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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. Quick Reference
Quick Reference

ASE 0.8.1 Beta Released   (13 Aug 2010)

New ASE version released:

  • Improved "Tools Configuration" dialog to show only necessary options for the current tool.
  • Added "Tolerance" parameter to Magic Wand and Paint Bucket (Trent Gamblin idea).
  • Fixed critical problem rendering indexed images with a non-black color in palette entry 0.

ASE 0.8.0 Beta Released   (12 Aug 2010)

New beta version of ASE released with a lot of new features:

  • USER INTERFACE CHANGES!
    • Now you zoom using the mouse wheel without pressing Alt key.
    • Now tools are grouped.
    • Color-bar is completely redesigned (see Quick Reference).
    • Improved selection tools: Now you can move selected pixels dragging the selected area (like MS Paint). [work-in-progress]
    • New ASE skin created by Ilija Melentijevic.
    • "Tools" menu is gone:
      • "Tools > Configure" was moved to "Edit > Tools".
      • "Tools > Options" was moved to "Edit > Options".
      • "Tools > FX" was moved to "Edit > FX".
      • All other options are in "View" (Animation Editor, Palette Editor).
  • New tools: Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, Magic Wand, Eyedropper (as an independet tool, Alt+click is available too), Hand, Move, (Filled) Countour, and (Filled) Polygon.
  • Now the editor cursor displays pen preview (Ilija Melentijevic idea, like Animator Pro).
  • Added compression to .ase/.aseprite format.
  • Added support to zoom when you are drawing (e.g. you can use the mouse wheel when you are drawing a polygon or a long line).

ASE migrated to Git   (28 Feb 2010)

ASE repository was migrated to Git. You can clone the repository with the following command: 

  git clone git://ase.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ase/ase

Get a Git client for Windows here.

ASE 0.7.2 Released   (04 Sep 2009)

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

ASE 0.7.1 Released   (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.

ASE 0.6.1 Released

  • 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).

ASE 0.6 Released

  • 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 you can do?

  • 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?

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Is it free? Yes!

But you can make donations!

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