Sprite Tool Improvements
ive been using the standalone offline microstudio for a few days now and i adore it! there have been some hiccups but overall this is a very nice program thats very easy to use.
however, i would like to put in a few suggestions for the sprite art section of the program specifically.
i've been a hobby pixel artist for many many years and there are a few tools i tend to use a lot in other programs that are absent in microstudio.
the first one is non-contiguous fill -
i'm very indecisive when it comes to colors and often find myself swapping palettes many many times during my pixel art creation.
normally the fill bucket would suffice, but if there are many small disconnected sections of a color (most commonly because of one-pixel-wide outlines) then it can become very tedious to click every section with the bucket
an option to recolor every pixel of a given color would be fantastic
second is the ability to crop sprites -
unless im missing something, the "resize" option on a sprite attempts to resize the art to the new canvas size, leaving horribly blurry and unattractive artifacts across the image.
i would love an option to just crop the canvas, so i can remove extra space i didnt end up using
i can get around this by copying the art to a new sprite file with the correct dimensions but that can be tedious
third is a proper color wheel -
again, i may be missing something, but microstudio can obviously support all RGB colors, so im unsure why the sprite pixel art part only offers a preset selection of colors. you can fine-tune the color by modifying the rgb numbers under the color options but its very hard to visualize what youre doing while just editing numbers
preferably this would be togglable so you could still use the pre-selected colors if you want
and finally is keyboard shortcuts -
you can already press ALT to quickly pick a color off the canvas which is great, but i find myself attempting to switch between the pencil, the eraser, and the fill bucket using photoshop shortcuts, which don't work in microstudio.
shortcuts can streamline work a ton, and needing to click the tool i want to use every time is a bit tedious.
the ability to rebind the shortcuts would also be fantastic, to increase ease of use by people used to different art programs
these are just suggestions and the sprite section of the program is already great! im looking forward to continuing to use this program <3
edit: didnt realize the text displays slightly differently when posted, which made it seem like this post had horrible run-on sentences. hopefully fixed now!
