An 8-direction walking character

Intermediate · about 10 minutes

1. Import an animated character

Drag the goblin from the free library onto Pixor, or a rigged character of your own: glTF or FBX with its clips. The import says how many bones and clips arrived.

2. Eight cameras

In the Scene step, click South in the Outliner. Set Game to Top-down RPG (a three-quarter view from above), then Ring round the model to 8. Pixor adds a camera per side, named for the side each sees: South, Southeast, East, Northeast, North, Northwest, West, Southwest.

They share one view, pitch and size, so they share one sheet, one palette and one pixel scale. That is what keeps the eight directions looking like the same character.

3. The walk

In the Action step, click Walk in the Actions list. If the character drifts forward as it walks, keep it in place in the action’s Inspector (root motion): the sprite stays on its pivot, and the offset is written for your engine.

4. Fewer, better frames

A walk at 24 frames a second is far too many frames for pixel art. Open the Asset step and choose the Sprites node: press Smart frames, then set Kept frames to about 6. Pixor keeps the pose extremes, each held until the next, the way an animator picks keys. Or set Frames/s to 8 to 12 for a steady rate.

5. Check it

Play the result in the 2D View. Light bands hold until a surface has clearly turned, and pixels that would blink for a frame are kept steady, so the walk shouldn’t flicker. Turn on the pixel grid (Shift+G) and onion skin (O) to look closer.

6. Export for your engine

Export writes a sheet with one row per side. For Godot, add the Godot SpriteFrames output in the Asset graph: every side becomes an animation of an AnimatedSprite2D (Godot guide). For touching up by hand, add the Aseprite file: a tag for every side, ready to paint on (re-bakes keep your paint).

Next

• Top-down RPG sprites: sizes and cameras for the genre.
• Sub-pixel animation.