Mike at BrashMonkey

Hi Mike,thanks for the feedback!
 
I have folders organized as:
- head
- torso
- arms
- legs
- lower_legs
 
But each of these sub folders have dozens of body parts, with arms approximating 50 sprites! This makes switching sprites a real tedious task as i have to scroll to one side of the screen to be able to reach with the mouse the sprites far off on the opposite side. The lack of alternative way to changesprites makes it so that i have to do it that way. Keyboard shortcuts to circle through the list going left or right would be a real life changer !
 
Thanks
 
Tom.

Hi,
I've been using Spriter on and off for a couple years now and I've really started to pick up with it a few month ago. There are a few quality-of-life improvement I wish we could get, amongst which live switching images on a Sprite:
As far as I know, the only quick way to change the image of a sprite is to click and hold the right mouse button, to display a visual horizontal list of the images attached to it (linked to the folder it's from or limited to the object's images), then move the mouse cursor to the image wanted and release the mouse button. The issue I have is that the horizontal list gets out of the screen since I usually have way more images in any given folder than the 15 or so items that can be displayed on my screen.
The easiest solution I see would be to have keyboard shortcuts to circle through the folder images, backward or forward on a selected sprite object. Maybe this already exists but I could not find how to do it.
Spriter is a great tool, simple and efficient, and it would make using it much smoother with this little change!
 
Thanks,

Tom.

Yeah, reinstalling windows should definitely not be necessary. Let's avoid that. 

I just noticed in the error message you posted that it mentions wintab.. I think this has to do with tablets... There are other known cases, mostly from the past were some specific tablet drivers (like some specific variants of wacom drivers) would cause crashes.
Could you please try disconnecting a tablet if you use one and temporarily disable or uninstall the driver, just so we can verify that is the cause?
Thanks.

Agreed. It might be possible you only need to unplug the tablet or there might be a way to just disable the driver quickly without uninstalling it. No matter what, this clearly is not a "solution", just a way to use Spriter as needed while a real solution is being found.  It would also likely be a great help if you could tell us the exact brand and model number of tablet you're using.
Thanks.
-Mike at BrashMonkey

Thanks Mike! And thank you to you and the team  for Spriter!  I've been using it for years now, It's so fast and simple to use which makes it the perfect tool for my purpose. Being able to distribute rigged puppets created in an easy to learn yet powerful and affordable piece of software which others can easily use has really allowed me to do what I do! 
Thank you!

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If you've already got knowledge of Spriter you'll be glad to know that all my animated characters are created using this sofware and I supply all my assets with the working SCML file so you can tweak the characters to your hearts delight.   

You can see all my work on the site check it out gamedeveloperstudio.com

We'd need to see the code, not the running game to be able to possibly help.

It's all looking really good.

This is it so far, I'll make more videos when I can. Collision rectangles are normal construct sprites once imported into Construct 2 or 3... look for them in the family folder of the Spriter project you imported... you can do overlap or collision checks for them just like any other standard Construct sprites.
 

This is it so far, I'll make more videos when I can. Collision rectangles are normal construct sprites once imported into Construct 2 or 3... look for them in the family folder of the Spriter project you imported... you can do overlap or collision checks for them just like any other standard Construct sprites.
 

Thank you! everything is working now:) Great Vids btw.
Cheers

Hi, I'm a former gamedev student, graduated last summer. Here are my latest Spriter works, made last fall. They were originally supposed to be placeholder assets for future game projects, but I ended up polishing them like I would've done with final assets.
I was originally going to show my projects here in summer 2017, but then just few days before uploading my works, I suddenly had  the hardest change in my life, which interrupted my works and affected the final year of my studies as well. Coming back here now, I'm showing my new works as opposed to those I was originally going to. In the last school Project before graduation, I worked as a 3D artist, being responsible of animations as well. As a result of this, my animation skills have been improved since mid 2017 and I'm not happy with the older material anymore, they look kinda bad comparing to new stuff. I may show the game, the old sprites were featured in, if people are interested.
The sprites shown in this page can be used in multiple ways, but the general purposes are for a prototype of a side scrolling action game, mixing platforming and combat. The inspirations come from Rayman, Odin Sphere, Ori and the Blind Forest, Dust an Elysian Tail and Shantae.
Axegroth, the Dragon and the golem are meant to be playable, Crusadroid is meant to be an enemy (or boss with some tweaks).
EDIT: Sorry I'm figuring out, why I can't make YT embeds show.
EDIT: Oh well, I just put the links here. Sorry for the mess. 
 
 
 
 
 

Odds are you have an issue like the one explained in this video starting around 23 seconds in. : 
 

Never mind - I've discovered that holding down the Windows key (or whatever the equivalent on your keyboard - I really should get around to getting an Arch or a Tux key) before holding down Alt-Left Click overrides the window manager behaviour and allows me to create bones in Spriter. I would imagine it also works in other apps that use this shortcut.

Ah. That is odd. You're the first person to ever report such an issue. It's especially strange this is only effecting the original art folder.
It will be very hard to fix this if we can't reproduce it and figure out what is causing this specifically for you and not other Mac Spriter users... hopefully we can figure the cause.

In the mean-time, I think it would be easier for you to use a search and replace function in a text editor to simply modify your new character map to be pointing from the images int he original folder.  You can load an scml file into any good text editor to manually edit it.
 
I'll see if I can replace this character map setting bug on my mac and report back here.

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Game is the 2D narration in style of ancient Russia. In it you should make the choice: 
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For me the 'sloppy" approach is fastest, because I approach the creation of the art as a very organic process where I start fast and lose, and change and improve everything as I go... so I get the majority of design and decision-making work done as 1 layer, then I break it into body parts by freehand selecting and copying and pasting and copying and deleting, and then finally clean up each body part, using a group with as many layers as I'd like per body part. 

Gimp is not a program specializing in pixel art and indexed color modes, so when it saves its rearanging the palette and likely removing unused colors etc to make the resulting PNG smaller. You might be able to find a setting in Gimp's options to have it "not reduce color depth" of PNG images while saving, but if not, you'll need to use a program specializing in editing pixel art, like Pro Motion NG etc. 

If I understand you properly, yes, you'd have to update the portrait manually too. They are separate hand drawn images. The program has no idea if and how you modified one and can not artistically interpret your changes and translate that to the large portrait chest images.

just find the folder with the chest images and edit that to match your new design.
 

It's not simply enough to get the images back into indexed color mode... it must have the color indexes in the same exact order as the unedited originals for the palette changing features to work properly with it.

It would help to use a graphics program specializing in indexed graphics modes (pixel art) as opposed to programs more dedicated to high res full color photo manipulation etc.
It's ideal to use a graphics program that keeps the color palette intact when loading and saving it.
I personally use Pro Motion NG, but any pixel art creation software should work the way you need with the least hassle.
 

Yes, my guess is even though the character is the same size, due to the number of resulting frames (duration of animation) AND the overall size of each frame (due to position of character, such as arms extended, tail extended etc ) combine to demand a bigger total spritesheet image than Spriter is capable of. 
 
I'm glad to hear you're using Unity! This should solve all your problems! http://brashmonkey.com/forum/index.php?/topic/4477-spriterdotnetunity/

If it has any issues importing or playing back your Spriter files, please report them on that thread.
 

Sorry for the delay. Edgar is currently tied up with work on Spriter 2 until we can release the next bit of update info for it. We'll be setting up a C3 subscription shortly for testing and development once Edgar's hands aren't so full. Hopefully it won't be too much longer.
Thanks as always for your patience and support.

Hi FailedStarfish,
Are you using the new build of Spirter (r5) or R4?
The size of the png's you're using is not as important as what the total size of each frame would be. For example, even if your separate images are 1x1 pixels, if they are 1000 pixels away from each other in the animation, then each frame will be massive. 
Can you please make a screen grab or screen recording video showing the attempted export and most importantly, what export settings you're using.
Also, feel free to email your Spriter project to mike@brashmonkey.com and tell me which animation you're trying to export and at what settings and i'll see if I can figure out the issue. This is most likely the fastest way to get the issue resolved.
 
cheers.
 

Yes, my guess is even though the character is the same size, due to the number of resulting frames (duration of animation) AND the overall size of each frame (due to position of character, such as arms extended, tail extended etc ) combine to demand a bigger total spritesheet image than Spriter is capable of. 
 
I'm glad to hear you're using Unity! This should solve all your problems! http://brashmonkey.com/forum/index.php?/topic/4477-spriterdotnetunity/

If it has any issues importing or playing back your Spriter files, please report them on that thread.