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| − | '''RotSprite''' is a sprite rotation and scaling utility developed by [[Xenowhirl]]. It outperforms most professional graphics software (such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro) when rotating sprites through an angle other than 90° or one of its multiples. Typically, other graphics editors will apply anti-aliasing or use a primitive nearest-neighbor method when rotating images, which produces results that are ugly or unsuitable for sprites. | + | '''RotSprite''' is a sprite rotation and scaling utility developed by [[User:Xenowhirl|Xenowhirl]]. It outperforms most professional graphics software (such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro) when rotating sprites through an angle other than 90° or one of its multiples. Typically, other graphics editors will apply anti-aliasing or use a primitive nearest-neighbor method when rotating images, which produces results that are ugly or unsuitable for sprites. |
As Xenowhirl has himself said [http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=8848], this utility has been released because "the walking and running frames in ''Sonic 1'', ''2'', and ''3'' all need 45 degree rotated equivalents" and "making rotated versions of sprites is usually a pain in the ass, because most programs that rotate a sprite will antialias it (which blurs it and messes with the colors)". RotSprite uses a special algorithm instead which tries to preserve the original sprite's feature by "guessing" pixel patterns. | As Xenowhirl has himself said [http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=8848], this utility has been released because "the walking and running frames in ''Sonic 1'', ''2'', and ''3'' all need 45 degree rotated equivalents" and "making rotated versions of sprites is usually a pain in the ass, because most programs that rotate a sprite will antialias it (which blurs it and messes with the colors)". RotSprite uses a special algorithm instead which tries to preserve the original sprite's feature by "guessing" pixel patterns. | ||
Latest revision as of 14:04, 11 April 2018
RotSprite is a sprite rotation and scaling utility developed by Xenowhirl. It outperforms most professional graphics software (such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro) when rotating sprites through an angle other than 90° or one of its multiples. Typically, other graphics editors will apply anti-aliasing or use a primitive nearest-neighbor method when rotating images, which produces results that are ugly or unsuitable for sprites.
As Xenowhirl has himself said [1], this utility has been released because "the walking and running frames in Sonic 1, 2, and 3 all need 45 degree rotated equivalents" and "making rotated versions of sprites is usually a pain in the ass, because most programs that rotate a sprite will antialias it (which blurs it and messes with the colors)". RotSprite uses a special algorithm instead which tries to preserve the original sprite's feature by "guessing" pixel patterns.
As an additional feature, RotSprite can also resize sprites (and it does a very good job also for this task).
Several major sceners found this utility very useful.
Downloads
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Download RotSprite
File: Rotsprite.7z (42 kB) (info)
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