My old Linux laptop just died, so I’m re-building things on a new computer. I downloaded the latest version of Aseprite (1.2.34.1-x64) from itch and it starts and works great.
When I re-run my sprite export to build my spritesheet, it seems all the tags no longer export their data fields. And it looks like, in the GUI, there’s no place in the tag to associate custom data anymore. Is that right? When did this get removed?
I was using that custom data to indicate which animations need to only run once. This isn’t something I can store in the cel data because I use the same cel in multiple tags (doors opening and closing, for example).
So I guess this is part help and part feature request – am I just missing something and the tag user data moved elsewhere? If it’s really gone now, is there any other way currently built-in to Aseprite to solve this problem?
If not, I guess that’s the feature request part: maybe extending animation direction could do it, like “forward once” and “reverse once”? Those both sound kind of weird to me.
I’d very much like to keep this data all in one place, inside the .ase files and accessible from Aseprite. Failing that, I think I have to keep track of which animations on which sprites only run once. It’s not terrible, just kind of clunky. Makes me miss the tag data; why was it removed? I went looking through past blog posts but didn’t see any notification of it.
How are other people solving this problem?