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Hi all,

This weekend i started messing around with Visual Basic 5 out of boredom (i only wanted to make something simple like a doodle app for testing out the setup, but it got out of control :-P) and i ended up making a small sprite editor:

(http://i.imgur.com/SdiPay6.gif)

The editor is fairly simple but it already has a few features i miss when i'm doing pixel stuff with GIMP:

• A realtime tiled view to see how tiles... tile :-P
• The ability to shift/offset with the arrow keys
• Animation support with realtime preview as you edit
• Easily accessible palette

Since it became more than i originally planned, i'll probably rewrite it at some point in Lazarus so it can grow easier and be natively cross platform (although the Wine compatibility seems to be without issues (http://runtimelegend.com/tools/mseditor/linux.png)).

The editor saves in BMP and its own MSF (Mini Sprite File) format, which is very simple to read and use (http://runtimelegend.com/tools/mseditor/fileformat.html). Also it can save a series of BMP files if you don't want to mess with custom formats.

You can find it here: http://runtimelegend.com/tools/mseditor/