PURPOSE:

 

The sprite editor serves two main purposes:​

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• Makes creating and editing sprite sheets easy

• Saves data in a format compatible with the engine's palette indexing

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It's arguably better at the first objective than any free application, but the second objective is what really makes it necessary - manually converting image files into
Echodream's format is extremely tedious and time-consuming.

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FEATURES:

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• Paintbrush, paint bucket, eyedropper, color replace, and selection tools

• Cut/copy/paste

• Undo/redo

• Edit sprite sheet dimensions, frame size, frame count

• Displays animation with modifiable speed

• Select, copy, delete, and reorder frames with mouse

• Flip/rotate frames

• And more!

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FUTURE PLANS:

• Improved scaling (currently scaling up is functional but unfinished, scaling down is not implemented)

• Toolbar (tools are currently toggled with hotkeys)

• Transparent background setting (background is always treated as transparent right now)

• Customizable skin (in case you get tired of the Miami Vice meets Lite-Brite aesthetic)

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