by graspee » Mon 17. Nov 2014, 05:32
Just got the program today, really love it. I've only used it for about an hour so some of these could be features already that I have missed, if so I apologise.
1) oval, circle, rectangle tools, both fully-filled and outline only.
1.5) Line tool.
2) Ability to enter colours numerically and to see the number of a colour you have selected, e.g. red, green and blue components from 0-255. Also ability to use sliders to set the RGB of a colour. HSV sliders would be good too. I know about the colour changer on the filter window and the keys you can use on the main drawing area but they aren't quite what I want. For example ctrl-click on main window makes a pixel darker: it would be good to set an amount that would be used, otherwise I might have to click each pixel three times to make them as dark as I want. Also I feel like the behaviour of drawing with the mouse held down with ctrl should be that each pixel only has the "darken" effect applied once, otherwise you risk making some pixels darker than you wanted because you "visit" some pixels more than once.
3) The documentation mentions an "icon" view window which I can't find in the program. I really need a view of a sprite I can see as I'm working that is a different size to 1:1 pixel. Usually I would want it to be 2x size but it would be nice to be able to zoom it in and out. edit: I have found I can use the animation window to show a 2x view. A range of sizes would be better than just 2x but I can live with it.
4) I appreciate that the program was designed to work with a specific game but it's a shame that there's quite a few good features in the projects other than custom which you can't use in a custom project for example the tile preview window for testing out sprites and the ability to see the surrounding sprites when you are working on one so that you can make them join up properly.
5) The help screen often talks about the "linked topics below" but nothing is there except a picture and nothing can be clicked.
6) "Grade" should be named "Gradient". I know not everyone has English as a first language but this actually confused me for ages before I worked out what it was.
7) When you draw multiple pixels by holding the mouse down the undo function undoes each pixel one at a time. Most programs treat all the pixels drawn (or changed with lighten/darken etc.) in one go as one thing to undo. I would prefer this, or at least to have it as an option.