Tuesday, September 6, 2011

ASEPRITE 0.9 Released

Really good news for today: ASEPRITE 0.9 is released! Not with all the features that we want it, but it is still a lot better than the previous version. The big changes are:
  • Support to resize/maximize the windows (finally!!)
  • New Import/Export sprite sheets functions
  • Improved RGB and HSV sliders (like normal drawing programs!)
Also there are a lot of bug fixes and minor changes. Enjoy it!

Download | Release notes

25 comments:

Oleg said...

I have tried a lot of different pixel art tools before and I guess ASEPRITE is the best for now! All necessary features, wonderful palette and tools. I just love it! Thank you guys!
What a pity - there is no unicode and I don't see my russian folder names - only english.

Big J said...

Great, thanks! Wonder if there is a Mac build for this version available too??

Oleg said...

Hello there. Here is a default font with russian letters I've made for russian users of ASEPRITE. Just replace if in data\skins\default directori of ASEPRITE
http://retro47.narod.ru/font.png

Joshua Dolan said...

This is an awesome tool that I am very thankful to have found. (And through me a couple other friends are happy to have it too!)

Waiting to see a Mac build of 0.9.

Thank you!

David Capello said...

Thank you people for your words!

Thanks to Oleg for the Russian fonts, I've added a "Unicode support" feature (please "star it").

About Mac OS X build, thanks to Jamaal Sawyer it is already available

Oleg said...

Why the lower zoom level is 200%? How can I see a full picture at 100% percent. It seems that all the program interface have double magnification.

David Capello said...

Hi Oleg, yes, everything in ASEPRITE interface is x2 by design.

If you want to edit images with the full screen resolution, you've a workarround:
1) Close aseprite
2) Open aseprite.ini file
3) Find ScreenScale = 2
4) Replace with ScreenScale = 1
5) Save, close the file, and run aseprite again

Good luck!

Oleg said...

Thanx a lot, David! It helped.

Oleg said...

David, why when some time passes (about an hour) after las launch of aseprite it loaded again in double size view? I must to open aseprite.ini and edit it every time before launching aseprite. ScreenScale reset to default value of 2. Here is my first attempt of using aseprite:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/65797.htm

jice said...

Great program ! Everything is really intuitive. Love it. Keep up the good work !

Jobert said...

I thought the development of ASEPRITE has ended because its been a long time I haven't seen an update until I found this update. I'm happy that most of those stupid crashing bugs are gone! :D

I should note some bugs I've found in this version:

1. CTRL + Drag on selection doesn't work like in 0.8.2.

2. Scrolling vertically sometimes bugs out when moving the mouse really slowly in certain window sizes.

dos said...

I love the program, but one thing bugs me. The custom cursor is very cute, but it lags on slower computers. I would love if there were an option to turn it off.

David Capello said...

Jobert wrote:
> CTRL + Drag on selection doesn't work like in 0.8.2.

That's true! I'll fix this bug for the next update.

> Scrolling vertically sometimes bugs out when moving the mouse really slowly in certain window sizes.

What OS you're using?

David Capello said...

Dos wrote:
> The custom cursor is very cute, but it
> lags on slower computers. I would love
> if there were an option to turn it off.

Well, it isn't a problem of the custom cursor really, it is a bigger problem (Allegro library, polling instead of event-driven, double-buffering). I'll be working on this for ASEPRITE 1.0 or 1.1 maybe.

Dave Swan said...

Hi, forgive me if it's there and I can't figure out how to use it but back in the day I've done some Mega Drive games and we all used to use Danimate in the business, the Best thing it did, the one function I miss in all Sprite progammes is the ability to, say I put a line done on Frame 1 without unclicking, then moving to frame 2, unclicking and laying the line or stroke on frame 2, this allowed you to animate very quickly by drawing a line over say a leg in the next position you want it and flicking to the next frame ( the desired fame ) to stamp it down.

David Capello said...

Hi Dave, would you like to fill a feature request for that? (http://goo.gl/IIh8l) It seems a useful feature but I would like to know the exact steps/expected-behavior: when mouse button is pressed, when the user should move the mouse, released the button, how he moves to other frame (e.g. using left/right keys), feedback given to the user, etc.

Jobert said...

@David Capello:
I'm using Windows XP SP2.

The vertical scrolling bug will more likely occur when the window is maximized in 1024x768 screen resolution.

dotmick said...

Hi !

I've downloaded the 0.9 mac version, but when I open the .app file, it crashes suddenly :/

Any thoughts ?

Thanks !

Anonymous said...

Nice update. would be great if you could click, then hold shift and click on another spot and have a straight line be drawn between the two clicks. Also: fill tool?

Anonymous said...

I just got a mac and was looking forward to using ASE. but OSX 10.7.2 says:

"There may be a problem with this disk image. Are you sure you want to open it? Opening this disk image may make your computer less secure or cause other problems." with the choices "Open" and "Don't Open", when I try to run aseprite-0.9.dmg

It would be great if someone could take a look at it, thanks!

shash7 said...

I love the ui. Wayyy better than photoshop.
Way to go people.

David Capello said...

About the Mac OS X version, please you can try the new dmg package.

Levi said...

I'm using it on my tablet-pc. Having some difficulty, especially on zooming. Putting a zoom-slider for tablet users would be nice. Anyway, great work! Some of the unique tools (blur and jumble) are awesome! You should also put in a pixel-gradient fill (like in ol' pictor).

Anonymous said...

Uh-oh, this is bad. Found out that Aseprite 0.9 uses 100% (50% on dual core) of processor usage.

David Capello said...

Levi: I'll try to add a slider for zooming. The current interface is not though for tablets, so maybe you will get other annoyances.

Anonymous: About the 100% CPU, is a known issue.