Mike at BrashMonkey

When I click the Current Time field above the timeline to jump to a frame, the numbers highlight as they should. But if I start typing in a frame number to jump to, instead of changing the numbers, the software takes the inputs as shortcut keys and I usually end up locking sprites, hitting play, and a bunch of other stuff before realizing the numbers are not changing. I can't edit the numbers until I double-click on the numbers again (un-highlight and re-highlight). It does this every time I go to click on the Current Frame field. This is pretty annoying. I am on Windows 7 Pro. Spriter 10.

very glad to help. certainly no need for apologies
Cheers.

Something like this is planned for Spriter 2, but almost certainly won't make it into Spriter Pro, as the entire data structure and core code of Spriter woulsd have to be changed, which would not only further postpone Spriter 2, but it would also break compatibility with all existing Spriter API's.

Hi Mike,
Thats ok then. Thanks a lot for the response! I am an absolute beginner in making Sprite. I'll see how it goes with the one I've got right now first . If I like it, no doubt I will contact you to get the stand alone version - to support your company  
 
best regards
 
alex

damn thanks mike :/
I've made a petition for it and I'm thinking about posting it on the Rpgmaker MV forums, but I'm not too sure how many people would be interested, it would mean a lot if you could possibly mention this petition in a stickied post or on the news section for me, thanks so much. (Also I used the spriter logo in the petition, if you're not okay with that PM me and I will change it!)
Petition Link: https://www.change.org/p/kadokawa-corporation-rpgmaker-mv-spriter-support

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I just got it working! I downloaded 32bit and 64bit vcredist files for visual studio 2010 also and installed them and now it seems to be working.

Steam is a completely different company/marketplace system, and you retrieve the products you buy from Steam differently. 

You'll find the Essentials in the following directory: 
<Steam Installation Directory>/SteamApps/common/Spriter/Art Packs/Essentials 

Hi and welcome to the board. 
Animation looks good so far. Meshdeform is not as needed as you think. It makes things a bit more slow to finish without the feature but doable. Just slice up everything in parts. For things like clothes add some cloth pieces and frame independently each using linear tween (starting point to end point, easy peasy.. so you dont need a gazillion frames just for a little cloth moving(one of the most powerfull tools of spriter imho). For swapping parts control the transition speed so it does not look wonky. You can look at tombmonkey's work here, extremelly good without deforming feature (I tweaked his work to learn).
I can say with practice now that mesh deform is not needed in my case (faster to finish works, yes but not indispensable)).
Dont forget that meshdeforming feature in other programs is not always possible to export 100% to game engines (in data format that is the most convenient memory wise).
Cheers.

Hi!
Could it be possible to add orthogonal movement of sprites? I mean, ability to lock sprite to it's x or y-axis. In photoshop for example, it works by holding shift and moving layer up, down, left or right. This could be handy when making sine wave snake movement, closing doors etc.
Best Regards,
AreCustomize

Thanks for the reply. As much as I value your opinion, the point I was trying to make is that more testing is needed, I just gave some examples in order not to sound negative but constructive. I know that the current approach to testing is cheap and efficient, but I would advise proper testing sessions, mainly on usability and user experience. Hire 4 testers with different skill levels on Spriter (minimum for a limited budget, testers usually take 50$/hour), and observe how they approach the product. Ask questions, like "Do they get it?", ask them to perform key tasks and watch how they work. I think this will not only reveal bugs, but even usability issues. 
Personally I don't have the time to test right now, even though I want to help improve Spriter. I am using Win 10. Regarding Ctrl+D, that's a functionality for copying an object into all frames: https://puu.sh/tb1Y4/fe40ba978f.png Regarding the trial version, there was a video that mentioned that and I was surprised and I didn't download the latest patch thinking that I would lose access. If I find the video I ll link it as an edit.

Welcome duperduckey,
The best way to make such decisions is to start by making a mock-up (fake) screen of your game at the actual target resolution.
So, say for example you want your game to run at a high-res 1920x1080, you should start by making a fake screen (using layers) in a program like Photoshop or Krita (which is awesome and FREE  www.krita.org) of your game, including the player sprite, HUD and generic enemies.
 
This will hep you figure out exactly how big your player sprite needs to be.

Typically, once I do this, I then actually create the player sprite and animate it at 2x the required size in Spriter. This allows me wo work faster and a little sloppier with my art, because eventually I'll scale it back down to the actually needed resolution, and when you reduce art to 50 percent, it cleans up nicely. (don't do this if you're making a retro low-res pixel art game)

Do NOT work at crazy print resolutions!

I hope this helps.
 
 

I installed both 32 (first) and 64bit.
 

I installed spriter on a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and I got several DLL errors even after installing  Visual Studio 2013 C++ runtime.  That said, I downloaded/installed  Visual Studio 2010 C++ runtime and it resolved my problem.  Thought I'd mention it incase it helps anyone.

Edit: Putting my personal practice project on hold. Someone asked me to provide assets for their mobile game so i decided to try a different style and collaborate with them . Hope it works out.
Current progress:  https://gyazo.com/385e62617015e0cdc03058eba01e523d
 
 
I decided to post my recent idle animation after finally figuring out Spriter. Great software by the way. I only wish there was a mesh feature. Other programs out there that include it are way out of my budget (spine) so I settled for Spriter Pro. Anyway, Here's my very first animation. Going to work on a small 1 level game as a way to learn about programing, improving art, and Japanese (details in the description of my DA page). Next up, running animation \ouo/.

 

Thanks for all your awesome work, it looks great! I look forward to trying this in my project.
Happy Holidays!

Okay... I am done... except for the LWJGL implementation, which I won't implement now, since it takes more effort to code a usable one and it seems that everyone uses LibGDX anyway.
Every specific implementation has its own project:
Generic, required by every implementation: https://github.com/Trixt0r/spriter
LibGDX: https://github.com/Trixt0r/gdx-spriter
Slick2D: https://github.com/Trixt0r/slick2d-spriter
Java2D: https://github.com/Trixt0r/java2d-spriter

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First, open your steam, verify if the checkbox are selected (Image1: Spriter.png).
After this, open your Spriter, and click File>Open Project (or "ctrl+O"), and select this path (Image2: Spriter2.png):

Steam>steamapps>common>Spriter>Art Packs

And choose your installed art pack.

Note: the step1 is necessary, because you need download your Art Pack after purchase.
If you want open a animation, choose the SCML file, for example: player.scml or Boss.scml.
 

Greetings everyone,
I've been working with Spriter Pro for a while, and this fantastic tool recently caught the attention of a fellow dev. Of course, I encouraged him to take it, knowing how useful it is to bring life to our little sprites. But. If I have no doubt regarding his competences, I know that he's not very skilled in english, being a fellow baguette eater. and thus I decided to write a french traduction of the online manual to help my buddy and any other frenchies in a similar situation. Last time I checked, there was none. So here's the first version :
http://www.mediafire.com/file/xfu9qzqvlk8r35u/Spriter_Guide_V1.pdf
I expect feedbacks and advices to improve it, don't hesitate to do it by yourself if you don't want me to take care of it ! I'm not sure that there is no mistake or if it's really complete. The objective would be to add some "omelette du fromage" option on the manual's page to bring the little frenchy to the traduction.
 
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Salut à tous,
voilà un moment que je travail avec Spriter pour divers projets, et à force de l'utiliser ce fantastique outil a fini par attirer l'attention d'un autre développeur de mon entourage. Je l'ai bien évidement encouragé à le prendre, sachant à quel point cet outil peut être utile pour donner vie à nos petits sprites. Toutefois, si je n'ai aucun doute concernant ses compétences, je sais qu'il n'est pas spécialement bon en anglais. C'est pourquoi j'ai décidé d'écrire un tutoriel français pour Spriter, pour l'aider lui et d'autres compatriotes dans le même cas. Jusqu'à maintenant ils n'existaient que des guides rédigés en anglais. Donc voici la toute premiére version de la chose : http://www.mediafire.com/file/xfu9qzqvlk8r35u/Spriter_Guide_V1.pdf
J'attends des retours et des conseils pour l'améliorer. Vous pouvez aussi le faire vous même si vous le souhaitez ! L'objectif serait de rajouter une page dédiée à cette version française sur le site du guide en ligne consacré au logiciel.

Glad I could help. The fact that any object also creates mainline keys which can cause such confusion is something we'll deal with in Spriter2, but it's too much of a core functionality of Spriter Pro to do anything about, other than to explain how to get around any issues or limitations whenever possible.

Cheers.

Action points aren't designed to have a scale. they are just a point to spawn or anchor something from or to.. You could use a place-holder image or bone instead, theoretically. depending on what runtime API you're using.

This is a known bug that will hopefully be fixed in an up-coming update. In the meantime, there is a feature in the menu to copy z-order to all frames. if you fix the z-order in any frame you can then copy it to all other frames to quickly fix the z-order of your animation.

Hello,
 
i m actually working on a debug process for my game and i fund it fun to instanciate over 635 Spriter objects in construct without any lost of performance !
 

Hi Kristen,
What operating system are you using and what are your general system specs?
Thanks.