so i been using the program for about two years now and i love it, but theres one thing that has annoyed me since the begginer and is what sops me from making my own palettes inside the program, and that thing is the way the palette organizes itself.
pushing the color around if you try to reposition one, ITS SO ANNOYING, before i could pass that because i didt mess with my palettes around but now with tilesets ,THE ORGANIZATION BECAME A NIGHTMARE, since everytime i try to push one part around everything else is reposition and to make something like this
its hell i genuinely think i pass more time organizing the tileset “palette” to get nity and good to use than actually making the tileset, and i’ll pass even more time now since for some reason the tilesets remap itself alone and messed everything up, i cant be the only one wanting this.
so heres my suggestion, insted of pusing all indexes to the right for some reason, just swap the color/tile with the one you moved to, make the indexes itself static and only change the information around, i know that now it would be too much trouble but theres plans for a ui rewrite right @dacap, pls try to make this happen
You may use Tilemap layer to create patterns like ones shown. And then just copy from this Tilemap layers to any other of Tilemap layers, including ones that use the same tileset.
But I agree overall that by default changing (moving) colors or tiles indexes is not very good idea.
It works with Alt now activating Eyedropper tool. But don’t try to click transparent pixels of tile, because then it will select something else. This behaviour should be (hopefully) corrected as it was already discussed in some thread recently.
you got it all wrong by alt i mena alt scroll, that command will let you scroll trhought the colors of the palette
also even if changing the way the palette move may not be a good idea it still is a pain the way it is right now
also what you sugest is a workaround we need the power to swap the information of indexes around to help organize the way i show you, go ahed and make like three tiles like i show nad try to organize them
Hi there actually I had some ideas to create an alternative 2D view of the palette (and tiles), so we could re-arrange colors (and tiles) moving then around. (Keeping indexes fixed.) I guess the “swapping” feature is an easy workaround to replace the content where the palette entries/tiles are dropped.
Still have to think about:
How should be the exact UI (how to switch between both views, how to “paint” in the 2D view)
How should palette groups be handled in both cases (linear and 2D), maybe only visible on linear (as in a 2D grid it’s easier to make groups)
How to store the 2D information (maybe a cel chunk)
Basically the 2D view would be quite similar to an editor, but:
Clicking a pixel/color/tile would drag&drop the pixel/color/tile (we should be able to repeat the same color/tile in several positions too)
The editable surface will be a hidden cel separated from the sprite, that shares the same palette/tileset that the current sprite layer.
well its good to know that this feature is somawhat on work thoght, this is beyound me, but what about the tile scrolling feature, like we do in palettes right now
I don’t get what you call “scrolling feature”. Becuse I can freely scroll colors and tiles with mouse wheel now. And holding Alt does not change anything.
I suggest showing colors/tiles patterns space just over linear palette/tileset, by default it should be hidden, but if you drag separator line you create space for patterns (and it should be kept even if you drag separator back up). Also this patterns space could support scrolling right/left with mouse wheel or horizontal scroll bar.
Palette groups only required in 2D pane i.e. in this patterns space. Extra texts could be added at any cell of colors/tiles patterns space by right clicking on it (holding long for touch control) and selecting “Make text/Edit text/Clear”. Texts may overlap next cells to the right.
It should be array of strings + 2D array of indices with negative indices addressing strings and positive indices addressing colors/tiles. Zero index is empty state.
Click+drag to move and Shift+Click+drag to copy color/tile in 2D pane. Also Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V and 2D selections too. Also Right click+“Clear” to delete text/remove color index.
but it doest, and im asking for it.
edit: also i just noticed that i can scroll trhought the palette but it doest indicate which color i am like before, i restarted the aseprite and its working again but still is strange
actually I had some ideas to create an alternative 2D view of the palette (and tiles), so we could re-arrange colors (and tiles) moving then around. (Keeping indexes fixed.) I guess the “swapping” feature is an easy workaround to replace the content where the palette entries/tiles are dropped.