Sprites in Detail

Sprites in Detail

v0. 6. 1

- Better handling of Menu and Calendar Sprites

V

0. 6. 0

- Updated for SDV 1. 6

New in V0. 3. 0:

Thanks to a request by Aimon111, the ability to arbitrarily draw sprites in any resolution:

Please see the Pixel Replacements section below for usage

Installation

Extract ZIP to your Stardew Valley/Mods directory

Requirements

Content Patcher

What is Sprites in Detail?

Sprites in Detail is a SMAPI Modding Resource akin to ContentPatcher allowing the Visual replacement of sprites with higher resolution versions.

Multiplayer should work, but all changes are client-side and, if mods differ, will not be visible to other players.

Unmodded, sprites are limited to a 16x32 rectangle:

With this mod, the sprites are instead given 64x128 pixels, however, when drawn into Stardew, they will be scaled so that the sprite will have 32x64 pixels to occupy the normal space.

In effect, this grants the ability to draw higher resolution sprites, and also provides additional height and width to extend the original sprite.

Abi is feeling a little fuzzy

In addition, it's possible to arbitrarily add any image in place of another:

How does Sprites in Detail work?

Sprites in Detail follows a similar render-focused approach as other high-compatibility Sprite alteration libraries such as HDSprites, or SpriteMaster.

SiD textures are loaded but do not interact with Stardew's logic until the actual Draw operation. During a Draw, SiD will instead draw the texture with the specifications desired.

The benefit of this approach is that no sizing, bounds, or other logic is impacted by a SiD texture. This maintains a very high level of compatibility with Events, Pathing, and bounding calculations.

The largest negative is collision boxes of the NPCs remain exactly as they were.

If you make a particularly wide sprite, the character will still be able to get exactly as close as before:

Gus thinks you might be a little too close

How do I use Sprites In Detail? 

For Mod Authors, usage is similar to other SMAPI Content Packs:

1.) Create your higher resolutio