LibreSprite: free pixel-art sprite editor and animator, README overview
The README presents LibreSprite as a free and open source program for creating and animating sprites.
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Source: https://github.com/libresprite/libresprite
What it supplies: The README presents LibreSprite as a free and open source program for creating and animating sprites.
Useful for: - Draw pixel-art sprites with pixel-precise tools and palettes.
- Animate with layers, frames, onion skinning and real-time previews.
- Draw patterns and textures with the tiled drawing mode.
First action: - Download the latest release for your system.
- Or compile it by following INSTALL.md.
Prerequisites and limits: The README names releases for Linux, MacOS, Windows and Android and gives no version or hardware requirements.
- The README describes its community as newly budding.
- Feature details beyond the list are not in the README.
Source-documented: distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 2. It is a fork of the last GPL version 2 Aseprite commit and is independent of Aseprite, which has a proprietary licence.
Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on README text only; the releases, INSTALL.md and code were not read. Nothing was installed or run.
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