meg4/docs/en/sprite.md

Sprite Editor

Click on the stamp icon (or press F3) to modify the sprites.

The sprites you create here can be displayed using [spr], and also used by [dlg] to generate a dialog window and by [stext] when it displays text on screen.

Sprite Editor

The editor has three main boxes, two on the top, and one below.

Sprite Editor Box

The one on the left is the sprite editor box (1). This is where you can draw the sprite. places the selected pixel on the sprite, clears it to empty.

When the Shift is hold down, then a line can be drawn from last modified point.

Sprite Selector

On the right you can see the sprite selector (2). The sprite you select here will be editable on the left. You can select multiple adjacent sprites and edit them together.

Palette

Below you can see the palette (3). The first item cannot be set, because that's for erase. If you select any other color, then the palette button will become active. Clicking on it will bring up the HSV color picker (5), and with that you can modify the color for that palette entry.

The default MEG-4 palette uses 32 colors of the DawnBringer32 palette, 8 grayscale gradients, and 6 x 6 x 6 RGB combinations.

Toolbar

Sprite Toolbar

Under the sprite editor, you see the tool buttons (4). With these you can easily modify the sprite. Shifting in different directions, rotating clock-wise, flipping etc. If there's an active selection, then they operate on the selection only, otherwise on the entire sprite. For the rotation, you must select an area which has the same width as height, otherwise rotation would be impossible.

The flood fill tool only fills adjacent same pixels, unless there's a selection. With a selection the entire selected area is filled, no matter what pixels the selection contains.

Selections

There are two kinds of selections: rectangle selection and fuzzy select. The former selects a rectangular area, the other selects continous regions with the same pixel. You can press and hold Shift to expand the selection, and Ctrl to intersect and make it smaller.

Pressing Ctrl+A will select all, and Ctrl+I will invert the current selection.

When a selection is active, you can press Ctrl+C to copy the area to the clipboard. Later, you can press Ctrl+V to paste it. Pasting works exactly like the pencil tool, except now you can paint with the whole copied area like a brush. It worth noting that empty pixels are copied to. If you don't want your brush to clear the area, then only select non-empty pixels (you can use Ctrl+ to deselect the empty areas) before copy, that way the empty pixels won't be copied to the clipboard, and in return won't be used as part of the brush.