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Hello! No worries my friend :D So the reason this error would pop up is if you are either on the home screen OR if there is currently no sprite. To set a camera layer youll have to click on a layer that has a rectangle for the camera to use, like this red rectangle shown at 1:44. 

Just keep in mind that the rectangle can move around to follow the action it currently has to stay the same shape  and sizd for it to work correctly though out the animation. (Though this has nothing to do with that error thoguh!)

Excellent! You are very welcome! Happy to get that all sorted :D Ended up doing the update to all of my tools just incase any others had the same issue ha

Thanks again for bring this to my attention! Let me know if you need anything in the future my friend :) Happy pixeling!!

Just uploaded a potential fix for this in 4.0.1 let me know if it clears this up! (fingers crossed!)

Oh my, this was  unexpected indeed XD Really fun though and like you said never would have thought to draw a dwarven plumber! Gives me ideas about what a game might look like with this character, fighting off broken pipes or rats and leveling up skills to go deeper in to the dark sewers.

Oh also a small tip for better visibility when posting btw! When you exporting via file>export setting it to 300-400% makes a larger image but keeps the pixel goodness as it scales everything up!

Thanks for sharing this!

Oh hey man! Hmm that is odd, I can def take a look at this today because ideally the ui should always be clean and responsive. I wonder if something had changed with how the rendering is handled either by the operating system or graphics library. I'll do some poking and put out a small patch for this asap for this :)

By chance are you on windows 11? I actually do think I saw this happen once when I had on my newer laptop so it might be something that needs a little forced refresh now in the tool backend. If so should be a pretty easy fix to get things back in order.

Appreciate the replies and all the info btw!

Ayeee Thanks man! Glad to see you checking out another tool of mine and getting some insperati.... INKsperation hahaha Would love to see some of these npcs you've been creating if you would like to share them! Feel free to post in the comments here :D

Def one of my favorite things about this project is you see things you never think to draw, leads to some very wacky and playful ideas.

Much love dude!

Hmm strange! How did you install the extension? Sounds like you might have tried placing in script folder but it is actually just a mater of double clicking on the extension file :)

See the installing part in the video below! Let me know if this works or not! (Skip to 40 secs in if it doesnt automaticly)

Alternatively you can also navigate to Edit>Preferences>Extensions and press add extension then navating to where tou downloaded the tool :) 

Again let me know if this helps! :D

Danggggg dude this is so good! Amazing work! Edit: woah the speed paint came out incredible too, love seeing the character come to life ha

Oh no worries at all! I was like hmm that is odd it should be good to go haha  Excellent though glad that that will be quite handy for you :) It def seems useful xD Thank you again for all your responces!

Heyo Again xD Hmm out of curiosity which version of color swap do you currently have? Selection of cels was added in 1.1.0 which should have the functionality your mentioning! (1.1.1 is currently the most up to date though too) but yee just need to check the checkbox option to swap / export selected cels. This should only select the currently selected cels instead of everything on the layers.

This short shows the cel selection stuff! Though if its not this let me know if im misunderstanding ha Let me know either way though because it should be working haha :)

On the undos I def get that xD Technically each color swap is doing a bunch behind the scenes in a single undo action. It might be possible to add an undo button to the ui which would pull back the last group of swaps but not sure if it could tie in to the ctrl + z compleatly but yeah might be able to figured something out to make that less of a pain!

Also thank you for taking the time to provide all your feedback and your lengthy messages :) and yeeeeee thank you for spreading the word!!

Oh! Intresting Ill have to take a peek at the minimize to see if did anything diffrent on this tool. Usually i bring the minimize system that ive create along in most of my tools but it still requires some set up to make sure its working corectly ha

Yeee ofcourse! Always happy to try and improve and add new features that are helpful 😀

Also thank you so much again for your comments and bringing these things up too :D

Hello there! Ofcourse happy to help :) Hmm the first thing i think of is maybe the last cel didnt have the effect applied to it before tweening? Another thing to check is to make sure its not compleatly empty as it wont have any keyframe to tween to.

Is there any chance youd be able to upload a small screen capture so I can see what is happening?

I've added both feature requests to the issues / feature request page, slated for update v1.2.0! You can see all current issues / feature requests for this mile stone here:
https://github.com/CarbsCode/CarbsAsepriteExtensions/milestone/10

Oh absolutely! Your quite welcome! Ah yes that does make sense now and why you asked about it xD Sounds like your using it as intended with the color sets! One of the main ideas was to have a way to be able to come back to a previously created color set, espcially when your likely to use it again in the future :)

I could def look in to adding additional hotkeys, we're you thinking having a button for each swap column? Or perhaps swapping between diffrent color sets all together? Both def could be help full ha

Some really good ideas actually! Ill make sure to get these on the feature request tracker so I can update you on progress when I start implementing them :) (See below edit)

Thank you again for all the praise! This project took alot of time to get working just right so i def appreciate seeing that its being so helpful!

Edit:

I've created an feature request for the hotkey additions and got some initial thoughts out over on the issues / feature request page:

https://github.com/CarbsCode/CarbsAsepriteExtensions/issues/42

Ayeeee thank you so much for your kind words! OOO yes being able to have it color swap over all open files would be great actually. Currently it does the current file but i can def take a look at adding support for multiple files :) Ill add this functionality to a feature request for the next update.

A little workaround to do this currently would be to add each of your sheets to a new layer and then export as it can work though multiple layers at a time. This should work best if your sheets are the same size ofcourse but when I implement multiple files they could be diffrent for sure.

Thank you again for your support on my tools and I very happy to see your comment on this!

Edit:

I've created a feature request for multifile support which would end up being slated for Color Swap v1.2.0 once implemented :D Any progress can be tracked over on the issues/feature request page:
https://github.com/CarbsCode/CarbsAsepriteExtensions/issues/41

Most excellent! Yeah one of the reasons I ended up making this tool is because myself and others in the community have been wanting to pop out the palette so this was my solution to not being able to do so! Thank you so much for your kind words :D Yeee It def would be nice to see some promotion here on itch haha but hey if you got some friends that would like this feature please let them know about my tools that would be so helpful and hugely appreciate as I am trying to grow and continue what I do :D Please let me know if you need any help with this or if you have any questions at all always happy to help :3 

Thank you again for your comment and happy pixeling my friend!

PS. Please consider giving the tool a rating as this does also help a ton, again thank you so much for your support :D

Good morning! Hmm would you be able to record or send some screenshots of whats happening? I do know that there is some issues if the dialog windows are overlaping, this is an issue with how input is handled in aseprite so def make sure the popout window is not overlaping the main dialog 😀 

I'm not sure if it lets you post video here but that would be quite helpful to debug for sure. You can post video and screen shots in a bug report here though, id love to see what you have happening!

https://github.com/CarbsCode/CarbsAsepriteExtensions/issues

This might be an issue that is part of aseprite its self though as I have found that if you have multiple dialogs one over the other it does at strangely for sure.

I even reported a bug with aseprite while working on this infact xD Is this maybe what is happening for you?

https://github.com/aseprite/api/issues/154

Again it seems to be an issue with overlapping dialogs if so! But yes please let me know either way I would love to fix if its something on my end ofcourse 😀

Ofcourse! Im always working on these tools :) Are you looking for any specific features to be added? I pride myself in when I release any tools and make sure they are the best they can be when I release which also means testing things out a ton xD

This has been implemented in to Color Swap 1.1.0 and is now in the public release :)

Found this project via JustCovino over on twitch :) This seems very useful for getting in to multiplayer :D Thank you so much for making this!

oh! Hmm I'll send ya a message on bsky so I can see what you have set up! :)

Edit:  Talked with Amphibian in dms turns out that vcam groups is not implemented. I will have to patch this up for the next update. The issue was that they had layers in group which seems to break things.

Looking forward to adding support for this :)

Oooo yasss thank you thank you! So glad that its helping you :) Popout Pallete was a fun one to work on. I def have some planned updates as well for it at some point too xD

Also thanks for all your replies too! Lovely to chat with ya!

Hahaha we might be hanging out with the same Asepriters xD Being on the wrong layer is a very common oof followed by much erassing and undoing ha

Right? Aseprite its self is already super amazing but the fact we can addon to it to make specific helper things is super helpful!

Omg which one have you checked out? Glad to hear its been helpful either way! Always appreciate seeing people using them :D

Oh dang I had worked on this same idea a while back but never released it xD Seems ya beat me too it! Nicely done :D Great minds think alike I suppose 😆 

Is it okay that I still work on and release my version in the future? Don't want to feel like a copy cat or anything!

Oh also! Welcome in to the world of aseprite scripting btw! :D Is nice to meet youuuu!

Oooo another great track from FableFly! Love your musics :D

Excellent! Love to hear this :D Stay organized my friend!

Thank you! I did have plans to add a simplified version of my tween tool in this in an update down the line, I think I even mentioned this in the video overview for this one.

I do have my previously released tools that may pair up nicely with this in the meantime though links below. 😀

I agree it would be awesome to have the camera and backgrounds be more reactive including paralax along with camera movement (like zooming in and out as well) so I'll see what i can do for the next version for sure! :D

The Tween Machine:

https://carbscode.itch.io/the-tween-machine

BG-Auto Scroll Toolbar:

https://carbscode.itch.io/bg-auto-scroll-toolbar

Part one of this has been fixed up and should be available once I push out update 1.1.0 :)

Details here!
https://github.com/CarbsCode/CarbsAsepriteExtensions/issues/27

Good morning! Thank you for checking out Color Swap and for the kind words :)

Oh I think I see what you mean when trying to use a selection of colors and setting it to the A column. I had disabled the A /all buton when the export options are disabled to prevent confusion because it would swap A to B and then proceed to C and so on which would not have the orignal colors (effectively doing extra work with no output). Though it seems I over looked the setting of the colors on the A(all) column by disabling that button!

I'll look in to patching that up and making so the all could be set when using the set colors functionality. In the meantime a quick work around is to check the enable export check box and it will let you click on the all column to set colors like the others (when set colors from selection is enabled ofcourse)

Also i will look in to adding a selection of frames or cels to the list as well. If you're able to get to it before I am would you be able to fill in a feature request on the issues page so I can keep track and discuss more there?

https://github.com/CarbsCode/CarbsAsepriteExtensions/issues

Likewise a bug report for the for mentioned issue as well! Would be very helpful to keep track of things and discuss any progress on them 😀

Thank you again for checking out my tools!

Much love and happy pixeling!

Really like this idea! Such a unique way of showing where your going and where you've been in a fun and playful way :)

Ayeee Thank you for your kind words Admurin! Very excited to see you integrate this tool, you do have a TON of projects hahahaha

Oh! That's awesome! That def does sound like a great way to use this tool. Keeping related docs together and working on them at the same time :D

I miss my days of making RPG Maker 2000 (I think it was) little projects. I never did much with them but super fun to make towns and mess with the combat particle effects haha

Thank you so much for your kind words! You are quite welcome and I'm glad your enjoying this tool! Let me know if you have any troubles or questions at all!

Also got me curious,  what sort of game dev projects your working on? 😀 

Excellent!! Can't wait to see what you think 😀 Hopefully it's very helpful for youuuu!

Oh heck yeah Pen! Even more epic fight sequences when?! Would love to see your amazing animations and what you could do with a movable camera angle! Bring the extra extra juice 😆 

I see the confusion, it looks like the extension is inside of a ziped up file that is uploaded like zipfile>extension instead of just being the standalong extension file like the user might be use to seeing! I was very confused how this might go wrong but yup that makes sense now hahaha Fair enough! XD 

Great job on this tool btw ! Also hope your move went well , always a pain moving ha😀 😆 

oh oh oh I see now!! I just downloaded to see how the file is uploaded. It's an extension inside of a zip, I thought it was just the extension file that was uploaded.

Yup I see it now, you would have to take the ".asepeite-extension" file out of the zip that it is in to then run the extension. I see where the confusion is haha my mistake!

Oh that is strange! You shouldn't need to extract anything if it's an extension 🤔 unless you mean the install within asepeite itself?

Like this! An example of me installing an extension.

 Either way glad you got it working! Sometimes it can be confusing 😆 Happy to help though!!!

I just took a look at the other tool you mentioned and posted a reply to your comment to help out! Hopefully the comment I posted  helps you get that one installed too as well! :D Happy pixeling!

Looks like this is an extension :) You dont place it in the scripts folder you instead do one of the following:

1)double click the aseprite extension file provided to install.

2)open aseprite and drop the file provided in to asepeite  to install

3)install by opening the preference menu located under edit>prefernces> Extensions click on the button to install the extension and navigate to where you've downloaded it 😀

Hopefully this helps!!

Just a reminder that extensions are installed like this where as scripts are usually dropped in the folder like you were saying. Extensions are the way to go as they are easier to manage as the user, I still have a few of mine I need to convert to extension though xD But yes just be sure to look if it's a script or an extension is all and you should ne good to go! :D