bocianu Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 (edited) The first reasonably stable and functional version of a new editor for Atari hardware sprites called SprEd has just been released. The editor runs in a web browser. Tested on Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Its interface is inspired by "Atari Player Editor" by playsoft, which was written in flash and today it's troublesome to run it. I also added some new features to my editor and added the ability to edit in "square pixel" mode, which I missed in APL. List of Current Features: - editing and animating tri-colour sprites (overlaped) - maximum sprite height 128 - maximum number of animation frames 256 - basic editing functions: move, H/V flip, vertical scaling, copy, paste - PAL/NTSC palettes - pixel aspect ratio selectable - keyboard shortcuts - loading *.apl, *.spr files - data export SprEd is able to export data for many popular programming languages and is able to save in native .spr format. It also reads playsoft editor files in *.apl format. I'm attaching some example graphics files in spr format. You can easily load them by dragging the *.spr file to the editor window. phone.sprbigslime.sprflob.sprbigwheel.sprbat.sprdropsplash.sprfire.sprmouse.sprportal.sprvalve.sprvial.spr List of keyboard shortcuts is located under the Help button - it's worth to have a look. Editor is located here: https://bocianu.gitlab.io/spred/ Feel free to try it out. If you have an idea for exporting to some more useful format - let me know, I will be happy to add the necessary template. Edited January 23, 2022 by bocianu screenshots updated to newer versions 31 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bit-Dude Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Nice contribution Bocianu!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Very useful, thank you very much! I tested some .apl and it loads them, apart one 52 pixel high. In fact, Playsoft made a special version of Atari Player Editor because for my The Lady game I used very tall sprites. It would be useful if you could export in FastBasic format: data Player0() byte = 20,28,127,127,62,127,127,127, data byte = 127,62,104,252,254,254,126,126, ...... data byte = 126,90,153,153,129,129,195,195 Perhaps BASIC data would be useful too: 10100 DATA 0,48,48,44,60,60,0,189 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Philsan said: Perhaps BASIC data would be useful too: 10100 DATA 0,48,48,44,60,60,0,189 and maybe MAC/65 too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 6 minutes ago, TGB1718 said: and maybe MAC/65 too please, give me an example, I'm not familiar with all assemblers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 MAC/65 and even Atari Assembler Editor have line numbers e.g. 100 .BYTE 12,13,14,15 or hex values 100 .BYTE $10,$20,$30 Would be useful to have the export function to allow the user to select the start line number and line increment 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibstov Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Awesome...I need to create a new game now 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 I coded some of your ideas and there is version 0.79. https://bocianu.gitlab.io/spred/ What's new: - load function filters spr and apl extensions by default (Tebe) - option to enable common palette for all frames (Vidol) - 3 new export formats : BASIC, fastBasic, MAC/65 (TGB1718, Philsan) - 2 new options for export : start line and numbering step 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelen Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Very, very nice! This is exactly what I need ? 6 hours ago, Gibstov said: Awesome...I need to create a new game now yes ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 1 hour ago, bocianu said: I coded some of your ideas and there is version 0.79. https://bocianu.gitlab.io/spred/ What's new: - load function filters spr and apl extensions by default (Tebe) - option to enable common palette for all frames (Vidol) - 3 new export formats : BASIC, fastBasic, MAC/65 (TGB1718, Philsan) - 2 new options for export : start line and numbering step That was fast, thanks very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidC Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 This is excellent! Thank you for sharing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 It's lovely. I would welcome option to switch to char mode/bitmap mode with width as multiplies of 4 and additional selectable color instead of OR color. It would also need 2 new export options...by byte columns and by byte rows. I know it is quite a request, but this would bring it to higher level as hw/sw sprite editor. An absolute awesomeness would be ability to combine sw sprite with pm overlay. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Thank you! I added SprEd in Basic programming part of Topic for newbies. I noticed that in fact not only I have one .apl 50 pixels high incompatible sprite but some 51 pixels high sprites too. Can I send them to you for conversion to SprEd format? Or is it possible to add compatibility? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 12 minutes ago, Philsan said: I noticed that in fact not only I have one .apl 50 pixels high incompatible sprite but some 51 pixels high sprites too. Can I send them to you for conversion to SprEd format? Or is it possible to add compatibility? Sure, send me those bigger sprites, I will check how to parse them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 @Philsan the standard apl format is limited to 48 bytes of height, everything above that is cuted by default. Please send me those files higher than 48. I will analyze them, and will try to patch SprEd to read them properly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Exactly, playsoft made a special version only for me. Therefore, my sprites are the only ones off standard. Perhaps it would be better not to add a non standard format to SprEd. They are not read by Recoil too. BTW, we should ask Piotr to add SprEd sprites compatibility to Recoil. I am sending you my sprites, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 2 minutes ago, Philsan said: BTW, we should ask Piotr to add SprEd sprites compatibility to Recoil. Thanks, good idea! But before I will fully specify the output format I think I will wait for couple of weeks. I started writing this tool a week ago, and it's not fully mature yet. Some features may appear in upcoming days, and output format may change a little bit. I also have some feature requests from atari.area forum. And some of them are quite interesting and possible to implement. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 (edited) @Philsan: thanks for the files. SprEd updated! Now it also reads extended apl 52 lines format. Edited January 24, 2022 by bocianu screenshot 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanti77 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Fajne @bocianu, takie narzędzie na pewno się przyda. Mi tu jak i w pierwowzorze brakuje obsługi dwóch pozostałych duszków i pocisków. Np. Gack'a rysowałem z 2 duszków + pociski (kolor czarny) i wtedy osobno musiałem rysować postać i osobno czapkę i nogi. W TLS bossów trzeba było rysować najpierw jedną połówkę, a później drugą. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 @bocianu I just noticed on the Export menu, you have to copy/paste the export into your application, not a problem if your using Altirra as it allows that, but other emulators don't, could you add a File/Save option in the Export function, save as text will allow merging the file into a program such as BASIC and MAC/65. btw, just been playing and this is probably the easiest sprite editor I've ever used, love it ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glurk Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Can you make this show color-clock size pixels, with the correct 4:3 aspect ratio? PMG pixels are not really square, so this utility seems to make everything look horizontally squashed, e.g., not quite as wide as it should be. Even if it's just as an option, the slightly wider rectangular pixels would be a huge improvement, IMO. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Great tool! Thank you. Could please add an option to use binary output for cc65 and "other assemblers"? This way shapes are identifiable and allow small tweaks. Example: ca65: .BYTE %00111001 .BYTE %00111000 .BYTE %00110000 .BYTE %00111000 .BYTE %00011100 .BYTE %00011110 .BYTE %00001111 .BYTE %00000111 cc65: BYTE TurretGraphics[] = { 0b00011000, 0b01111110, 0b01111110, 0b01111110, 0b11111111, 0b11111111, 0b11111111, 0b11111111, 0b11111111, 0b11111111, 0b11111111 }; 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Great tool ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 I took this lovely editor and modified it to Software sprite mode. Not yet available for public, because it is not yet fully working, but here is a screenshot: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelen Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) Very cool you've added that option, or made a dedicated tool for it! Edited January 27, 2022 by Thelen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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