Samurai Game Jam Devlog - One Last Swing #2 - Drawing Samurai

palette_swap_samurai_draw.p8

-- draw a samurai on the screen at _x and _y positions
-- _color holds a two element array for the palette swap
-- _head holds the head sprite of the samurai
-- _flip indicates two horizontally flip the whole thing 
-- for opponent drawing
function draw_samurai(_x, _y, _color, _stance, _head, _flip)

	-- offset for heads, because the base sprite is not symetrical.
	local headOffset = {3,1}
	if _flip then headOffset = {5,1} end
	
	-- default swap colors
	local resetDark, resetLight = 5,6
	-- mod the new _colors
	for x=0,15,1 do
		for y=0,15,1 do
			-- jump to the sprite's spritesheet space. We go from 0-15 because
			-- we are using 16x16 sprites, and the *8 down because sprite id 1
			-- starts at x=8 position in the spritesheet.
			-- Grab the color from the spritesheet and then replace them for the new ones
			if sget( _stance*8 + x, y) == resetDark then
				sset( _stance*8 + x, y, _color[1])
			end
			if sget( _stance*8 + x, y) == resetLight then
				sset( _stance*8 + x, y, _color[2])
			end
		end
	end

	-- draw the clothes!
	spr(_stance, _x, _y, 2, 2, _flip,false)

	-- reset the colors
	for x=0,15,1 do
		for y=0,15,1 do
			if sget( _stance*8 + x, y) == _color[1] then
				sset( _stance*8 + x, y, resetDark)
			end
			if sget( _stance*8 + x, y) == _color[2] then
				sset( _stance*8 + x, y, resetLight)
			end
		end
	end
	-- draw the head sprite from the collection, they start at 128.
	spr(128+_head, _x+headOffset[1], _y+headOffset[2], 1 , 1, _flip, false)
	-- draw the hand and sword.
	-- we need all this so we can layer for ex: beards upon top of the clothes
	-- but the swords still need to be on top of the newly drawn heads.
	spr(_stance+32, _x, _y, 2, 2, _flip,false)
end

Made for: https://ko-fi.com/Post/Samurai-Game-Jam-1--Stances-Drawing-and-Combat-J3J3TOCOH