Question - IDE Image editor tools

[csanyk]

Is there a way to bring color palettes and brushes in from one instance of the Image Editor to another? It's annoying when I create a new sprite and open it for editing that I have to re-do all these things. I'd like to have a common set of brushes and palettes globally accessible to all image resources in a project.

Some good way for organizing brushes and palettes that I find useful across multiple projects would also be useful.

Also, the Image Editor should remember my custom brushes! Losing them between sessions working on my project is bad

 

[Mike]

These are not "custom brushes", just the ones you used last. Custom brushes would require you to save the brush into a slot and have you manage them. But these are global slots and shared across every open image editor.

You can always save your brushes in a hidden layer....

 

[csanyk]

Ah, thanks for the tips/workarounds

I'll have to make use of the hidden layer trick. Maybe have a set of sprite assets that is just for use with the image editor, never part of the finished build... you've opened my mind!

 

[Mike]

I do think "save brush as sprite" and "use sprite as brush" would be pretty useful.....

 

[Morne]

What happened to the Color PUNCH tool?

 

[Mike]

Whats the "colour punch" tool?

 

[csanyk]

Whats the "colour punch" tool?

I was wondering that myself... I think he meant the color replace tool from 1.x...

I miss this a lot, too.

 

[Cloaked Games]

Just wanted to add, to increase the chance of getting this feature back, I also really like the "color punch" tool. I think it was called "swap all pixels of matching colors" or something. I make sprites in GMS1 just to use that tool (and the image tools like glow and blur).

 

[Mike]

That's coming back in the next version. As requested

 

[RichHopefulComposer]

Just wanted to add, to increase the chance of getting this feature back, I also really like the "color punch" tool. I think it was called "swap all pixels of matching colors" or something. I make sprites in GMS1 just to use that tool (and the image tools like glow and blur).

You could also use any other pixel art program, for the record. They all have it, haha. Might be faster than opening up GMS, if you're just working on sprites.

 

[Cloaked Games]

True true. Glad they're coming back for GMS2 though.

 

[Morne]

Yes that is it! Thank you for keeping it.

 

[sumofunk]

Does anyone know if the animation tools are coming back? Like fade to color or disappear over X frames? My favorite was the ability to animate reverse. That made animating smooth and quick to add reverse in a simple click.