Retro Sketch

Devlog

• Opening projects via command line args
  October 30, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #sketching, #sketch, #drawing, #digital art

  Found some issues while drawing that needed to be fixed, and I added the ability to open a file via command line args. You can now set Retro Sketch as the default application to open the save files. F... Continue reading
• Rotation Hotfix
  October 24, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #hotfix, #retro sketch, #drawing, #digital art

  The rotation of canvases had incorrect history when you undo/redo; this is now fixed... Continue reading
• Many fixes and a couple features
  October 24, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #8-bit, #retro, #sketch, #drawing, #digital art

  Features Added "Rotate 90 deg" option to layers Added ability to drag/drop canvases in the track window Fixes Fixed an issue with track order after duplicating a track Fixed canvas selection after dup... Continue reading
• Atlas Maker and Timeline Window Hotfix
  October 23, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#retro sketch, #pixel art, #animation, #drawing, #digital art

  Found an issue with Atlas Maker when you create clips, delete canvases, then return. Also found an issue with the vertical scroll in the Timeline Window. Both are resolved with this hotfix... Continue reading
• Unique canvas ID and fixes
  October 22, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #animation, #drawing, #digital art, #software, #retro, #sketch

  I'm adding in a unique id for each canvas created. This makes it possible for scripts to do cool things in the future as well as helps things like the Atlas Maker to be able to better save state in pr... Continue reading
• Bug fixes
  October 22, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #animation, #digital art, #drawing, #software, #tools

  Found some bugs while working on a game, so publishing fixes for those. Features Atlas Maker will detect duplicate selected frames across all clips and export only 1 for all Fixes Fixing view menu bar... Continue reading
• Timeline bug fixes
  October 19, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #animation, #retro, #drawing, #digital art

  The full documentation for the timeline window is now live as well as the following fixes: Fixes Fixed some text in settings window Fixed track right-click options going behind menu bar Fixed issue wi... Continue reading
• Improvement to Atlas Maker
  October 18, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #animation, #retro, #atlas, #digital art, #drawing

  I like to make each of my separate animations on their own track, so to make things easier I added a new " Add all " button on each track to make it easy to pick all canvases for the animation clip. F... Continue reading
• Adding "Atlas Maker" window
  October 18, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #digital art, #game art, #retro, #retro sketch

  Being that we primarily use Retro Sketch to develop artwork for our games, we wanted a way to simply create single-image atlases with multiple animations packed into them. You can access the new Atlas... Continue reading
• Adding auto save feature
  October 16, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #animation, #retro sketch, #digital art, #drawing, #8-bit

  Features Added auto saving (see settings to enable it) Added keyboard "Escape" key to close some floating windows Fixes Migrated app data to correct subfolder Fixed an issue with the export window sho... Continue reading
• Fixing bugs and adding hotkeys
  October 16, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #animation, #retro sketch, #8-bit, #drawing, #digital art

  While drawing, I found a few bugs that needed to be resolved. Fixes Fixed an issue with the help menu being offset Fixed a crash when adding and removing tracks in succession Fixed a the canvas someti... Continue reading
• Improved Lua scripting and fixed bugs
  October 16, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #animation, #8-bit, #retro sketch, #drawing, #digital art, #lua

  Lua Features Added value getting functions to input, slider, and checkbox Added layer add function Added layer select function Added layer count function Added function to get current layer and canvas... Continue reading
• Lua scripting and bug fixes
  October 16, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #retro sketch, #animation, #lua scriptiong, #lua

  This update's major feature is Lua scripting. You can now automate your editing/creation of pixel art through Lua. More API functions to come soon! Please review Retro Sketche's .exe directory in Stea... Continue reading
• Version 2.0 Launch
  October 16, 2024 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #8-bit, #animation, #drawing, #digital art, #software

  Today we are releasing a major update to Retro Sketch. It is now running on our new in-house Vulkan-based game engine. All of the rendering and UI drawing has been optimized and ported over from the o... Continue reading
• Retro Sketch - Pixel art and animation software
  August 26, 2022 by Marshmallow Bear#pixel art, #drawing, #announcement

  Retro Sketch Background We've been working on our pixel art and animation software for a little bit now and decided to setup an Itch page for it. The software is something that we needed to build our... Continue reading