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A topic by Shinos created Mar 06, 2023 Views: 477 Replies: 4

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Shinos1 year ago (4 edits)

Hi, possible buyer here, i tried the demo and it is awesome ! i had only a couple of questions to ease my mind, i was wandering if more support for animations is planned for the future, i am referring to both importing gifs or spritesheet in the program to create and customize actual animations not included in the "Dynamic" ones, or like more in depth support for 3d animation (not only rotating etc... like correct me if i am wrong but if i would like to generate a pixelated spritesheet from an animation of a running 3d model character i can't do in this current iteration of the software am i right?)

PS: also is there a way to customize and create color palette inside the software? (beside importing new ones)

CodeManuDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Hi there!

More support is planned actually, the timeline update is now in beta and will be publicly available soon, that further expands the animation possibilities. GIFs and Spritesheets can currently be imported in SpriteMancer.

3D is very primitive at the moment, but more options are planned and they will be coming this year.

Color palettes cannot be customized inside the app (you can enable/disable single colors). That's not planned but It's something that I can look into adding.

You can check the current roadmap here: https://codemanu.notion.site/e9d17c49c5934be1a455627285fcf76d?v=2cca6f98bf9e4d9e...

Shinos1 year ago (3 edits)

Thank you, i said that about gifs because i tried to import some gifs and they made the software crash, but then i tried with a smaller one animation i made in Aseprite and it went good even if it's a little weird to switch beetween the various frames of the animation, maybe the timeline will improve this i am glad you said it's a planned update, that's awesome. I also noticed the "splice" option to to make the animation from the spritesheet inside the software, that's cool i didn't noticed that i'm sorry.
If support like this for 3D animation would be implemented in the future it would become the ultimate tool for pixel artist.
thank you very much for your response

(PS: as for the palette customization i think it would be a great improvement to be able to change or create actual new color palettes inside the software, so you do not have to go find new ones or create them in external, also a last question: can i put a different node option to each indivdual frame?)

CodeManuDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

You can add multiple Input nodes and connect them to nodes that aren't in a chain, so you can apply different effects to different layers. The node system will have a major upgrade in the following updates though.

The GIF support is kinda there, I need to improve the support and performance in a future update too.

Palette customization sounds great, but that would probably take a huge chunk of development time that is more needed in other places at the moment. I've added it to the private roadmap so It's something that I'll tackle at some point in the future.

Shinos1 year ago

Thank you, that's all awesome. Congrats for your software !

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