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The Commodore 64 sprite editor
Spritemate can now have more than just one animation. To create an animation, click on the first sprite and enter the last sprite number in the animation window. Animated sprites are now marked with a blue "A" badge in the sprite list.
Yes, it's finally here. You can now edit multiple sprites at once in the editor window. Just set the desired layout for your sprites (for example 2 by 2) and start drawing. Spritemate automatically uses the right color for each sprite. Thx to Elliot Tanner who suggested the idea a year ago but I was too lazy to implement it.
This took a lot of work and refactoring... Spritemate now has a feature called playfield, which you can access from the View menu. The playfield is basically a canvas where you can drag around sprites to arrange them for multi-sprite layouts. You can stack sprites onto others, stretch them and use the grid mode for pixel exact placement. Adding a sprite to the playfield is done via a new button in the sprite list - not the most intuitive yet, but working. Hope you like it!
Happy New Year! I've updated the sprite import from PNG, it now does even more magic and identifies spritesheets. It should correctly identify if a sprite is single- or multicolor and it should be smart enough to set the multicolor and singlecolor values based on their occurance in the image. It's tricky stuff and I'm sure there will be edge cases where it does not work (first edge case: don't use borders between sprites), but its a good start!
Spritemate can now import a 24x21 pixel image in PNG format and convert it into a sprite. The import happens automagical, meaning that Spritemate tries to identify the right format (singlecolor or multicolor) based on pixel width and the right colors based on euclidean distance.
Oh boy, I've dodged that bullet literally for years now, but thanks to AI support, I finally got some basic animation support in. The animation window is closed by default and can be opened from the View menu. The functionality is simple as of now: you can enter a start and end sprite number and the desired fps (frames per second) and finally the mode of animation (ping pong or restarting). You can't have more than one animation defined at the moment, but the animation information is saved in the Spritemate file format, too.
Sprites can now be exported as a Spritesheet PNG image. You can specify the number of rows and Spritemate tries to evenly spread the sprites. Furthermore a border can be applied as an option.
No more accidental work loss! Spritemate now saves the current workstage in your browser's local storage. This means that if you accidentally reload the page or revisit Spritemate after a while, your sprites are still there for you.
This release adds the probably most requested feature, a select tool. You can now activate it from the tool bar and draw a rectangle around an area. The draw, erase and fill operations now only work inside the selection. Also, you can select the move tool and move the selection around to copy the content to another location. Once you're done, hit the Escape (ESC) key to deselect.
While spritemate was working fine using the now deprecated jQueryUI, I wasn't happy with all the extra code and quirks for window management. With the help of the trusty AI overlord, I finally took the effort to remove all jQuery code from the project. This might result in minor visual issues, but hopefully nothing breaks functionally. I'm quite happy it's finally done.
Finally a feature release, thanks to the amazing contribution by Elliot Tanner. Spritemate now has a VICE Snapshot Monitor and sprite grabber, making it even easier to import sprites from any game. Just export a snapshot image from VICE (make sure to use the latest version) and load it into spritemate. Now from the file menu choose the VICE Snapshot Monitor and import sprite data. For a quick overview, enter "help" into the monitor and watch this great tutorial video from Elliot himself.
Ahhhh.... it's finally time to vibe code some life into Spritemate again. Let's see how far it gets us today:
Export 0 sprites as a single spritesheet image. Sprites are arranged in rows with optional 1 pixel spacing.