A downloadable tool

WELCOME

Welcome to Spedit 4.0, free and open source pixel-art editor and Sprite Library Manager for Windows/Linux (maybe MacOS X too - can't test it because i haven't Mac)

INTRODUCTION

Program written with CodeTyphon IDE/Free Pascal Compiler. Simple but (maybe) powerful Sprite Editor and local sprite library for pixel-art based 2D games.

WORK PROGRESS

Still development, new features will be added when i have enought time and motivation. You can sponsor me throught https://www.buymeacoffee.com/iso4free if You wanna get some features done faster.

SHORT DOCUMENTATION

For now, use arrow keys for moving on-grid cursor, Space and Enter keys to draw use selected colors (primary and secondary), Del key to clear pixel.

Hold Ctrl and use mouse scroll up/down to scale grid size.

Hold Alt and use mouse scroll to change background checkers size.

Hold mouse scroll to drag drawable area.

For show/hide preview window press F7 or check menu 'View>Tool panels>Preview'

Click to 'Preview' image for export in PNG file format.

For show referense image check menu 'View>Tool panels>Referense'.

Click to 'Referense' window to open any image used as reference.

You can select primary and secondary colors click on any color in palette with left (primary) or right (secondary) mouse buttons.

Also You can select any color just clickin' on primary or secondary colors with left button or set it to transparent clickin' by right mouse button.

To swap colors, press X key or click on middle button (with red and green circled arrows) between primary and secondary colors.

To manage palette, You can import it from palette file in HEX format (more formats will be added in future) or import from image file. For now, palette limited 256 indexed colors only, but in future this limits may be cancelled.

To reset palette to default colors just use menu 'Palette>Reset palette'.

You can export palette in HEX format to use it for any purpose.

THE FUTURE

In future will be avaliable:

mouse drawing using different draw tools
multi-frames and multi-layers for drawing
shift and rotate layers and frames
animations composer from any frames
import other image files and copy parts from it to own image
frame resize
export in own JSON file format
manage local sprite library with some useful search by hashtags
other features that will be needed
interface localization to other languages

TROUBLESHOOTING

In Windows some troubles with terminal output. Temporarily added APPTYPE console.
In Windows keys won't work. Will be fixed soon.

COPYRIGHT

This program may be used freely, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Spedit License Agreement for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V.3 with this program; see the file LICENSE. If not, visit the Spedit home page.

Share and enjoy!

Vadim Vitomsky iso4free@gmail.com

Feel free to contact me if you have commercial compression requirements or interesting job offers.

HISTORY

In early 2000 when I just done my first steps in programming with Turbo Pascal i want to make games. For this time I did haven't acces to Internet, I even haven't PC! But I wanted to become a professional programmer and continued to study programming from a book.

All games use some images and I decide make my own image editor at first just 'for fun' and programming practice. First, I thought about what functionality I could implement based on the knowledge I had at the time. After that, I came up with the concept of a graphical user interface, which I drew schematically in a regular notebook and in the same notebook I began to write the code with a pen for the implementation of individual fragments of the future editor. Since the images of characters in games are called sprites, the name of the editor was determined as Sprite Editor or Spedit. According to his capabilities, he could very little - edit a fragment of the main image pixel by pixel in an enlarged form. Only 16 colors were used in the palette. A custom file format was used to store the sprites. When starting, you had to enter the name of the file to be edited in the command line, after that a splash screen appeared with the name of the program on the background of the starry sky. After pressing any key, the user interface appeared. It was ugly and useless but working! For now, unfortunately, source code was lost.

Nex version was made a year after. Differense with previous version was PCX file format support. It was still useless. Sources and executable can be found in 'archive/spedit 2.0' directory.

Two years later I tried to port SPEDit from Turbo Pascal to Free Pascal Compiler and compile for Windows. There was some changes in UI and support 256 colors palette but no mouse support. Interface language was changed from Russian to English. So it still was useless. Sources also avaliasble in the 'archive/spedit 3.0' directory.