I have a few more recommendations related to these things:

• When I was modifying the story mode offsets, I noticed that each week’s .json file sets the animations and offsets for the characters’ assets. To avoid having to do this in every .json file for each week, I recommend creating a single .json file that contains the animations and offsets for each character. The weekly .json files would just use that file to select which characters to include in each week. If it’s not possible to include all characters in a single .json file, then make a separate .json file for each character, similar to how the characters’ .json files are handled within the game.

• It would also be nice that, once the sprites can be flipped horizontally perfectly, there’s no need to create separate playable variants of characters, like with Pico, who has both an opponent and a player variant.

• Similarly, in the story mode menu, adjust the scale as necessary to display correctly and flip the sprite horizontally, like with Pico, so there’s no need for different sprites for his playable and opponent versions.

• For characters with several animation sprites (such as BF, GF, Pico, Nene, Tankman, or even Skid and Pump and Senpai), it would be good to create a folder within the "characters" folder for each of them, containing all their animation sprites. This way, the characters folder won’t get cluttered with multiple sprites for different animations of the same character.

• It would also be helpful to combine some sprite sheets at some point to reduce the number, like Pico’s singing and fail animations, or BF’s cheer animation, etc.

• At the same time, separate certain animations, such as BF’s death animation, so they aren’t on the same sprite sheet as the base BF animations. This way, BF variants don’t have to access the entire original sprite sheet just to display the death animation.

• Please optimize and organize the sprite sheets better. Remove large blank spaces and organize the animations more like this:
  
  Source of the image: https://gamebanana.com/mods/296576

P.S. Sorry for including so many recommendations. There are many things I’d like to see improved in the game for better organization (and I’m not good enough at programming to add all of this myself, sorry).

Thank you for working on pixel perfect offsets! It's also something I care a great deal about.

I want to mention that #39 makes adjustments to every character's offsets as well. Does this PR set to do the same thing as the other one?

I want to mention that #39 makes adjustments to every character's offsets as well. Does this PR set to do the same thing as the other one?

Oh, thanks for letting me know about that PR, I hadn’t seen it. When I started modifying the character offsets a long time ago, I only looked at the PRs for the game’s source code, and I didn’t know that the assets had their own section with their own PRs, so to speak. It was only when I was about to submit the PR that I realized this, and I completely forgot to check if this request had already been made before.

The changes I made in this PR were all related to the animation offsets and organizing the characters’ .json files a bit. I didn’t consider their in-game positions because I didn’t have a reference for all of them to align to a common position, like in request #39. That’s why I mentioned that such an implementation would be a good addition here:

One way to ensure characters don't look strange in different environments (outside of their own) and to make them more compatible with all backgrounds would be to add a reference in the animation editor to show where the characters should be positioned. A reference "X" could be added at position [0, 0], and based on that "X," you could modify the character's general offset to keep it centered relative to the "X" (it would be helpful if there was a way to adjust the character’s offset, not just individual animation offsets).

I just checked request #39, and it also changes the animation offsets, though it slightly modifies the idle animations too, and I prefer to keep them at [0, 0]. Basically, my PR does the same thing as #39, but without changing the characters' positions so they remain compatible in all stages.

I could try adjusting the offset for each character completely, as well as in each scenario file, so that everything can be 100% compatible. I would do this mainly because I think request #39 is outdated.