Software To Draw My Sprites With?


second exodous

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I came across GraphicsGale and was wondering if there were any other programs like this that would run on other operating systems. I use Linux on my pc notebook and have an ibook for itunes(got it before itunes ran on windows). I could wine it, but if there is a program that runs native I would rather use that. I guess I could use gimp, but GrapicsGale has some pretty neat features just for sprites.

Thanx,
Stan
 
second exodous posted on Sep 28 2005 at 04:34 AM said:
I came across GraphicsGale and was wondering if there were any other programs like this that would run on other operating systems.  I use Linux on my pc notebook and have an ibook for itunes(got it before itunes ran on windows).  I could wine it, but if there is a program that runs native I would rather use that.  I guess I could use gimp, but GrapicsGale has some pretty neat features just for sprites.

Thanx,
Stan

Try Cosmigo Pro-motion too. It is alot like the old D-paint from the Amiga only better. I know it works on windows, not sure about the other OSs.

Havent tried graphicsgale. I will look into it it looks interesting.
 
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Graphics Gale is free, whereas Pro-Motion is only available as a crippled commmercial demo. Also, I don't like Pro-Motion much. It looks good on the screenshots, but after trying the demo I still prefer Gale.

As for the initial question: Sorry, I don't know any Linux pixeling program. I also didn't find anything via Google, so it's either GIMP or Gale (via WINE, if possible).
 
Dryer Lint posted on Sep 28 2005 at 08:30 PM said:
As for the initial question: Sorry, I don't know any Linux pixeling program. I also didn't find anything via Google, so it's either GIMP or Gale (via WINE, if possible).
You could try Pixel. It runs on Windows, Linux, MacOSX, BeOS, Zeta, QNX, MorphOS, Solaris, eComStation and even old plain DOS, for both x86 and PowerPC architectures. It is in beta at the moment, but a final release is due within a month or so. It is $32 to purchase now, or $79 after the release. I haven't tried it myself yet, but a computer magazine review placed it ahead of GIMP.
 
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abigsmurf posted on Sep 28 2005 at 08:24 AM said:
does the GIMP still have a horrible interface with loads of floating windows?

Yep.

However if you really hate it you can use Gimpshop (http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294) which changes gimp's interface to be very similar to photoshop's.
 
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You could also try Tile Studio, its free and open source (but written in delphi so probably not a good candidate for porting to linux), designed for creating sprites tiles and it has a map editor, there is a gcc/sdl plugin for it too.

Edit: Actually there is loads of stuff on sourceforge if you search for sprite and tile editors, some of it even for posix.
 
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