I have had a look at the graphics available via the main sites main page and think its great, although not much of it is of use to me right now.

I did note that one of the aeroplanes had 3 images in the set that would give the very cool effect of 'winging over' as I would describe it, when moving side ways in a top down game. My question is this, is creating the left and right 'winging over' images difficult to do? I ask as I am making a Top Down shooter and have a very good Top Down view and thin it would be another level of polish to have my player ship 'winging over'

Cheers.

It usually isn't too hard to perform an effect like that, so long as you have a good eye. If you want to be kind of cheap about it, though, you can just scale it on the x axis, but if you want it to look really polished, go for the sprite series.

If you have the skill to do so, you could even make a 3D model and render it as your sprite, and you could just rotate it for the 'winging over' effect.

The other cheap way of doing it, although its probably a bit too cheap, is to apply a perspective filter to the top down image. I've tried -9% and +9% filter and now have 'something' like a wing over effect in both left and right directions. I haven't tried it out yet in GM, but I'll drop an update once I have.

Nah; that doesn't really work all that well...

I actually had a little fun doing this. I made a GM app that will simulate fairly well this effect using just a few x-scaled sprites.

http://aslaizone.co.cc/programs/gm/example/wingover/

Haha nice team work on that one. This wouldn't be too hard to just animate however. Just shorten each wing by a few pixels and adjust the shading to look like one wing is further away from the viewer.