info from a number of magazines that reviewed Rayman Advance way back in 2001.

[Phoenixan]

I remember reading from interviews and magazines before that it was originally done just because it was easier to animate that way, and the technical reasons were merely a sort of.. side-effect. Though I do notice that in the game files (from Droolie's rips) that the sprite pieces are generally separated. And sprites do seem to be recycled across characters.

[Cairnie]

Yeah I noticed that too. Some other 2D games might have arms stored separately and so on.

[stan423321]

Yep, that's the explanation. Note that some games combine "sprite elements" and vector-like lines to make full character. So - they removed lines and found it cool...

[spiraldoor]

And sprites do seem to be recycled across characters.

Am I the only one who's noticed the trumpets' shoes in Band Land?

[Cairnie]

I noticed that a long time ago.

[spiraldoor]

Oh.

*is disappointed*

[stan423321]

Dark Rayman?

Note he's probably using same script as normal Ray, only with different sprites. Reusability, dudes!

[Joshua822]

No, Dark Rayman uses a pat of Rayman's script but for example he is programmed to kill Rayman if he touches Rayman, and if you don't press any key Rayman will stop moving, Dark Rayman will still keep walking until he reaches Rayman.

[stan423321]

[facepalm]facepalm[/facepalm]

I don't say they use the same object code! I mean, any Rayman's "sprite" can be rearanged to Dark Rayman's "sprite" by simply swapping their "sub-sprites" without changing locations of these! This actually WAS scripted somehow, however it is completely another piece of script than the object code of both! Sprite script is interpreted by code (or included in it, or being a sub-function), but it hasn't got anything to behaviour!