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Simple Template

Simple Template is suitable for simple projects and will be convenient for novice users. It enables separate toolbars for animation and layers. The set of layers is arbitrary for each frame.

Applicability: use this template in most cases.

Advanced Template

Advanced Template is suitable for making complex animations. It enables Animation Timeline for both animation and layers, and supports linking layers. The set of layers is fixed across all frames.

Applicability: use this template if you're focused on complex animations with a constant number of layers.

Basic font

"Basic Font" template contains 96 frames for creating custom fonts. Each layer is named as the symbol it corresponds to. After drawing all symbols and saving the project as PSP you'll be able to import it from Fonts window.

Applicability: use this template for making fonts.

Interactive Animation Template

Interactive Animation Template is suitable for making interactive animations. It's based on Simple Template. You can create clickable buttons and assign actions for them. Interactive Animations are supported only by Pixel Studio (5.19 and newer) and Pixel Network (5.19 and newer). This feature will not work when saving to GIF or other formats except psp/psx.

Applicability: use this template for publishing funny things in Pixel Network.

How to create a clickable button:

  • create a separate layer and draw a button
  • rename the layer and add meta data to its' name, for example Button [Action=GoTo(5)] [Action=Sound(Pop)].

Meta data format:

  • [TYPE=ACTION(PARAMETER)]

Supported values for TYPE:

  • Button defines a button, the animation will be paused until the user clicks on it.
  • Action works the same as button.
  • Script performs an action without user interaction (can be used to switch frames or play sounds).

Supported values for ACTION:

  • GoTo, PARAMETER should be an integer value that refers to an existing frame index, starting from 0. Example: [Action=GoTo(5)].
  • Sound, PARAMETER is a sound name (available sound names: Cash, Event, Pop, Toggle). Example: [Action=Sound(Pop)].

Planned features:

  • Sound FX library
  • Custom sounds
  • New actions?

You can specify multiple actions for a single button.

To preview interactive animations, press Menu / Preview. You can publish interactive animations in Pixel Network. Special thanks to @Bfx for the original idea. You can also suggest your ideas about new features for Interactive Animation Template in our Discord.