Wasn't to sure if to post this here or the off-topic section, will leave that decision to the moderators :D
While trawling through the net I cam across the Allegro Sprite Editor (ASE) at http://www.aseprite.org/ (http://www.aseprite.org/)
It was recently updated in September & despite it's name it is not tied or for exclusive use with Allegro. Looking through the features it seems to be pretty capable & might be useful for some & I will be giving it a play around later.
At the moment I tend to use GIMP & Fireworks CS5 for my bitmap gfx & occasionally (this will make some people laugh) Dpaint/PPaint on my Amiga emulator. Tools for working with Sprites/Bitmaps are not as easy to find I feel as most programs tend to focus more on Photoediting or Touchup.
If anyone else uses a tool for Sprites or Bitmaps please post them here with what you feel helps with the creation process.
Thanks
Lee
And dosen´t that program looks pretty??
It also has a light table to knock animations, so it is game for me!
It is also open source, great, maybe I can pester people down at gp2x forum´s to make a caanoo port ::)
Only thing missing in grafx is animation support, but this one sprite editor has such a lovely interface.
Thanks for the link!
Yep, thanks for the link! :good:
I use this one now and again, good for working a pixel level.
http://www.qualibyte.com/pixelformer/ (http://www.qualibyte.com/pixelformer/)
Woot! DPaint on the Amiga emulator! Great!
It used to be a program called "Micrografx Picture Publisher" (v8 and 10 were the best) that was very useful for pixel-paint.
Don't know if this old programs would work on Win7...
Quote from: Sixth Sense on 2011-Nov-04
I use this one now and again, good for working a pixel level.
http://www.qualibyte.com/pixelformer/ (http://www.qualibyte.com/pixelformer/)
Thanks, will give it a look. I am always interested in sprite etc editors that concentrate more on pixel pushing then image processing :)
Quote from: ampos on 2011-Nov-04
Woot! DPaint on the Amiga emulator! Great!
Seriously, if someone brought Dpaint 5 out on the PC i would be in heaven :D
Lee
Do you know that DPaint was also done on windows as native?
Quote from: ampos on 2011-Nov-04
Do you know that DPaint was also done on windows as native?
Yes & it was crap, not even close to the Amiga version :(
brilliance was quite nice too. maybe a mix? Animation and onion skin (light table) is a required spot for me.
ASE has onion skinning, although I have not had a chance to play with it fully yet.
Lee
ProMotion beats them all...
It's commercial but has the full feature set. I especially like its palette sorting functions, dithering patterns, etc.
Haven't seen anything on par with it yet. It's like nuclear DPaint on steroids.
And it's all about pixels, no photo editing in there...
It's just been upgraded to 6.5 which finally added support for non-square pixels, to draw in Atari/Apple II/C64 style.
Why is no one rewriting DPaint for the PC? I mean, it's a pretty easy program, isn't it?
Quote from: Kitty Hello on 2011-Nov-09
Why is no one rewriting DPaint for the PC? I mean, it's a pretty easy program, isn't it?
Go on then! =D
@Kitty:
ProMotion is DPaint on the PC, or as close as you need to get. I have used it for years although I think a lot of the "improvements" that have been made sometimes clutter the whole experience of using it.
Quote from: Kitty Hello on 2011-Nov-09
Why is no one rewriting DPaint for the PC? I mean, it's a pretty easy program, isn't it?
"A tribute to Deluxe Paint" (http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/)
I do all my pixel work with it. :good:
grafx is quite good, I run it on caanoo it works great.
pixels on the go...
pixels before sleeping...etc
but still no animation support.
it has layers, so it is not impossible to do animation, but no way of testing the speed/tempos you will require.
you guys may also wanna check this moai:
http://fenixblade.allegronetwork.com/nav_mo.htm
in grafx2 - how can I draw "transparent" pixels? Can you give a small tutorial?
Quote from: Kitty Hello on 2011-Dec-27
in grafx2 - how can I draw "transparent" pixels? Can you give a small tutorial?
I haven't used that myself yet, but I think this would work.
http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/wiki/TransparentButton
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TransparentButton
Layers transparency
UserManual
Updated Oct 27, 2011 by yrizoud
Layers transparency
Left click
Selects the transparent color as background pen color.
Right click
The current Background color becomes the color considered transparent for the layers.
aseperite (1st post in topic) won my heart!
It does clean palette image manipulation, has an indexed colour for transparency, shows a checkerboard for transparent areas and can zoom/pan with the mouse wheel/middle mouse button.
Thank you so much.
And using Amiga Emulator?¿, AmigaUE I think It´s called... this have to work...