Aseprite news & patch notes

Hi Asepriters! Today we're releasing a patch with several bug fixes, and a little new v1.3.18-beta2 with some changes about how layer groups are presented in the timeline:

What's new in Aseprite v1.3.18-beta2

• Better presentation of Layer Groups in Timeline #5651 #5758

• Fixed hidden layers affect z-index #5681

• New -power-of-two-size CLI parameter to create sprite sheets with a power of two size #2289

• Fixed bug opening .aseprite-extension from Windows File Explorer #5744

• Fixed right-click on multi-line text editor (e.g. user data field)

• Avoid confusing Eyedropper behavior when there is no Reference Layer available #5685

• Lua API:

  • New plugin API to add custom file formats when loading/saving sprites #4950 #5174

  • Improved Dialog labels and buddy enabled handling #5117 #5554

  • Added support for eyedropper tool in app.useTool()

What's new in Aseprite v1.3.17.1

• Fixed Edit > Insert Text which doesn't paste text on viewport's center #5615

• Allow installing extensions by dropping them into the preferences dialog #5697

• Fixed tips for thin filled ellipses (thanks to @emmachase)

• Fixed underscore and strike-sthrough not shifted with layer's name #5736 (thanks to @sliva0)

• Fixed color picker selecting below alpha bar #2006 (thanks to @luke-henry-04)

• Fixed selection tool performance in tilemap layers in 'Tiles' mode #5760

• Fixed crash when painting in an empty tilemap in manual mode #5717

• Fixed bug showing invalid zoom level in status bar #5545 (thanks to @Darth712)

• Release mouse capture after switching to other app with Alt+Tab #325 #5601 #5691

• Fixed the Palette unlock icon (thanks to @thkwznk)

• Added some missing translation strings for the Advanced Mode dialog #5704

• macOS: Inactive window doesn't pass events to window below #4561 #4835

• Linux: Don't change process name to "main"

• .aseprite decoder/encoder:

  • Fixed crash decoding invalid external file types

  • Fixed stack overflow decoding multiple level of properties

• Lua API:

  • Update API version to 40

  • Fixed moving active cel to 0,0 when drawing for some specific scripts #5679

  • Added Sprite.hasAssociatedFile property #5721

Hi asepriters! Yesterday we’ve released Aseprite v1.3.17. It includes all features introduced in previous v1.3.17-betas and some bug fixes. On the other hand, in the Steam beta channel you’ll find Aseprite v1.3.18-beta1 with some extra features.

What’s new in Aseprite v1.3.18-beta1

What’s new in Aseprite v1.3.17

• New options to extend the “Keep closed sprite on memory” time #5603

• Fixed square brush rotation direction #5597

• Fixed auto focusing layer name when pressing F2 to rename the layer #5609

• Fixed regression painting selected text in text input fields #5628 #5643

• Fixed a crash when doing ‘Export As’ for animation and the target file is read only #5635 (thanks to @nelson-steve)

• Fixed crash copying floating image when Tiled Mode is enabled #5602

• +Changes from v1.3.17-beta2

• Lua API:

  • Update API version to 39

  • Fixed security issue where a script could gain already given access from other script

Hi asepriters! Today we’re releasing Aseprite v1.3.16 as the new stable version. It includes all the new features from the previous v1.3.16-betas and a lot of bug fixes. On the other hand, in the Steam beta channel you’ll find the new Aseprite v1.3.17-beta1 with new features 🗝️

What’s new in Aseprite v1.3.17-beta1

You can change the corner radius in real-time pressing the C key:

Moving the selection in Tiled Mode now works correctly #1457

Now mouse buttons (even X1 / X2) can be associated to commands / tools / drag values #598 #1793

Other changes that you can find in the release notes:

• Avoid confusing UX creating new keyframes for slices #5125 #2284

• Avoid confusion with Slice selection search field #5484 t/27705

• Don’t modify the sprite when we just click/select slices #5578

• Lua API:

  • Added Dialog onresize event #4736 #5354

  • Fixed Image:drawSprite() call when the user is drawing #3916

What’s new in Aseprite v1.3.16

• Added possibility to search commands by its keyboard shortcut #5465 (thanks to @AlexJauregui02)

• Added key bindable “Solo Layer” command #5291 #5527

• Windows: New option to associate any kind of file with the running instance of Aseprite + customize how to see thumbnails on File Explorer #2606

• Linux: Added a movement threshold when detecting double clicks in X11 (thanks to @Cammymoop)

• Fixed selection in text fields with special fonts #5520

• Fixed HSL+ and HSV+ filters with mask color #5548

• Fixed UI bug in Keyboard Shortcuts with the “Add” button in other languages #5523

• Fixed bug starting to drag the color palette after picking a new ink #5547 / t/27779

• Fixed bug selecting a recent/pinned folder to export with relative paths #5388

• Fixed crash due big font sizes #5535

• Fixed dragged tabs lingering when executing commands #5496

• Fixed several issues with multiple screens laf#164

• Fixed crash using Select Used/Unused Colors when there is a pixel out of bounds #5096

• Fixed crash with Lasso tool + pixel perfect + new selection #5571

• Lua API:

  • Update API version to 38

  • New Behavior: Property changes outside a transaction don’t generate undo steps #4568

  • New Behavior: Layer flag changes inside a transaction generate undo steps #2991

  • Avoid clicking an invalid button after a new window is displayed #4757

  • Don’t reset dialog bounds after Dialog:show{autoscrollbars} when dialog.bounds were set before #4758

  • Allow mouse wheel scrolling in dialogs with autoscrollbars option #5116

  • Fixed widgets interactivity using bounds and autoscrollbars in Dialog:show{} #5516

  • Fixed dialog with scrollbar wrong size in a particular case #5396 #5481

  • Fixed crash using a label field in Dialog:endtags{} #5114

  • Fixed disabled checkbox style change after Dialog:combobox() change #4988

  • Fixed crash setting properties with its same value #5519

  • Added Sprite.isValid #5017

  • Fixed console re-centering #5349 #5562

  • Fixed calling filters inside the same app.transaction() with ui=true #5572

  • Don’t show progress bar for filters when running with ui=false #5537

Hi pixel lovers! Today we've released Aseprite v1.3.15.3 including some fixes and v1.3.16-beta1 with a few nice features. Remember, beta versions are available only through Steam.

What's new

Aseprite v1.3.16.beta1 (art by DrSmey)

• Added "Run Command" window (press Ctrl+ Space to try it!) #5393 featuring:

  • Aseprite's command search

  • Input of math expressions

  • Inline Lua script evaluation

• Added UI customization by making all elements on screen dockable/movable/resizable #518 #3485

• Lua API:

  • Added 'ui' parameter to all commands for enabling/disabling user interaction through their dialogs #3025

Aseprite v1.3.15.3

• Fix UI theme colors to match theme color space commit c444b56

• Context matching and prioritization using keyboard shortcuts #5390

• Fixed Color Management issues (t/15751), (t/21945)

• Lua API:

  • \ Update scripting API version to 36

  • \ Enclose key names for plugin preferences with \ when it's required #5412

Check the official announcement for more information.

Hello everyone! Today we’ve released Aseprite v1.3.15.2 with several bug fixes and little new handy features. If you are using v1.3.15 or v1.3.15.1, sorry for the inconvenience, but it might be a good idea to update to the latest v1.3.15.2 version:

What’s new

New possibility to duplicate slices (or Edit > Copy & Paste) t/21966 #4466

Added “Show hidden” option to file selector #3079

Added option to stroke text #5271

New options to reconfigure keys to apply/discard the tranformation #5102

Check the official announcement for more information.

Hi asepriters! Yesterday we've released a new update ːsteamthisː ...and today a fix for that update ːsteamsadː The new Aseprite v1.3.14.2 is available right now (with fixes for the default font in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translations). We've finally promoted the beta version to stable. There were some changes in the text rendering system as now we are using DirectWrite (Windows) and CoreText (macOS).

This version include some new features like pinning palettes:

A way to change default Timeline options:

This version includes features available from the latest betas like:

The new interactive Text tool (you can still use the old Edit > Insert Text menu option)

The diagonal symmetry:

Resizing slices (even 9-slices) with pixels:

You can go back to the previous versions from the Betas section in the Aseprite properties on Steam:

What’s new

• New interactive Text tool with T key #28 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11891144/6114f78145ab67de59e7870f52b03ac81de10083.gif
• New diagonal symmetry #1171 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11891144/018fee40787473d8f811b4a15403fd83c4ef2c43.gif
• New drop files on timeline to import files as layers/frames/cels, works on Windows and macOS #131 #4636 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11891144/12e4c0708aaceda76fa5597d692418e5d9533c45.gif
• Added “Transform” checkbox to move slices with its content #4533 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11891144/a82485f9aab8749b1b41833510a2c62e328a502d.gif
• Experimental: Compose layer groups separately from all other layers #3225 (thanks to @belchiorg and @gui-marc)
  • Enable this from Edit > Preferences > Experimental > Compose groups separately
• Group buttons in the toolbar when the window is too small #4708
• Duplicate tilemaps correctly when Sprite > Duplicate #4759
• Replaced jpeglib with libjpeg-turbo to load/save JPEG files
• Better text rendering using Skia (DirectWrite on Windows, Core Text on macOS) #4362
• Lua API:
  • Added GraphicsContext for images: Image.context property #4330
  • Added ui/flatten/filename parameters to app.command.DuplicateSprite command #4755

• Fixed crash dropping files on timeline in certain cases #4801
• Fixed crash clicking the canvas when multiple layers/frames were selected in the timeline and the Edit > Preferences > Timeline > Keep Selection option was enabled #4809
• Fixed some theme related problems with the font popup #3851 #4815
• Windows: Minimize crashes related to buggy WinTab drivers #3358

• Published a couple of HD icons
• Added support for JPEG image orientation adjustment from EXIF metadata #2525
• Disable Brush Preview in Preview window by default #4721 (thanks to @S4HRKBOY), can be re-enabled from View > Preview > Brush Preview
• Snap cels to grid on moving cel action #4027
• Fixed slice tool when we are in tiles mode #4306
• Fixed bug copying/moving cels with z-index #4779
• Fixed issues with windows visibility when changing between “Home” tab and sprites #4546 #4789
• Fixed Duplicate Sprite/Layer didn’t duplicate z-indexes #4665
• Fixed mouse issues making hard to resize floating windows #4240
• Fixed UI issue scaling brush type icons #4386
• Fixed crash clicking “Hide Other Layers” when there is no preview window #4768
• Lua API:
  • Update API version to 30
  • Added app.editor.zoom/scroll properties #4722
  • New option (Dialog:show{ hand=true }) to enable Hand tool in the active editor with a modal dialog (thanks to @lampysprites)

• Fixed window flickering using “Disable Snap to Grid” button t/23912 #4805
• Lua: Fixed broken Dialog:show{ bounds=Rectangle } API t/23917

• New Hungarian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Thai, and Ukrainian translations, thanks to the help of several contributors
• Improved performance in "Recover Files" tab #4610
• New "Reset" page in Edit > Preferences #4432
• New "Reset Symmetry to View Center" option t/19185 #4638 (thanks to @S4HRKBOY)
• New criterias to match similar RGB colors with color palette entries t/9682 #2787
• Added "Don't show this alert again" when saving WebP files #4658
• Fixed "Merge Down" command when the merged cels have a special z-index t/22106 #4468
• Fixed bug where we weren't able to uninstall third party extensions #4622
• Fixed transparent color bugs converting between RGB <-> Indexed conversion #4370 #4438
• Fixed moving multiple tilemap layers at the same time #3144
• Fixed right click action with shading ink is selected #4520
• Fixed bug where the first mouse click after a Ctrl+Z was ignored if we had Ctrl key configured to drag the "Brush Size" t/22112 #4484
• Fixed duplicate items in keyboard shortcuts list #4387
• CLI: Fixed exporting Sprite Sheet with group names #4456
• Lua API:
  • New app.fgTile/bgTile properties to get/set the foreground/background tile #4403
  • Added Site.tilemapMode property
  • Added x and y params to app.command.Paste()
  • Fixed app.command.Cut/Paste in -batch mode #4354
  • Fixed app.command.Cancel() command when used from scripts
  • Fixed default color/bgColor params in app.useTool()

What's new

Translations

What’s new

• Dark theme
• Skew transformation
• Text fields for the transformation
• Resize tags dragging borders
• Repeat field for tags
• Pick colors from the desktop
• Z-index to re-order layers in specific frames
• New mouse/pen stabilizer
• Global user data to sprites
• Ctrl+Shift+Drag mouse Change brush size + drag values customization from Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Drag Value
• Shift+F7: Hide other layers on Preview window
• Space+X/Space+H (flip horizontally), Space+Y/Space+V (flip vertically), Space+D (flip diagonally), Space+R (rotate): Flip/rotate custom brushes or tiles
• New scripting capabilities like the canvas widget and tabs

• Fixed regression showing brush & selection preview

• Added new z-index property to cels
• Enable panning and zooming for filter window
• Now F2 can rename a layer if a range of frames is not selected
• Change all selected cel properties when we select frames/layers
• Added warning when loading unsupported property type and mark the file as read-only
• Fixed webp export to export one tag correctly instead of all frames
• Improved message error when loading a sequence of png files whose color modes don’t match
• Export Sprite Sheet: Now “Ignore Empty” option works for tilesets too
• Full screen preview hides the preview window if needed

• Play subtags + repeats by default. Now playback options are accessible through Frame > Playback submenu
• Added pixel-art Cyrillic script and Maltenese Unicode chars
• Added ability to press a mnemonic key (e.g. Y or N) without modifiers in alerts
• Added frame duration warnings saving animated GIF files
• Allow recovering sessions from previous Aseprite versions
• Fixed regression pasting images outside the canvas limits
• Fixed rotation inaccuracy with 90°, 180° or 270° degrees
• Fixed 8 Connected Fill escapes grid with "Stop At Grid" checked
• Now New Palette from Sprite creates colors when alpha is less than 16
• Removed the marching ants effect from Timeline after paste
• Fixed avoid changing grid settings from Edit > Preferences if they aren't modified
• Fixed grid misalignment when zooming out
• Fixed a rendering bug using Loop through tag frames option in Onion Skin
• Fixed crash right-clicking play button if the preview window is hidden
• CLI: Fixed bug saving tags in file sequences using -save-as "{tag}_1.png"
• Lua: New Plugin:newMenuGroup() and Plugin:newMenuSeparator() to organize plugin submenus
• Lua: Added KeyEvent.repeatCount
• Lua: New opacity/blend mode parameters in Image:drawImage()
• Lua: More changes
• Several other crash fixes and minor UI issues

• Prefer native file dialog by default on Windows & macOS
  • macOS: Added a QuickLook plugin to generate thumbnails and previews
  • macOS: Fixed shortcuts for Edit actions when the native file dialog is displayed
  • You can switch back to the Aseprite file dialog unchecking the Edit > Preferences > Experimental > Use native file dialog option
• Disabled multiple UI windows by default
  • You can re-enable it from Edit > Preferences > General > User Interface or Edit > Preferences > Experimental > UI with multiple windows
• Added support to load/save QOI files
• New “Copy Path” option right-clicking a tab
• New Repeat field to animation tags
  • Added option to play/preview with subtags & repetitions
• Show saved undo state in Edit > Undo History window
• CLI: Added support to save multiple files with --save-as
• New tagname format (--tagname-format) to export JSON data
• Added several missing strings to translate the UI to other languages
• Optimized save operation on files with several/huge tilesets
• macOS: Fixed memory leak in the regular usage of the program
• Fixed general look of the Dynamics popup + added more possibilities to customize themes
• Fixed normal color wheel
• Fixed incorrect BMP file size set during save command
• Fixed generation of non-visible colors using “New Palette from Sprite”
• Avoid color reindexing when duplicate colors in GIF file
• Fixed uninstalling/updating extensions with subdirectories
• Fixed bug where Advanced Mode disabled the Tilemap tool
• Fixed bug when exporting from a sprite with layers that have the same name
• Fixed bug where the FG color changes to the palette entry zero when the eyedropper picks a pixel of mask color
• Fixed spray tool in Indexed mode not handling masked color as expected
• Keep/restore the timeline position for each sprite
• Fixed {duration} field for filename format
• Fixed update Preview Window after pasting Frame
• Lua: New API objects like Dialog:canvas(), GraphicsContext, app.theme, and Timer
• Lua: New API to save user & extension properties into objects

• Windows: Include aseprite-thumbnailer on Aseprite installer by default
• Windows: Added new icon for main window when Windows DPI=150%
• Windows: Fixed possible crashes at exit if some events are still queued when we close the app
• macOS: New Universal binary (including Intel and M1 code in the same .app bundle)
• macOS: Fixed glitch moving mouse
• Linux: Added support to drag-and-drop files from the File Manager to Aseprite
• Lua: Fixed error iterating layers named with numbers
• Lua: Fixed clipping when drawing a cel image into other image
• Lua: Added filenamechange event to Sprite.events
• Lua: Dialog:modify() supports combobox options
• Added automatic crash reporting on Windows & macOS if the user wants to share them

• Fixed Shift+N to add new layers in the correct place
• Linux: Fixed several bugs with some Window Managers
• Lua: Fixed Dialog.bounds values when a dialog is closed on multiple windows UI

• New Tilemap layers editor
• New dark theme
• Added skew to selection
• Added text fields for the transformation
• Added global user data to sprites
• Added support to resize tags with drag & drop
• Added support to pick colors from the desktop
• Added F11 (⇧⌘F on macOS) to toggle full screen mode
• Added HSL palette gradients
• Added support to move the Preview window outside the main window
• Window resizing in real-time
• Rewritten GIF encoder/decoder

• Fixed Shift+Rectangular Marquee doesn't start Square Aspect
• Fixed reference layers cannot be moved/resized
• Fixed "Simple Crosshair" cursor when switching to Eraser tool

• Added option to save palette presets easily
• Fixed crash copying and pasting images from GameMaker 2 to Aseprite
• Fixed problem with Error Console when the UI Screen Scaling is changed
• Fixed painting with symmetry and dynamics
• Fixed duplicate sprite: now it duplicates slices
• Now we can hold tool modifiers before start drawing
• Fixed some bugs pressing Ctrl+Z while we are dragging a cel with the Move tool
• Fixed several bugs modifying non-selected cels
• Fixed bugs modifying the timeline selection when it's hidden
• Clicking current cel with Move Tool will deselect the timeline
• Fixed long standing bug where Marquee Rectangle, Lasso, etc. weren't showing the selection feedback
• Added option to disable the "open sequence of static files as an animation" dialog
• Lua: Added Sprite.pixelRatio
• Lua: Added app.fs.makeDirectory, app.fs.makeAllDirectories, useful for export-aseprite-file script
• Lua: Added app.command.ImportSpriteSheet()

• Fixed copying images from Firefox (red/blue channels swapped)
• Fixed CLI export of groups metadata when a layer group is collapsed

• Windows: Fixed copy & paste of 32-bpp images with alpha channel from/to other programs
• macOS: Probable fix to black rectangles in some cases updating the display
• Fixed problem starting playing animation on Preview window automatically
• Fixed "Replace current pallete" option

• Added more options for brush preview
• Added option to rescan the scripts folder (reloading File > Scripts menu)
• Support to save .bmp files with 1bpp and 4bpp
• Fixed cycling through palette indexes when Edit Mode is on
• Fixed Preview playback of current tag when new frames are added
• Fixed right and bottom auto cel guides when Ctrl (Command) key is pressed
• Windows: Fixed some crashes getting information from buggy Wintab drivers
• CLI: Fixed opening sequences of images several times from CLI
• Lua: Changed ColorSpace{ sRGB=true } and Dialog:newrow{ always=true }
• Lua: Fixed Dialog onclose event, now it's called when we close the app and the dialog is still opened
• Lua: Fixed crash undoing Sprite:newCel() in background layer
• Lua: Added ui and bounds parameters to app.command.CanvasSize
• Lua: Fixed app.command.SetInkType to change ink type in customized ways (e.g. cycle them)
• Fixed crash modifying cel opacity after a cel is deleted
• Fixed crash clicking multiple times the same tab to close it without moving the mouse

• Added MSX1/MSX2 color palettes
• Fixed new bug with timeline separator when its position is limited
• Edit > Insert Text now doesn’t ignores the transparent color in indexed mode
• Fixed crash using Selection:deselect() when there is no selection
• Fixed some crashes generating thumbnails in the file selector in some special cases

• Fixed preview brush size when dynamics is enabled
• Now we can take & share screenshots with F12 when Steam is running
• New “Swap Checkerboard Background Colors” command
• Added Minecraft color palette
• Fixed crash related to handling multiple documents, the timeline, and undo/redo
• Fixed memory leak drawing text with Unicode chars
• Fixed --list-layers including all groups/layers in meta data when --split-layers is used
• Fixed some situations where locking a layer doesn’t lock the layer
• Fixed slow performance with Magic Wand and Intersection mode

• Added pen pressure sensitivity and dynamic parameters on Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Added support to detect eraser tip on Linux
• Added addition mode back for Hue/Saturation filter
• New possibility to create extensions with scripts
• Possibility to scroll menus that are off the screen
• Now “Auto Select Layer” can be disabled even when we use the Ctrl/Command key shortcut
• Save “Export File” dialog position on preferences
• Fixed regression with canvas border in the sprite editor
• Fixed loading of some particular TGA files (multiple scanlines compressed, invalid alpha information, etc.)
• Support to save compressed TGA files (and with 16/24/32 bpp)
• Added Tag.color property
• Added an option to “Fit to Screen” automatically for new/open files

• Added possibility to select multiple tiles with double-click + dragging mouse
• Fixed custom brushes + tiled mode
• Added app.fs object in Lua API
• Added Dialog{ title="text", onclose=function } constructor
• Added Dialog:shades{} widget
• Added Image:saveAs{ filename, palette } function
• Now we can use full paths in the file selector
• Fixed Shift+Enter keyboard shortcut
• Fixed bug zooming when we are drawing
• Fixed pasting text on empty cel
• Fixed Select > Color Range using colors with alpha < 255
• Fixed crash exporting sprite sheets to .gif or .jpg formats
• Fixed Palette:setColor() when alpha colors are specified
• Fixed several bugs related to crash reports (thanks to all users reporting crashes!), the CLI, exporting sprite sheets, etc.

• Added custom brushes + inks: custom brush with lock alpha mode (#2133), with eraser (#1408), with shading (#1615)
• Now links are preserved when copying cels between layers (Steam thread)
• Save grid bounds inside .aseprite files (#688)
• Sprite sheet changes:
  • File > Export Sprite Sheet UI redesigned
  • File > Export Sprite Sheet includes the Packed sprite sheet type (like -sheet-pack), new “Split Layers/Tags” options (like -split-layers/-split-tags)
  • Include empty frames in JSON data when -ignore-empty is not specified (#2116)
  • Removed duplicate frames/images output when -sheet packed is used (#1316)
  • -sheet-type rows/columns can output one row/column for each layer/tag (-split-layers/-split-tags).
  • Added -merge-duplicates to render just one frame in the output for linked cels as separated frames (this was added to replicate the old behavior, where linked cels where merged even for basic sprite sheets where one frame output is expected in the sprite sheet).
• Added option to reset the symmetry lines to the center of the sprite (#2195)
• Fixed loading/saving .png files with special user data chunks (#2153)
• Fixed progress bar when we apply filters (#2152)
• Fixed crash merging visible layers when all layers are hidden (bug report)
• Fixed other bugs and crashes: #1582, #2156, #2160, #2192

• Added new Edit > Paste Special options to paste the clipboard content into a new sprite or layer:
  • Edit > Paste Special > Paste As New Sprite
  • Edit > Paste Special > Paste As New Layer (Ctrl+Shift+V)
  • Edit > Paste Special > Paste As New Reference Layer
• Added Layer > New… > New Layer Via Copy/Cut options to convert the selection into a new layer (Ctrl+J/Ctrl+Shift+J)
• Fixed crashes using Reference Layer or Import Sprite Sheet (reported via email with several .dmp files, and Steam forum, etc.)
• macOS: Fixed showing file name extension on native file selector
• macOS: Fixed Command+Z/X/C/V/A keyboard shortcuts on native file selector