[Scripting Question] How to make the game load an animation sheet as sprite for a Pokémon?

[Faburisu]

So in my game all Pokémon sprites are .gif images, and the game loads them just fine as animated sprites.

I want to create animated sprites for my own recolored Pokémon as well, but the problem is, most animated sprites have approximate 50 frames, so recoloring 50+ images for just one in-game animated Sprite takes a very long time.

How can I make the game load animation sheets (A row of many sprites in one image, like the walking animation for NPC's.) as .png files instead of .gifs, but so that the game still loads them as an animation?

I'm always open for questions.

Thanks in advice!

 

[Typhloquil]

I'm unsure if this will solve your specific problem, but the program I use for animations, asesprite, can recolor every single frame of a loaded animation, just by editing the color pallet. The newest version has to be paid for, but you can get an older version for free on their website.

 

[mej71]

Elite Battle System uses spritesheets like this. There's only a couple of the sections you need (the sprite related ones), but you might also have to do some custom coding to implement this into various other scripts