johnnystarr Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Here's a clip of my most recent project. I wanted a sprite editor that was specifically for the VCS, handling 8-bit lines and TIA colors. My wife is designing all the art so I figured I would give her something web based. After a few days I've come up with this and I'm starting to wonder if this is worth making public. Your feedback is appreciated. http://youtu.be/pyDsh78tym8?hd=1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnystarr Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 BTW, I fully plan to be able to output to multiple formats. I will be adding an animation portion and the ability to collaborate on different sprites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaGtGruff Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Here's a clip of my most recent project. I wanted a sprite editor that was specifically for the VCS, handling 8-bit lines and TIA colors. My wife is designing all the art so I figured I would give her something web based. After a few days I've come up with this and I'm starting to wonder if this is worth making public. Your feedback is appreciated. http://youtu.be/pyDsh78tym8?hd=1 It looks nice! Good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Have you tried the Sprite Editor that Visual batari Basic has? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnystarr Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 @Random Terrain: No, I hadn't seen that before. Very cool indeed. I am interested in the sound editor on that link as well. Can't get myself to use BBASIC though. 6502 Assembly has been a general hobby of mine for the last few years on several systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thank you, johnnystarr, for making a VCS sprite editor that doesn't require Windows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Very nice! I like the 2600-centric tools. Looking forward to seeing more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnystarr Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thank you all for the nice comments. I am a bit torn on how far I want to take this. Part of me wants to host a site that allows full collaboration both private / public. Yet, the minimalistic part of me wants to keep it simple and local and put it up on GitHub for developers to take and customize. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thank you all for the nice comments. I am a bit torn on how far I want to take this. Part of me wants to host a site that allows full collaboration both private / public. Yet, the minimalistic part of me wants to keep it simple and local and put it up on GitHub for developers to take and customize. No reason it can't be both. License it as AGPL3 if you want to ensure you reap the benefits of any commercial forks, since there aren't a lot of web-based palette-aware pixel editors out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CannibalCat Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The gradient feature is awesome. Nice job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Thank you all for the nice comments. I am a bit torn on how far I want to take this. Part of me wants to host a site that allows full collaboration both private / public. Yet, the minimalistic part of me wants to keep it simple and local and put it up on GitHub for developers to take and customize. Did you ever do more with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 (edited) https://alienbill.com/2600/playerpalnext.html is a good starting point in terms of features. Plus it features extra crappy UI so there's lots of room for improvement But it has multiple frames and generation of asm and bB code. Edited March 12, 2019 by kisrael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 I bet somebody could adapt this JavaScript sprite editor for the Commodore 64 so it will be able to make Atari 2600 sprites:vintageisthenewold.com/new-online-sprite-editor-for-the-commodore-64/ Combine some of the features found here such as single/double/quad player width and changeable kernel lines: alienbill.com/2600/playerpalnext.html Related post for batari Basic users: atariage.com/forums/topic/287262-visual-studio-code-extension-for-batari-basic/?p=4222827 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoLand Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 For a simple, web-based VCS sprite editor in JavaScript see https://www.masswerk.at/rc2018/04/TinySpriteEditor/. The "Tiny 8-Bit Sprite Editor" generates assembler code (for copy and paste) on the fly and accepts common assembler code as input, both in normal and in reversed byte order. Else, there are just a few basic commands, like draw/paint, move pixels, append lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 FWIW the most oddest thing to get right is the per-scanline colors - "johnnystarr"'s did a good job of it, some of the others don't have a utility to make it easy to say "you're probably stuck with one color per line" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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