LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor(libresprite.github.io) |
LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor(libresprite.github.io) |
> LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello. Aseprite used to be distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2, but was moved to a proprietary license on August 26th, 2016.
> This fork was made on the last commit covered by the GPL version 2 license, and is now developed independently of Aseprite.
Also I am not really sure if you can convince me that this is a open source license: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/main/EULA.txt
Not that it is a unreasonable license, but it is not open source.
[0]: https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite?tab=readme-ov-fil...
This is one case where we really should support the original product, you can buy a perpetual licence of a pittance and they just 2 guys chugging along.
LibreSprite has 5000 commits, 30 in the past year whilst ASEPrite has over 10000 at this point.
2. It’s okay for two projects to do the same thing, even if you personally prefer one over the other.
You might be confusing license with access. The product itself has a proprietary license. Even then, a majority of the libraries they produce are also available under the MIT license.
I highly recommend paying for Aseprite, it's a very good little tool.
it does not have the ability to draw with higher resolution brushes for subsequent resolution reduction, etc.;
it does not have shader graphs, as in Blender, Pixel Composer, PixelOver;
it is difficult to draw in an indexed palette, unlike PixiEditor,
you can't take 3D renderers and transform them into pixel art, like in PixelOver or Blender,
and there's no bone animation for 2D, like in Spine.
Aseprite is a good editor if you like to paint pixel by pixel every frame without using the advancements and workflows that other style designers and artists use, but calling it the best would be an exaggeration.
If you're looking for pixel-art sprites, check out 8bitsmith.com. Or you can just ask Nano-Banana for sprite sheets and it does a pretty good job!
https://github.com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama
https://github.com/piskelapp/piskel
They're similar pixel art editor programs.
https://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
I guess it's a bit old but it works reasonably well, and supports a lot of different file formats which is occasionally useful.
I like it a lot. Pixel art is shockingly approachable and the animation stuff in Aseprite is pretty fun.
I still haven't tried LibreSprite, so I don't know if it's better.
However, in open source, you can ensure this stability (and also share the solution with others).
func RebootItAll()"Did you open libreterminal and use librels and libreget to download librebrowser to open libresearch?"
It lacks identity (just a little bit is fine) and distinctiveness, imo.
I actually did some testing of spritesheeting with Nano Banana Pro a while back:
https://mordenstar.com/other/nb-sprites
If you use the editing capabilities and send in a grid of 32×32 cells on a 1024×1024 image, you can get it to flood-fill in each square, so you end up with properly aligned 32×32 tiles. Then you can squash it via nearest neighbor to pull the lines back out, and reduce the palette using something like unfake.js:
But even still it has issues sometimes.
The intersection of people interested in Aseprite and people wanting to just spawn this stuff out of thin air is fairly low!
Libresprite is an important project because people can fork it and learn from it by extending it, and submit those patches upstream, regardless of how active it is.
A fork of the old version to have a slightly better version conveniently available in package repos would be nice. I don't think it has to catch up with Aseprite to be useful.
It's good to support honest and high quality proprietary software.
Aseprite offers the latter good, this offers the former good.
Of course, a point could be made that any inoffensive but basically fluffy name is still better than a geeky sounding tech babble name...
So I totally agree on rather having a name that appeals normal users, than a certain tech bubble who will rather use the terminal wherever they can anyway ..
"source available"[1] is a different thing, and you're right that this project is "source available".
[0]: https://opensource.org/osd
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
Their EULA forbids distributing the software, hence not open source.
What other major software has that?
Linux?
EDIT: Also Qt, MySQL, SQLite, GIMP (rather unnecessarily), ...
Ref: https://youtu.be/YHBve8v13VY?si=Bql2vH6C4goZN_kX
From your comment somehow I was expecting something a bit more exotic
Every latin-derived language (which are most of the western languages) can pronounce it naturally, and even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood (even though they're incapable of pronouncing the non-retroflex `r`).
I'd go for "LEE-broffis" which I don't think is all that hideously far away?
"This Hour has 22 Minutes" had a great sketch where both a Francophone (Gavin Crawford impersonating Chantal Hebert) and an Anglo (I forget who) were stumbling over proper nouns from the opposite language. The joke was that both were trying too hard to pronounce things "properly". It came off as inauthentic and awkward.