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+====== GIF to sprites ======
+By Mace
+This is a Kick Assembler script that turns a GIF into separate sprites. The order is represented by strings that contain letters, enabling you to make a sprite font with only the letters that you use, but distributed into memory where the sprite pointers have screen code offset.
+To clearify: if you have the A as your first letter in the top left of your GIF, it will be transfered to spriteMemory + 1*64 (where 1 is the screencode of the letter A). So if spriteMemory is $4000, the 64x21 top left pixels will be transfered to $4040.
+The GIF could look something like the one below. The script assumes black letters on a white background. Compare the content of the GIF with the strings in lines 13 and 14 of the script and you'll see the resemblance.
+{{:base:halloweed_sprite_set_single_color.gif?400|}}
+<code [enable_line_numbers="true"]>
+.label spriteMemory = $4000
+* = spriteMemory // spriteMemory is where you want your sprites
+// Load the GIF with the sprite font, each letter in a 64x21 grid
+.var spriteFont = LoadPicture("spritefont.gif",List().add($ffffff,$000000))
+// Create a List() that contains the letters in your font
+//  in the order as they appear in the GIF
+.var fontMap = List()
+// Add strings that contains all the letters for each line in the GIF
+.eval fontMap.add("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")	// content of 1st line
+.eval fontMap.add(@"0123456789\$27-+?!,.")	// content of 2nd line
+                                                // (@ indicates escape code)
+// Parse the strings (var l = lines) in the fontMap List()
+.for (var l=0; l<fontMap.size(); l++){		// loop through lines
+// Parse each string (var p = position)
+.for (var p=0; p<fontMap.get(l).size(); p++){	// loop through letters
+// The location in memory is determined by the value of the letter
+* = spriteMemory + fontMap.get(l).charAt(p)*64 	// determine memory location
+// Transfer the graphics in the GIF to the sprite
+.fill 63, spriteFont.getSinglecolorByte((p*3)+mod(i,3), l*21+floor(i/3))
+} // for-loop p
+} // for-loop l
+</code>