Odin is a great programming language. It lives up to at least this part of its mission statement.
I hadn't done any low level programming for a while before I started using Odin. Now I can't get enough.
Odin, while great, does have its rough edges. You can expect that from a newer language with a smaller community. And because the creator [Ginger Bill](https://twitter.com/TheGingerBill) develops on a Windows machine there's a few more rough edges in MacOS vs Windows. I am going to talk about one of the issues I ran into on Mac and ... Read More →
joy of programming
I hadn't done any low level programming for a while before I started using Odin. Now I can't get enough.
Odin, while great, does have its rough edges. You can expect that from a newer language with a smaller community. And because the creator [Ginger Bill](https://twitter.com/TheGingerBill) develops on a Windows machine there's a few more rough edges in MacOS vs Windows. I am going to talk about one of the issues I ran into on Mac and ... Read More →
Cute Exporter has been exporting the metadata about the texture atlas as a json file. This was because it's easy to do, and I know json better than other file formats.
But, there are game engines that don't use json. I want Cute Exporter to support those use cases.
My goals in supporting this use case are:
One solution may be to have a template format. You would create a template and direct Cute Exporter to fill it in. This works ... Read More →
But, there are game engines that don't use json. I want Cute Exporter to support those use cases.
My goals in supporting this use case are:
- Easy setup.
- Let user do what they want.
- User provided file extension.
- Easy to change.
Using a template file.
One solution may be to have a template format. You would create a template and direct Cute Exporter to fill it in. This works ... Read More →
Hello, I suspect not to many people read these posts but for those who do you may be wondering where I was. Well it’s been a busy and stressful last few months for my job and then I started playing minecraft and just played that way too much. However, I’m feeling better and I threw my gaming PC out the window now I only have time for making cool stuff again. I think I left Cute Exporter in a pretty good spot before my little hiatus, but it should be receiving some cool features soon. A big one on my ...
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The next version of Cute Exporter should be 2.5 here is what you should be able to expect in this version.
- A few builtin preset export formats
- JSON
- INI
- Suggest one if you’d like to see it
- Set the framerate of an animation
- Playback the animation at a framerate in the GUI
- Define regions in a PNG to export. Useful for asset packs that already exist as a texture atlas
- Improvements to showing the folder structure of parent assets in the GUI
- Automatically create an animation from a PSD or PSD group.
- Define custom anchor points / rects on a ...
Hello this is 2.1 of Cute Exporter!
Few small changes in the app. No new major features.
- Support Aseprite files saved as color indexed files.
- Support Aseprite files saved as grayscale.
- Support add PNG files to your project.
- Useful in cases where you already only have PNGs but also want to pack them as well.
- Ctrl/Cmd + s now saves the project.
- Ability to remove files from project
- Refresh asset from disk.
- Toggle trim alpha setting
- Export ASE cel’s location in parent document.
- Useful in cases where you trim alpha around your asset and export them as individual cels. You ...