Record and generate time lapses automatically whilst drawing in the aseprite program.
Below is the time lapse generated, for the creation of the extension icon:
This extension requires Aseprite version 1.3-rc3 or greater to function.
To download the latest beta trough steam, please perform the following steps:
- go to 'Library'
- Right click Aseprite,
- Click 'Properties'
- Go to the 'Betas' menu
- Select 'beta - v1.3 ...' under beta participation.
To enable time lapse recording for a sprite, locate the 'Edit time lapse' command, under the Sprite menu. The sprite must be saved to disk before this is done!
When pressed the following dialog window will appear.
This window displays the current number of frames recorded for the time lapse, and lets one pause and restart recording, as well as generate a sprite, that contains the time lapse.
The extension automatically begins recording sprites on project load, that previously have enabled the time lapse function.
To modify a time lapse, first close the sprite which time lapse needs to be modified.
Then locate a file with the same name as the target sprite, suffixed with '-lapse'. For example 'Sprite.aseprite' will have its modifyable time lapse stored in the 'Sprite-lapse.aseprite' in the same folder.
Perform any modifications to the time lapse, and reopen the target sprite.
The time lapse stored in the extension should now match up with the modified version on disk.
If your sprite (lets say 'Sprite.aseprite') has a time lapse, and you want to move it to a different folder, you also need to move the 'Sprite-lapse.json' as well as the 'Sprite-lapse.aseprite' files along with it, to preserve the time lapse data.
Simmilarly, when renaming a sprite file, (e.g. 'Sprite_A.aseprite' to 'Sprite_B.aseprite'), you need to rename the following files as well:
'Sprite_A-lapse.json' -> 'Sprite_B-lapse.json'
'Sprite_A-lapse.aseprite' -> 'Sprite_B-lapse.aseprite'
Download the 'aselapse.aseprite-extension' file, under Releases.
Double-click and say yes to install.
- Open Aseprite
- Go to Upper Menu "Edit" -> "Preferences"
- Select "Extensions" on left side menu
- Click on "Add Extension" button
- Navigate to your Downloads folder (or where you put "aselapse.aseprite-extension" file which you downloaded earlier)
- Select "aselapse.aseprite-extension" file and click on "OK" button in "Add Extension" window and then click on "OK" in "Extensions" window
- After that, you should be able Open Aselapse in "Sprite -> Edit Time Lapse".
Whenever the extension is run for the first time, some popup windows will appear asking for some permissions. These permissions are needed by the extension, to store the time lapse and some json files on disk.
To disable these popups check the 'Dont't show this specific alert again for this script' (this will need to be done multiple times for every sprite). And press 'Allow Write Access' (or similar).
see LICENSE file.