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What is ASE?

ASE (Allegro Sprite Editor) is an open source program to create animated sprites. Sprites are little images that can be used in your website or in a video game. You can draw characters with movement, intros, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos, color palettes, isometric levels, etc. ASE Quick Reference
Quick Reference

News in ASE 0.7.2   (04 Sep 2009)

  • Fixed bug #2847210: "Save" button when close a modified file was not working.

News in ASE 0.7.1   (10 Aug 2009)

  • Added "Sprite Size" command (feature #2671468).
  • Added "Save Copy As" command (feature #2636076).
  • Copy & Paste use Windows clipboard (feature #2577954).
  • Added "Canvas Size" and "Rotate Canvas" commands.
  • Fixed compilation support for gcc 64 bits.
  • Fixed a bug with multiple editors and paste command.
  • Fixed a bug in the File Open dialog when user presses ENTER key with an empty file name.
  • Fixed critical bugs in rendering code.
  • Added support to paste/copy text from/to Windows clipboard.
  • Added support to process Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V / Ctrl+P keys in all entry fields.
  • Fixed a bug where file names for new sprites are lower-case always (in Windows).
  • Fixed a program crash when try to open a file in the middle of a thumbnail generation process.

News in ASE 0.6.1

  • Added support to drag and drop files from Windows explorer (feature #2419098).
  • Fixed bug #2511762 (.PNG' extension unavailable in Open and Save As dialogs, thanks to Clayton Enga for the patch).

News in ASE 0.6

  • Added the Curve tool: Finally the bezier-spline is in ASE.
  • Added support to drag & drop colors in the Color bar (feature #2109224).
  • Added more angles to lock lines with the Shift (feature #1961397).
  • Fixed some serious bugs from ASE 0.6 beta 2.

What does ASE include?

  • Edit sprites with layers and frames.
  • Edit RGBA, Grayscale and Indexed images (256 color palettes).
  • Load/save sprites in these formats: .GIF, .FLC, .FLI, .PNG, .BMP, .PCX, .TGA, .JPG, and .ASE
  • Load/save animations in sequence of bitmaps (frm00.pcx, frm01.pcx, ...).
  • Tiled drawing mode to draw patterns and textures.
  • Undo/Redo support for every operation.
  • Special tools like Blur, Jumble, Convolution Matrices.
  • Multiple editor support.
  • Onion skinning support.

Do you need more? Request a feature.

Is it free? Yes! But you can make donations!

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