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Sprytile is 4! Please Give To Relief

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 07:31:29 GMT

I wish I had more to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Sprytile with, but this year has been a lot. I'll always be grateful to see people creating art with Sprytile, thank you so much for sticking w...

Philippine Typhoon Relief

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:22:57 GMT

The Philippines, which is where I am from, has been hit by a series of typhoons in recent weeks with the worst damage being done by Typhoon Vamco / Ulysses a few days ago. In addition to my personal...

Sprytile 0.5 Quick Start Video Tutorial

Sun, 04 Oct 2020 06:34:32 GMT

There is now a video tutorial for the Sprytile quick start guide. This is just a basic tutorial, a more advanced guide will come later. If Sprytile is useful to you, donations through the itch page or...

Sprytile v0.5.20 - Documentation and Bugfix Release

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:21:54 GMT

Hey folks! This month's Sprytile work was focused on updating the written tutorial to reflect the current state of Sprytile. An updated video tutorial will be coming soon, but I've always prioritized...

Sprytile 0.5.15 for Blender 2.90

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 06:07:27 GMT

Blender just released version 2.90, and Sprytile has a new release alongside it! For this version, I focused on cleaning up the UI/UX issues that I encountered working with Sprytile, which means this...

v0.5.10 - Minor bugfix release

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 04:20:25 GMT

Hi folks! This is a minor bugfix release, just to cleanup some small issues from the porting to Blender 2.8. Floor to grid command fixed Added setup viewport command to edit mode panel Swap rotation s...

Official Blender 2.8 Release

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 11:39:10 GMT

Hi folks! Sorry for the long long long delay, but finally the official release of Sprytile for Blender 2.8 is out! Sprytile test in Blender 2.8, using the Azul tileset All of the work porting Blender...

Mesh Decal Layer Release

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 03:04:22 GMT

I'm excited to announce the mainline release of Sprytile's decal layer feature! Use the updater to get this new release. Unfortunately, I could only implement the decal mesh functionality for this rel...

Upcoming Feature: Decal Layers

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 16:33:13 GMT

Hi folks! Sorry for the long radio silence, but I'm here to announce the next big feature for Sprytile's release! The next release of Sprytile will add a decal layer on the meshes you create. Initiall...

Sprytile Tutorial, Bugfix Release

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 23:09:35 GMT

If you've been hesitating getting into Sprytile, Mort has created an excellent tutorial for Sprytile that also covers Blender basics which might help you get started easier! Mort has more tutorials on...

All Quiet On The Development Front, Until…

Sat, 24 Feb 2018 15:03:06 GMT

It's been all quiet on the Sprytile dev front. Too quiet. So here's a quick dev update. High Res Tilesets, Baby! I was fretting over implementing high resolution tilesets because I thought my code was...

The Adventurous Undersea Friendos!

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 05:58:18 GMT

Just wanted to post an 3D diorama that I just completed using Sprytile! These are the Undersea Friendos, three friends in search of adventure and soggy sandwiches. If you'd like to see a WIP and the S...

Bug fix for Load Tileset

Sat, 04 Nov 2017 05:28:21 GMT

This is a small teeny tiny release to fix a bug with loading tilesets. Use the updater to get the latest version or download the latest version on itch to manually update Sprtyile. If you encounter bu...

Closing Time…

Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:57:22 GMT

Hey gang! I'm writing this devlog to give people a heads up on the future of Sprytile. First off, don't worry. Sprytile is not going anywhere and development won't be stopping. However, by December I'...

Automatic Padding, and Patreon Launch!

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:20:16 GMT

Hey there, pals! There's a new version of Sprytile out today, with a few features that enhances the Sprytile workflow. To get the latest version of Sprytile, you can use the updater found in Sprytile'...

Bug fixes

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:14:27 GMT

Yet another bugfix release, what fun! This release fixes an occasional bug that happens with a blank mesh and joined multi tile building and an error that was introduced with the tileset loader when u...

Material Setup: Simplified

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 12:39:24 GMT

This release is a minor update that makes loading tile sets a lot easier and fixes some under the hood bugs with regards to material setup. A texture setup bug was reported on the forum (thanks zer-o...

Blender 2.79 Bugfix Release

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:28:32 GMT

If you've tried using Sprytile with the latest version of Blender (2.79) you may have noticed that the Workflow panel is not displaying. This minor release should fix this bug. Thanks to MasterBeany f...

Discord Weekly Challenges

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 04:27:48 GMT

Hi folks! To build up the community, we're running weekly art challenges in the Sprytile Discord server. We'll be figuring out the format as we go along, for now it's all just for fun and the winner g...

Community Chatroom

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:53:27 GMT

Hi folks! Sorry for the delay in updates to Sprytile, life events have made it difficult to work on Sprytile but I hope to be able to resume work on it ASAP. In the meantime, a suggestion has been bro...

Sketchfab Texture Explorer

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 05:38:13 GMT

I took a little detour from Sprytile documentation and development because I got interested in making a tool to make it easier to look at the textures in a Sketchfab model and to load a different text...

Documentation, Showcase, and a Patreon

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 11:49:07 GMT

Documentation Hi there! I just made an update to the written documentation for Sprytile that clarifies some steps I've overlooked and updates some of the instructions for new workflows and features. I...

Multi-tile Selection is Here!

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:11:13 GMT

It's been a long road, getting from there to here. It's been a long time, but multi tile is finally here. Look, I just have a lot of nostalgic fondness for Star Trek Enterprise okay? I've been tal...

Source all the tile sets!

Sat, 08 Jul 2017 15:08:40 GMT

There hasn't been too much in the way of Sprytile development because I've been focusing on getting some art created with Sprytile actually finished. The scene I have planned isn't completed yet, but...

Always Be Refactoring

Sun, 11 Jun 2017 16:52:31 GMT

Release 0.4.0 Okay, no, the post title is terrible advice, don't always be refactoring. In the previous blog post, I had mentioned that I wanted to work on Multi-tile Painting for the 0.4.0 release. I...

Paint mode preview and fixes

Tue, 23 May 2017 17:42:35 GMT

Release 0.3.93 - Paint Mode Improvements This minor release focuses on improvements to Sprytile's paint mode. Most notably it enables previews for paint mode, making usage of the paint tool easier. It...

Developing Sprytile

Mon, 22 May 2017 11:05:40 GMT

For the first Sprytile devlog, I'll be talking about what motivated me to create Sprytile and why I'm building it as an opensource tool. If you don't know what Sprytile is yet, it's a set of tools for...