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Sprite / Tile design software (PC)

TonyDTonyD Posts: 210
edited 2009-11-16 09:51 in Propeller 1
Can anybody recommend PC based sprite / tile design software?

I know of Tile Studio and ProMotion but are there any other packages out there either freeware or shareware I should be considering.

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  • trodosstrodoss Posts: 577
    edited 2009-10-14 15:31
    There is ASE (Allegro Sprite Editor), that can work for sprite editing.
    http://ase.sourceforge.net/index.html

    [noparse][[/noparse]Edit:] ASE can save in different formats.· You have to look in the \files\docs\ for a description of some of· the formats, such as .ase, .fli, .msk, .pic, etc.

    If you are targeting a specific size/BPP, then there are likely other editors you could "repurpose" to suit your needs.

    NES/Game Boy tile ediors could work for some of the graphics drivers (Hydra-like ones, for example)·provided you could get them to export in the correct format, or handle with a little coding to "massage" the data.

    If all else fails (and you feel up to it) you could "roll your own" by editing a bitmap in a graphics editor, then writing a program to "break up" the image into tiles and put them in the specific format you need/want.
    [noparse][[/noparse]Edit:]· I end up doing this more often· than not, as there usually is no one editor that is a "perfect match" for what I am working on at the time.

    Post Edited (trodoss) : 10/14/2009 3:58:07 PM GMT
  • TonyDTonyD Posts: 210
    edited 2009-10-15 09:36
    Thanks I'll try out ASE.

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  • tarekumamuntarekumamun Posts: 1
    edited 2009-11-13 05:37
    I would be interested in knowing about something like that too - Admin posted a link to a dutch website that did something like this, but it was all in gobbledeegook. Images looked good though.

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  • Karl SmithKarl Smith Posts: 50
    edited 2009-11-13 12:15
    I like to use Tile Studio http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/ and Gimp for graphics

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  • BaggersBaggers Posts: 3,019
    edited 2009-11-13 22:15
    btw guys, if you use my Bmp8toLite.exe ( on the 2600 driver thread, iirc ) that has the ability to convert an 8bit bmp to many retro style modes, bitmap or charmap, various BPP's also.

    Baggers.

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  • TonyDTonyD Posts: 210
    edited 2009-11-16 09:51
    @Baggers
    Thanks for that - I'll look it up in the 2600 thread

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