A downloadable tool for Windows
If you usePaint .NET for creating sprite animations, then this plugin is for you. It allows you to view any sequence of frames as an animation within an image without having to leave Paint .NET. You can also save all frames of an animation as a single multi-frame strip, individual PNG files, or as an animated GIF(experimental). Help is also integrated into the plugin. Just hover over the parameter in question and a pop-up will appear.
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| Status | Released |
| Category | Tool |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (38 total ratings) |
| Author | Pixelbyte Studios |
| Tags | Animation,Game Design,paint-net,Pixel Art,Sprites |
| Average session | About an hour |
| Languages | English |
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Hello. I have been using this plugin for quite some time now and it's great. But suddenly yesterday it started to fail, and I don't understand why.
Whenever I run the plugin works fine (Though it always starts from the default configuration), but the green bar below in the on of the pictures appear loading forever. And when I turn it off, the whole program shuts down on an error.
Most likely is a problem of my PC, but maybe you know what is going on.
It says that paint.net detected an uncontrolled exception and must be closed.
i love this plugin!! i use it all the time, it's so much more intuitive to me than some regular animation programs (do i look like i know what a "shape tween" is, i just want a video of a hot dog)
a couple small things i've noticed, the "use black as transparency" button is more like use the darkest color per frame as transparency, so if you only want a few frames to be transparent, like a door opening or a full-screen explosion, you end up with a very broken gif :\ "use exactly #000000 as transparency" fixes this and it sounds easier to implement, too, and it would open up the option for the user to choose which hex becomes transparent
also the frame size seemingly arbitrarily maxes out at 1000 pixels per side (and border at only 100...), which isn't an issue in most smaller use cases but i've run into that wall a few times, so it seems better to just say "frames larger than 1000x1000 have the risk of lagging or crashing" somewhere if that's the problem there?
thanks for making this, the option to make the gif not loop is the BEST and this plugin in general has made me so much more productive in actually making animations rather than spending a month fiddling complicated program UI!!
All the colors used in the output gif are modified by quantizing them into a smaller subset of colors (256 for the algorithm I'm using). This means any color close to black may be assigned to be black in the output gif. Thus, if you check "use black as transparent", those colors would then be made transparent. If the transparent color was changeable, it would still be subject to the above issue as the algorithm controls which colors are combined, but I can put it on my list of things to look into. If you limit yourself to 256 colors (including black), I don't think the algorithm will modify them, but I'm not 100% sure. The max output gif frame size of 1000x1000 is new to me and must be another constraint of the library I'm using to make it all work.
Hello, ActuallyASign!
The plugin take only the selected layer to make the animation. So, you can make another layer with your grid! In paint.net forum nicos62 made another plugin to help us to make grid. Here's the link:
https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/113723-spritesheet-grid-modifier/
okay so i'm not sure if this is the fault of this plugin or the dpi settings i messed with but even after trying to uninstall it and revert my settings it was still broken. i uninstalled and reinstalled pdn and now even that wont work because it hits a fatal error in the installation process that i dont know how to fix. moral of the story: if you need to mess with your computer settings to get this plugin to work, don't.
Whenever I use the plugin to animate a sprite the Animation Helper window opens very small. When I resize the window to be bigger, all the text/buttons in the window remain smooshed in a tiny section of the window and are basically unusable. Any ideas on how I can fix this. I'm running the newest version of windows 10. Any help would be great! Thanks