Midnight Fragfest

A simple sprite and animations editor that I wrote primarily for my own use.  It’s actually a fairly powerful tool but could take some getting used to as it’s interface is evolved from previous revisions, and very specific to how I use an editor.

Feature List:

• Onion Skinning
• quick controls to show previous and next frame
• allows picking an arbitrary image
• full scaling/positioning for the image (hold alt and scroll mouse wheel or click and drag middle mouse button)
• Chorded controls
• no swapping of tools required while drawing, all tools are combinations of mouse & keyboard actions
• Custom palettes, with fine grained color control
• save and load palettes from files, or rip a palette from any image
• Full system clipboard support
• Large undo/redo buffers, and a seperate buffer for every frame of the animation
• Single file projects
• the actual image data, animation data, and other metadata is all stored in a single compressed file, making it far easier to load
• unlimited number of animations and images per file
• Live preview of animations
• Fully customizable UI
• Multi-part animations editor (Alpha!)
• allows creating animation “states” that allow you create scripted animations

Controls Reference:

The controls were designed for myself so they might be a little tricky for anyone else at first, once you’re used to it it’s very fast and easy to use however. All controls are combinations of ctrl/alt/shift and the three mouse buttons + mouse wheel.

Mouse Wheel:

• Normal: Zoom drawing area
• Alt: Zoom onion skin

Left Mouse:

• Normal: Pencil Tool
• Shift: Line Tool
• Ctrl: Fill Tool
• Alt: Sweet Tool

Right Mouse:

• Normal: Eraser
• Shift: Color Picker
• Alt: Move drawing surface

Middle Mouse:

• Normal: Select Tool
• Alt: Move Onion Skin

All other commands are activated entirely from the keyboard and are listed under the “Edit” menu, along with their hotkeys, within the program.

Download:

• linux x86
• linux x86-64
• Mac (soon)
• Windows

All versions require Qt 4.8, the shared objects are packed in the tar.gz but I’d recommend using your system-wide libraries if possible (if you have the libs installed you can safely delete the ones i distributed).  You can download the full framework and source for Qt 4.8 directly from nokia’s main website http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/

Please post any bugs and feature requests here.