Re: [Mtpaint-user] [Feature Request] Sprite-sheet oriented edit/view mode

[Dmitry G. <wj...@us...>]

Hello!

You wrote:
> I was just wondering if there'd be a chance of supporting this little hack
> more officially? Like to be able to toggle an overlay tile mask on/off, and
> then use a key combo + arrows to scroll the current image around underneath
> it in order to test the animation effect. It's kind of pain to set up this
> animation thingy with multiple layers every time.

In recent versions, this task (like most things) can be scripted once
and re-run at will.
But given that I still hadn't found enough perseverance in me to
convert a batch of forum posts about it into proper docs... :-(
Anyhow, see below for a possibly better solution.
(BTW, key assignments are now configurable, too.)

> Another option would be to just be able to toggle into a special VIEW MODE
> that only shows one tile in the image at a time, and you can flip between
> image tiles in this view.

Technically, said mode even already exists, internally; when mtPaint
is playing (or rendering) a preconfigured animation, the view is
clipped to the background layer.
If I add a toggle to enable it at will, it would remove the need of an
overlay mask at all. I think to make it "View->Clip to background" -
unless you could suggest a better name and/or place in menus for it?

BTW, a tile-strip animation can easily be configured to auto-play as,
well, animation. :-) See here:
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/handbook/en_GB/chap_09.html#SEC33


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-= With best regards, Dmitry Groshev =-