• All object selection is done with left mouse button
  
• All object editing/transforming is done with right mouse button
  
• Use middle mouse button to scroll and zoom in/out
  
• Move, Rotate and Scale tools have G, R, S shortcuts respectively
  
• Use [Ctrl + Left mouse button] to select objects additively
  
• Use [Shift + Left mouse button] to select objects in an area
  
• Ctrl and Shift can be used together to select an area additively
  
  
• It's highly recommended to use sprites with transparent background (alpha channel)
  
• Program uses prefiltered bicubic image scaling algorithm so you can use stupidly high resolution sprites
  
• In order to reload an existing template and render it, you need to also load sprites with the same name, otherwise they will be shown as a (broken image) sprite.
  

Screenshot (Click to View)

• File watcher - automatic reimporting of image files when changed
  
• Grid clipping - grid cells should not interfere with each other
  
• Easier editing - current editing seems unintuitive
  
• Shortcuts - to make life easier for us all
  
• Undo & Redo - maybe if I'm motivated enough, convince me
  
• Prompt while exiting - currently it doesn't ask if you want to save
  

(09-17-2018, 02:03 PM)Luigi600 Wrote:  I had a similar idea for my project but you was faster.
Looks neat. I will be pleased of updates and planned features.

PS:
None installer

(09-17-2018, 03:08 PM)Nightmarex1337 Wrote:  stop clicking stupid buttons

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  Because we don't ALL have the time or an existing project that needs custom sprites(and even then drawing the body parts to piece them together is time-consuming) to really fully test this and most of the activity nowadays is in the Discord, and I did share it there to get the people who might have those to try it.

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  1) You have all those features, but you don't allow people to drag images around or(nvm, found out its right click) their frame camera view around(only zoom in/out). Am I missing something in the controls? Because that's a very huge turnoff.

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  2) You can't directly type the position coordinates from scratch, you have to edit the existing numbers the program listed for you.

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  The fullstop key turns into a degree sign apparently.

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  I also notice you have to mouse over to the right side of the screen first or the text you're trying to type/select would be rendered null; not necessarily a bad thing.

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  3) Noticed that deleting the resource doesn't also delete the object, but doesn't seem to have the ability to edit the now image-less object. There's also no ability to use the "delete" key on your keyboard as a shortcut.

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  4) Apparently there's bring to front and send to back, but there's no intermediate option?

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  6) Apparently I can't save, but I couldn't replicate this error after I closed and tried again:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/386900981822259200/491377852948938752/unknown.png
EDIT: found out its due to STM_pic.png, which is the pic with a blue background. Can't be an issue with bmp/png or filename or folder location. Has to be something else. Its a 23kb png with 458x148 dimensions, and I've added far larger images that also stretch outside the template area with no issues.

(09-18-2018, 07:41 AM)Azriel Wrote:  How I see your sprite sheet generator (I'm on Linux, so can't test it out yet) is, it is building up the positions of where the sprite parts should go. Are you storing the sprite sheet template in a format that's easy for other apps to parse (e.g. json, yaml, toml) so that, e.g. after defining the template, people can make their own sprite parts and run a command line tool to generate the final sprite sheet?

(09-18-2018, 02:10 PM)Nightmarex1337 Wrote:  I don't see what you're getting at by "all those features" but this is more of a working prototype than anything production ready.

(09-18-2018, 02:10 PM)Nightmarex1337 Wrote:  

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  The fullstop key turns into a degree sign apparently.

I don't even know what you're talking about here.

(09-18-2018, 02:10 PM)Nightmarex1337 Wrote:  

(09-17-2018, 10:24 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  3) Noticed that deleting the resource doesn't also delete the object, but doesn't seem to have the ability to edit the now image-less object.

This is by design. Templates are not strongly tied to sprites (i.e. they are weak references). Makes things more modular & reusable.

(09-18-2018, 02:10 PM)Nightmarex1337 Wrote:  I'm having one of those "how is this even possible" programmer moments right here. I can look into it if you hand over your STM_pic.png

(09-18-2018, 11:56 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  Yeah my point is that I apparently can't change the resource used by the affected object to something else.

(09-26-2018, 07:54 AM)Gad Wrote:  Hey not bad!! I'v been thinking about such a thing myself, but figured there's not much of use considering that there are other good spriting tools.
I have not been reading whole topic, so please excuse me if these have been mentioned already.
I didn't have much time to review, but here's few suggestions:

1- Creating custom stacked symbol groups, so ready objects that contain symbols.
2- Viewing current sprite only / animation - so you could see how frames are transitioning. Editing them just by seeing them next to each other is much harder.
3- Skew/bend/distort functions
4- Bar at top is very unintuitive, regular move/scale/rotate should be allowed by clicking on different parts of the picture on the board. (THAT's A MUST in graphic edtior like that)
5- Bring to front/send to back - where are the move by 1 layer options? Couldn't find.
6- Replacing symbols??
7- Applying shaders to symbols would be cool (changing color and other)

That's it for now. I'll let you know once I come up with more.

Also - would be cool if you joined discord.
Cheers!