Fit the blue alien sprite into the Animated Character group somehow

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TL;DR: The blue alien below's in a different folder with no fall state, larger textures, and fewer walk frames, but we can fix it

As resource handle	GitHub Folder
":resources:/images/alien/*"	arcade/resources/assets/images/alien

Overview

What's Wrong? (Assets missing / mismatched scaling, but we can work-around for now)

• Character art in our resources ("Alien") is annoyingly not-quite compatible with our other presets
• It's making doc really annoying ahead of 3.0 release

How Bad Is It? (Annoying)

• It's taking up vertical space and complicating things (special-casing, overstuffed sidebar, etc)
• 3.0 is scheduled for this Saturday
• The reporter is still annoyed enough to do a write-up

How Can We Fix it? (Move files + more doc, then add a fall state file if we have time to export SVGs)

• Delete: No. (People seem to like the little blue alien)
• Lazy "fix": Add a warning note and move it anyway as spaceAlienBlue*.png so it sorts below other characters
• Low-Effort: Export the fall frame from the SVG sources, then warn people about the different walk cycle after the move
• Higher effort: Generate frames for a perfect match from SVG sources (The extended platformer enemies pack)

Why Write All of This?

It's a set of notes for later reference for building some Arcade doc features.

What's Wrong?

The differences from other characters are:

1. It uses different state names (front instead of idle)
2. It lacks a fall frame which the other characters have
3. It uses 2 frames for its walk cycle instead of 8
4. It's in a different folder

How does it affect $AUDIENCE?

Audience	Problem(s) caused
Arcade devs	Taking up time ahead of 3.0 release (Camera, Rect, UI, etc need doc work)
Users	"Why is it missing a fall state? On weird walk timing? On a different scale?" etc
Beginners	"Sprite broken! Help!"

Example

The doc is the main concern imo:

1. It looks like an animated character
2. So why isn't it in the box with them?

3 Plausible Solutions

I can't find any hi res exports in the .zip and don't want to mess with SVG right now ahead of more pressing 3.0 tasks, so here are some ideas:

Low-Effort Stop-Gap

1. Move it to the Animated Characters resource folder anyway
2. Add a note warning this one's a little different

Medium-Effort Solution

1. Export the "hurt" frame from the SVG in matching resolution
2. Rename alienBlue_front.png to alienBlue_idle.png
3. Add a note about differing animation cycles + links

High-Effort

1. Use SVG + puppet components in Kenny packs to create matching sets
2. Ship a paper doll template in-box / on-site for users to draw their own art in

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TL;DR: This is short-term fixed as part of the 3.0 release

The alien sprite wasn't from the pack I thought it was. There was an older one that was later redone, so I found the old one and re-used one of its frames to fill in the gap. It isn't in the animated characters folder because it's a different size than the "normal" animated characters.