Strokes stay strokes
A pencil stroke is the path the pencil took and the brush it took it with. A fill is the area it found. A rectangle is a rectangle.
An engine and the editors built on it
The math is the truth.
Pixels are only output.
LiveSprite keeps a sprite as what you did to make it (strokes, fills, shapes, transforms) and draws the pixels only when they are shown. Nothing is resampled, so nothing goes soft.
One idea, all the way down
Changes stay changes
Rotation, scale and offset are numbers on a layer. Set them back to zero and the original returns exactly. A palette slot recolours everything painted through it.
Pixels are output
They exist on the screen and in the files you export, and nowhere else. Turn a layer by 23 degrees and the drawing is walked again at that angle: clean lines, fills still inside their outlines, dithers still dithers.
Three pieces
Engine
livesprite-engine
The C++ library underneath: sprites as operations, compiled to pixels on demand. Source-available under the Business Source License 1.1, which converts to Apache-2.0 on 2030-09-06.
Free editor
Sprit's'fast
A sprite and pixel-art editor with layers, animation, palettes, sprite sheets and cutout puppets. Free, offline, no account, open source under Apache-2.0.
Paid suite
Sprit's'pract
The production suite on the same engine, opening Fast’s files as they are: IK, key poses, ramps, 3D, video, extraction, an Importer and an Arranger. In development; not released.
Licences, said plainly
Open source is a specific thing, so here is exactly what each piece is.
| Piece | Licence | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Sprit's'fast | Apache-2.0 | Open source. Use it, change it, share it; the licence asks for its notice to travel with it. |
| livesprite-engine | Business Source License 1.1 | Source-available, not OSI open source. Free to use in sprite-editing tools, commercial ones included. Embedding it in a game at run time needs a separate licence. Becomes Apache-2.0 on 2030-09-06. |
| Sprit's'pract | Proprietary | The paid suite. Not released. |
For a run-time licence, or any licensing question, write to [email protected].