Retrotation

Hey Lucid, sent you an email! @Udo - My drivers were out of date by about 6 months! Oops :P I went ahead and updated, but I didn't get really any improvement. Undo/Redoing takes about 3+ seconds also, which seems to be the slowest action I experience. It can be frustrating when you do the wrong action due to low frame-rate, and it takes even longer to undo it heh Spriter is a great animation solution in progress though - anyone looking at this thread, please don't be deterred! I look forward to seeing all the improvements and additions coming in the future :]

Cool tip! Nvidia Control Panel ---> Manage 3D Options ---> Program Settings ---> (add Spriter.exe to the list) I forced all the available options to provide extra performance. I now get about 1 second or less delay inbetween actions, but my FPS is still generally around 5... If anyone else has input on how to improve Spriter performance, it'd be very helpful to many people!

^^^ I second the IK controllers. Was disappointed I did not find any in Spriter. -snapping art pieces to a grid. -nearest-neighbor resampling while zooming (one of the projects our company is attempting to utilize Spriter for is pixel art... difficult to work with when your pixels are all blurry!) -transparency mask/alpha mask support. Would be great to be able to load up a black/white image to obscure other layers during animation. -undo/redo functions could use a descriptor for what specific action it is undoing or redoing.

Oops: so the main point of this topic - are there any small tricks or tips to speed up performance? I double-checked to make sure that Spriter is utilizing the Nvidia card versus the integrated Intel chip. Not sure if there is anything else I can do. Any suggestions?

I'm getting really sluggish performance on a Lenovo laptop: 2.9quadcore i7 processor, 8gigs of ram, Geforce GT 630M. When I load up a project with 15 pieces at an average resolution of 100x100px (with a comparable amount of bones and links for a human animation), I get an FPS of about 5 or less per second along with up to a 2 second delay when performing actions. I love what Spriter is trying to accomplish as a toolkit, and it runs perfectly great inside an engine - it's just very rough still on the artist/workflow end. My company is producing two titles using Spriter. While I can't reveal who we are at the moment, here are some things that could really benefit us: -snapping art pieces to a grid. -nearest-neighbor resampling while zooming (one of the projects our company is attempting to utilize Spriter for is pixel art... difficult to work with when your pixels are all blurry!) -transparency mask/alpha mask support. Would be great to be able to load up a black/white image to obscure other layers during animation.