All effects can be summed together, but some effect will cancel or diminish others such as greyscale effect or pixalated effect.
- blending effect (blend the sprite with a specific color and choose the intensity)
- HSV (hue rotation), rotate the colors of your sprites. This effect is great to create colorful animation with different color variation from the same model.
- Bloom, create a bloom effect using a selective bright pass filter, this effect will increase the intensity of you explosion sprites
- Create saturarion effect
- Create a superb cartoon effect for all your sprites. This effect can also create an edge detection effect (when both median filter and color reduction values are set to zero.
- Create a Gaussian blur effect (kernel 5x5) of intensity x1 x2 x4 x6 Blur your sprites to the desire intensity, or use the progressive flag to adjust the blur with the timeline.
- Glowing effect (load a specific image and choose a glowing direction)
- RGB channels (select a model of your choice e.g BGR, GRB etc). Swap channels at your convenience or enable/ disable the channel of your choice.
- RGB split (apply to 24 bit image format only). Create an RGB split effect, superpose effet of red, green and blue channels (choose the coorect offset to move the channels at the suitable position)
- Transition effect, display your sprites and change the appearance toward a specific texture (this is similar to a morphing effect)
- Glitch effect (vertical and horizontal directions). Add a special motion to your sprites to simulate a glitch effect that could enhence the animation
- Dithering effect, aesthetic effect to create a retro type animation
- Pixalated effect, modify your sprites with pixalation effect with adjustable pixels block's size.
- convert your sprite in sepia. Change the tone of your animation toward a smooth sepia effect
- Greyscale effect. All will be sadly gray !
- Inverse effect, Inverse the sprites color
Python > 3.0
future~=0.16.0
pygame~=2.0.1
numpy~=1.18.5
Pmw~=2.0.1
Pillow~=8.0.1
Cython~=0.29.21
Download the executable file and run the installer (check the github release section)
New release v1.0.0-alpha
Actual version is a pre-release and the current project is stil under development and testing
Please report any issues if you wish them to be fixed.
Below a spritesheet that can be loaded by the interface.
Observe the background color (solid black) and the number of sprites icnluded in the
spritesheet.
The image is composed by 8 columns and 8 rows and give us a total of 64 sprites
To determine the sprite width and height we need to check first the spritesheet
dimension (here 2048x2048 pixels), that give us the following sprite dimension,
256x256 (2048 / 8)
* The actual version (1.0.0 - alpha) does not include sprite padding functionaly nor
an automatic sprite size detection option (all the values have to be entered manually before
loading the spritesheet)
* It is also compulsory to know the image format (24-bit or 32-bit) and tick the correct option
in the input settings. In our scenario, it will be a 24-bit image format (without per-pixel
transparency)
In order to load the above spritesheet we will enter the following values, tick the box 24-bit
and load the file (the file must be JPG, PNG, GIF (non-animated), BMP, PCX, TGA (uncompressed)
TIF).
* If the image has a transparency background, select the 32-bit option instead
* The file will fail to load if the input values are not correct.
Blend the sprite with a specific color (ajust the blending percentage to obtain
the required color effect).
Set the exlude color to avoid the background to be blended otherwise the background
will included in the blend process.
Adjust the percentage with the scale.
HSV (for hue, saturation, value; also known as HSB, for hue, saturation,
brightness) are alternative representations of the RGB color model
This effect will change the color of your sprites to a define color or will rotate
the hue automatically for your animation starting a -180 degrees ending at
+180 degres when the hsv rotate option is enabled.
Bloom effect
Bloom is a computer graphics effect used in video games, demos, and high dynamic range
rendering to reproduce an imaging artifact of real-world cameras.
The algorithm is based on my previous project bloom (have a look to my github page
to have a full understanding on how to)
The bloom effect will increase the brightness of your sprite creating a kind
of bright halo of light aroud the object (sprite).
It relies on a bright pass filter in order to find the brighest area in your
image and enhance those areas.
In the future version I will include an RGB color selections for the bloom effect
Saturation
Saturation refers to the intensity of a color. The higher the saturation of a
color, the more vivid it is. The lower the saturation of a color, the closer
it is to gray. Lowering the saturation of a photo can have a “muting” or calming
effect, while increasing it can increase the feel of the vividness of the scene.
Cartoon effect
This is a appealing ffect that will modify your sprites into a cartonish model.
It is based on an edge detection algorithm (canny edge detection in addition
with a median filter and color reduction).
When the median filter & color reduction are null the sprites animation will be
converted to an edge detection animation.
Blur Effect
Apply a Gaussian blur effect kernel 5x5.
Select the number of passes x2 x4 x6
The pixels outside the image are substitute for the adjacent edge pixel for example
pixel [-2, 0] will be equivalent to pixel [0,0]
GLOW effect
Select a texture that will represent the glow motion an select a diretion
note that the selected texture must match the direction otherwise the effect
will look odd. for example if you select the directions right and left the texture
would have to be a vertical shape (height > width). For up or down glowing effect
the texture would have to be the opposite (width > height)
In the main direction under Assets you can find texture that can be used for
the glowing effect, such as icon_glareFx_blue, icon_glareFx_blue_top_left2bottom_right,
icon_glareFx_blue_top_right2bottom_left, icon_glareFx_red.
With the scale you can define a specific color for the glow effect.
RGB channels
Convert your sprites to a different model
choose from the drop down menu any of this models
RBG, RBG, GRB, BRG, BGR, GBR and activate or disable the color channel of your
choice
RGB split effect
An RGB Split Effect results in photos that have a glitch-like appearance, where
the colors that comprise all white light (red, green, blue) went out-of-bounds
select the x & y offset for the channels RGB.
Specify the start and End value of the effect
Transition
This effect allows the sprites to merge toward a static texture.
For example if you have a sprite animation of a errupting volcano effect, the transition
will smoothly merge to a final image that could be a cold volcano.
Without any texture, the sprite animation will morph toward the background color
Texture must be a PNG, JPEG, BMP
GLITCH
Add a glitch effect to you sprites using a lateral / vertical motion
Dithering
A common use of dither is converting a grayscale image to black and white, such
that the density of black dots in the new image approximates the average gray-level
in the original.
select a value for the intensity effect maximun dithering effect is value equal zero
Pixelated
Create a pixelated effect for your sprites, choose the pixel block size as
a multiple of 2 such as for example 4, 8, 16, 32, 64
Sepia
Sepia is a reddish-brown color, named after the rich brown pigment derived from the
ink sac of the common cuttlefish Sepia.
Greyscale
In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colourimetry, a greyscale
image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only
an amount of light; that is, it carries only intensity information. Greyscale
images, a kind of black-and-white or grey monochrome, are composed exclusively
of shades of grey. The contrast ranges from black at the weakest intensity to white
at the strongest
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