Create Your Own Mascot

Read Image

Drag and Drop you prefered image file to Moe binary, the image file is opened as mascot. Left top most pixel of image file is treated as transparent color. Moreover Moe consider alpha channel of image file. So you can treat translucent image.

Decide Position

Drag the mascot, and locate prefred position on window.

When you want to locate mascot based for left or right side, click mascot with holding Alt+Shift+Ctrl, select your prefered side from "Side".

Lock Position

Lock Y position. If needed, also Lock X position.

Setup Animation

Moe has a capability to add wink animation to the mascot.

For example, when you want to add wink animation to an image file "moe.png", Prepare two image file "moe2.png"(eye half closed), "moe3.png"(eye closed) for animation pattern, setup animation orderd moe.png -> moe2.png -> moe3.png -> moe2.png -> (moe.png). Set every frame wait to 8ms. Type below on Terminal.

Moe --add-anime=wink --wait=8 moe.png moe2.png moe3.png moe2.png

Animation image file must have same size with mascot image file. Moe automatically detect animation region.

Animation pattern is registerd with name MOE:ANIME:<Animation Name> as mascot file's attribute.

Archive

Archive mascot file with ZipOMatic, so on. Mascot's position, animation etc. is saved as BFS attribute, you must archive these attributes with zip format.