Mike at BrashMonkey

Cool. Looks great. congrats on the launch and best of luck.

My Udemy course is now live! Here

Wow, great service!  Thank you, Mike. 

Hi everyone, we've just released a new art pack and for the next 6 days you can get it at 25 percent off!

You can find it in our store here: 
DONT FORGET to use coupon code: FRONTIERS to get your discount!

This does work in GMStudio 2, at least the basic functions do, but you need to use "working_directory" when loading the spriter file.  I tested this and it loaded my file without issue.  I cannot vouch for all the other feature yet.
 

Hi everyone,
 
A quick post to keep you informed about our progress.
 
First of all, Condor is now in version 1.2. It’s a light update which adds a brand new interface as well as three new stunts and a rework on difficulty, the game should be easier on the first levels. You can download the game for free here, or buy the ads-free version here.
 
 

 
About our biggest project, Sacrifices is now on closed beta and should be released in July. As always you can check our progress on Twitter, Facebook or our Website. We should launch an open beta during this month.

Feel free to ask for a beta link if you’re interested in testing Sacrifices!
 
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Yes, if you purchased Spriter you can use any or all of the content from the Essentials versions of the art packs for any game project of yours. What you can not do is give, sell or trade any of the art pack content to someone else for them to use in their games.

Same for any of the full art packs if you purchased them. 

Sorry for the delayed reply. White is not transparent. In nearly any program, when you're using a transparent background it will be displayed as a checkerboard pattern. It sounds like you drew directly onto a white layer and not a transparent layer. Also be sure to trim your images before saving them. You should NEVER have an image floating in the middle of a giant field of empty space, this is incredibly un-optimized for your game and for Spriter. I highly recommend you learn to use Krita from www.krita.org its a fantastic and FREE graphics program with much more professional features and much better geared for game art creation (or art creation in general)
 


If you want to keep using MS Pain, then you'll have to Google "save image with transparent background in MS Paint" or something like that to learn how to do so (if it's possible. I assume so, but don't use MS Paint)
 

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Hi, I'm building a 2d online multiplayer real-time fighting game. You can play the demo here: https://gameof.ninja 
I have used flash, actionscript, starling, and texturepacker years ago. I've been doing nodeJS / Angular / React for the past few years, but I'm new to Phaser. I'm having trouble saving out my character animations (that I purchased) in a smaller size without losing image quality. 
I'm looking for someone to basically be my UI / UX design and animation coach and tutor. I love the part that is straight coding. The real look of the front-end design does not come as naturally for me (hence why I'm looking for a mentor).
I would like to video pair programming or "pair designing" sessions. It would be even better if you could meet up in the New York City / New Jersey area, but that's prob not realistic. Willing to pay $40 - $50 per hour.
 

When there is something that Spriter users know than it is that once the project path is set it cannot be changed anymore or the project images get lost. 
Well.. Here is a small guide how it can be actually changed.
 
What do you need?
Notepad++ Actually it is not a need but it's just easier to work with.
Now let's assume your Spriter File (SCML) is inside the folder where all your sprites are located.

In the above example my SCML file is called "Juggernaut". Now let's put it one folder higher in the file hierarchy.

What I did is to cut out the "Juggernaut " SCML from the "Body Parts" Folder and placed it to the parent folder.
If you open the scml file now.  After getting a pop-up dialog that notifies you about missing sprites the following thing will happen:

 
That happens because Spriter is still searching for the images in the old folder but since the file has moved the path has to be changed as well. Here is the trick

Right Click on the SCML file Choose "open with" and then your favorite editor. In my case Notepad++ Then you will see a syntax similar to xml.  Simply add a name attribute to the folder tag Give it the path to the folder your sprites are located e.g name="Body Parts" Search and replace all FILE NAME ATTRIBUTES with the path to the sprites e.g name="Body Parts/Head.png" (in the image above I had to continue it with file id = 7) Save and open Spriter the normal way Enjoy  

No more missing Sprites ;D
 
 

Having the uncropped images can cause performance problems in Spriter, which will be more noticeable the more images you use per project and per animation.

If you only plan to export your finished animations as GIF or sequential images (full frame images) then trimming is not necessary as you seem to have guessed.

Going back to the original topic, you have the export set to use "animation preset" under "source rectangle". When you set the reset cropping for the animation, were you careful to make sure there was room at the bottom so the feet would not get slightly cropped off?

Welcome GeminiEngine,
Please post a screen shot or video recording showing the export settings, even if you've not changed anything. This will help us figure out the cause of the problem faster.
In the meantime, you should always trim your images before using them in Spriter. You're wasting a massive amount of memory and drawing time with all that empty space in all your images.
 
 

I would like to ask when its going to be available in spriter, i made some animations with pixel art bodyparts and some came out ok , it doesnt look that bad when rendered with nearest neighbour but there were still some single pixels/jaggies here and there especially on the borders, im realy curious how these animations would look like when exported with new algorithm for rotating sprites.
Im posting some rendered gifs and my spriter file if you guys would like to test it when working on this feature and maybe do comparison or something :).
I made if from this single sprite : http://www.deviantart.com/art/Raphael-182598470
First three are nearest neighbour , last one is smooth sampling.

 
Spriter file:
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8RnYSep1u_YZlJBNF9kd3RUazA/view?usp=sharing

No problem. Glad to help. 

Also, regarding characters being in separate SCML files. I did not mean characters created via character maps, I meant characters who's animation data was also different.

All the Essentials Art packs are your animations and images which come free with Spriter. Yes, it includes walking characters. Click "My Purchases", then "manage" near the Spriter thumbnail, then scroll down and find the links to download all the Essentials art packs.

With Spriter Pro you can create a clone of your entire project scaled up or down to any size you want (including the images in the folder)... Do this first, then replace the enlarged images with your clean vector-created ones. HOWEVER, the images will need to be the exact same size and shape as the ones you're replacing, trimmed the exact same way. 
 
I'd recommend creating the large project clone, then use the enlarged images it produces as guides in your vector program to recreate clean vector versions... them export each image from the vector program with the exact scale and cropping as the guide image.

Hello everyone.  Here's a new Spriter release with a couple of minor additions and several important bug fixes.  Enjoy!

Download here
 
 
Spriter Release 11
Released 4/20/2017
Additions and Enhancements
Added pro feature to allow you to set background guide images per animation. It's impossible to accidentally move or edit the background images unless you enter the guide image editing mode. Guide image information is saved in a way that will be ignored by external implemenations and Spriter's own spritesheet generation. Hovering over metadata keys (variables and tags) now reveals their data Changes
Spriter will now prevent you from attempting to export to png/gif with an invalid custom rect source or target size (previously exited the dialog without exporting) Added option to right-click to rename in the z-order and hierarchy panes Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where moving animations from one entity to another would result in missing objects if the target entity already contained those objects Fixed a crash that would occur upon closing the edit variable dialog if a key was double clicked to open it and then that key was removed in the dialog Fixed a bug where variable keys couldn't be created in new animations created after the new variable was added Fixed a bug where if a project was loaded with an entity that contained a variable, keys for that variable couldn't be created in animations that didn't already have at least one key Fixed a bug that allowed you to drag an animation containing a sub-entity into the entity it was using as a sub-entity. This would corrupt the animation, as entities cannot be sub-entities of themselves Fixed a bug that would cause objects to incorrectly update angles on multiple keys after being drag/dropped under certain circumstances Fixed a bug where copy and pasting pivot points wouldn't work in certain situations Fixed several bugs and a crash when moving animations from one entity to another under certain conditions Spriter now attempts to automatically repair broken file associations that would cause default pivot points to reset to the top-left corner

Hi,
In case somebody is still interested in an SDL2 implementation, here is my attempt at it: https://github.com/maxfish/SpriterPlusPlus_SDL2
The most important thing still missing is a working support for sprite atlas, the rest works fine.
I hope it might help someone.

Hi, there's an important trick to avoid this. The Spriter plug-in in C2 uses the custom animation trimming settings from the Spriter file as the "bounding box" to decide when something should be clipped or drawn.

I'm going to bring this post to Edgar (the creator of Spriter and this particular plug-in) so he can give you more concise information.
 

 

Aside from that, Spriter Pro has an option to create a scaled clone of your entire Spriter Project.. in case you want your reduced scale version to not waste texture space/memory on needlessly large images.

Hi,
2 years ago I discovered Spriter. Since then I did tons of animations and one of my favorites are the animations of my skeleton game assets.
 










When you use Spriter the right way you can create animations like this
Not all skeleton characters shown here but there are plenty more of them..
 
 
The whole package is available here: Graphicsriver
here GameDev Market
and here Itch.io
or even here Scirra Store
 
I have even updated the package to version 1.1 and added a run animation + white skin for each skeleton like this

 
I am still planning to add more content like a musketeer, samurai skeleton etc and also more animations but lets see how this turns out. Although people who buy are really happy sales are actually not much promising. I don't know why  
 
Here a bonus:
This was done per request. The task was to make a drunken skeleton animation.

 
And when you weren't bored all the way and really reached bottom of my post you can actually DOWNLOAD A FREE SKELETON CHARACER WITH SPRITER FILE FOR FREE!
Download Free Skeleton Character
Enjoy  

Very cool addition Stranger Games. Thanks so much on behalf of the Spriter community.