Animanatee (updated 2009 Sep 3)

September 4th, 2009, 00:16 Posted By: wraggster

News/release from DekuTree64

Yet another little art program for DS.

The controls are explained in the program, but here are the basic features:
- 2 layers ("BG" and "Top"). BG gets copied over when you create a new frame, so you can have a persistent background, or modify it as you go.
- 60 color palette, which can all be modified.
- Brush size up to 16 pixels, with optional pressure sensitivity.
- Up to 10000 frames, or until memory runs out.
- Undo/redo. Up to 32 levels, or until it fills its 128KB buffer.
- Onion skinning.
- Copy/paste (currently only copies full layers).
- Zoom up to 16x.

NEW in v1.5
- Onion skinning can now be turned on for previous frame, next frame, or both.
- Onion skinning works while zoomed in.
- Added halftone brushes.
- Added 16x zoom level.
- Added Merge Layers button, to combine both layers into one.
- Added page buttons to save/load menu, so you can now use up to 100 slots.
- Added Up/X tool selection. You can now switch between Fill, Eraser, and Dropper.

Changes for 1.5b
- Preview is now loaded one frame at a time, to reduce memory usage (this was effectively cutting the maximum animation size in half).

Things I'd like to add:
- One more layer.
- Less stylus jumping.
- A Mario Paint style music sequencer.
- Playing a wav/mp3/etc. file along with the animation.
- Recording a sound track with the microphone.
- Stamps.
- Save calibration settings to a config file.

Feel free to add to the list, or to vote for which of the ones on there that you'd like to see first.

Cheers!

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