Animate Preview

Usage

Usage: animate-preview --target STRING [--image STRING] [--high-dpi] [--fps INT]
                       [--watch]

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text
  --target STRING          File path with sprite information (YAML or JSON)
  --image STRING           Force sprite sheet's file path
  --high-dpi               Use high DPI (if available)
  --fps INT                Force frames per second (default: 60)
  --watch                  Watch target and image files. Automatically reload
                           files when changed

Commands

General

• m: Toggle modes - Playback and Stepper
• r: Reload sprite information and sprite sheet
• escape: Quit program

Movement

• j/down arrow: Move sprite down
• k/up arrow: Move sprite up
• h/left arrow: Move sprite left
• l/right arrow: Move sprite right
• mouse click (and drag): Sprite follows mouse cursor
• c: Center sprite

Keyframe

• n: Next keyframe animation
• p: Previous keyframe animation

Speed and Frame position

• f: (Playback Mode) Increase sprite animation speed. (Stepper Mode) Go to next frame.
• d: (Playback Mode) Decrease sprite animation speed. (Stepper Mode) Go to previous frame.
• a: Reset animation speed to 1x

Scaling

• s/mouse wheel click: Reset sprite scale to 1x
• +/scroll in: Scale up sprite
• -/scroll out: Scale down sprite

Visibility

• t: Iterate colors of the offset's crosshair (Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, None)
• b: Iterate colors of the background (Gray checkered, Black checkered, White checkered)
• o: Iterate colors of the sprite's outline (Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, None)
• i: Toggle showing or hiding animation information

Build

OSX build

brew install sdl2
brew install sdl2_ttf
brew install sdl2_image
brew install sdl2_gfx
stack build

Ubuntu build

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-gfx-dev
stack build

Windows build

stack exec -- pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_ttf mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_image mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_gfx
stack build