Live Brush
Live Brush - A Custom Brush Manager for Aseprite
🎨 Revolutionize Your Workflow with Live Brush! 🎨 Tired of being limited to a single custom brush in Aseprite? Live Brush is here to take your pixel art experience to the next level!
What is Live Brush?
Live Brush is an Aseprite extension that supercharges your custom brush workflow by allowing you to:
- Save multiple custom brushes into organized brush sets.
- Easily switch between brushes with a single click.
- Adjust brush properties on the fly, including size, rotation, and flipping.
- Add variety with randomized transformations for creative freedom!
Key Features
✨ Brush Set Management
- Save multiple brushes: No more creating a new custom brush every time you switch!
- Easy access: Quickly switch brushes from your brush set with a hotkey.
✨ Flexible Brush Creation
Create brush sets in three intuitive ways:
- Grid Tiles: Select an area and divide it into grid-sized brushes, perfect for tilesets.
- Separate Selections: Create brushes from multiple distinct selections on your canvas.
- Selected Cels: Select a range of cels in the timeline to define brushes based on your animation frames.
✨ Rotated Set Creation
Easily create rotated sets for your artwork:
- Grid Tiles: Divide a selected area into grid-based rotated sets, ideal for tilesets.
- Separate Selections: Generate rotated sets from multiple distinct selections on your canvas.
- Selected Cels: Rotate images across a range of cels in the timeline, perfect for animation frames.
Use these rotated sets as pre-configured brush sets for seamless workflows!
✨ Transformations
- Manual adjustments: Modify size, rotation, and flipping.
- Randomization: Add randomness to transformations for dynamic and unique results.
✨ Brush Transition Options
Keep your workflow dynamic with multiple transition modes:
- Static: No transition, fixed on the first brush.
- Forward: Loop through brushes sequentially.
- Reverse: Loop through brushes in reverse order.
- Ping-Pong: Cycle forward and backward.
- Random: Randomly picked brush from the set.
Why Use Live Brush?
Whether you’re working on pixel-perfect tilesets, character animations, or unique textures, Live Brush gives you the tools to stay creative and efficient.
How to Use
- Create a Brush Set: Select your preferred method—grid tiles, separate selections, or selected cels.
- Customize Your Brushes: Adjust size, rotation, flipping, or enable randomization.
- Start Drawing: Use your saved brushes on any active sprite file as long as the dialog is open and watch your workflow come to life!
Get Started Now!
Transform your Aseprite workflow with Live Brush!
Feedback & Support
I’d love to hear your thoughts and see how you’re using Live Brush in your projects! Drop a comment or contact me directly for questions, suggestions, or just to share your amazing art.
Take control of your pixel art workflow today with Live Brush!
If you find this tool helpful, I'd really appreciate if you could take a moment to leave a rating. Thanks a lot!
🐛 Bug Reports & Feature Requests
Thank you for using Live Brush for Aseprite! Your feedback helps make this extension better.
If you encounter any bugs or have ideas for new features, please visit our GitHub repository to share your feedback:
Please include details like your Aseprite version, Live Brush version, and Operating System in your report to help us diagnose issues quickly.
Thank you for helping improve Live Brush!
Live Brush Usage Agreement
By downloading or using the Live Brush extension, you agree to the following terms:
- Personal and Professional Use: You may use Live Brush freely for personal, professional, and commercial projects.
- Restrictions:
- You may not re-sell, copy, transfer, or distribute this extension, in whole or in part, without explicit written permission from the creator.
- You may not modify and re-distribute the extension or claim ownership of the extension or any of its parts.
- Liability: The creator of Live Brush is not liable for any damages or data loss resulting from the use of this extension. Use it at your own risk. By using the script included with this file, you understand that you are using it AS IS with no guarantees. Although the extension is not intended to cause harm, no warranty is provided. Please remember to save your work regularly.
- Attribution: If you share content created using Live Brush, attribution is appreciated but not required.
- Modifications: You are free to modify the extension for personal use only. Sharing or distributing modified versions is prohibited.
- License Revisions: Devkidd reserves the right to revise this license as needed. Revisions apply to new downloads or updates only and do not retroactively alter terms for previous users.
Simple Usage License / Rights © Devkidd 2024. All Rights Reserved.
See Also
Purchase
In order to download this tool you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3.75 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- v1.0 - New Rotated Set11 days ago
- v0.1.4 - Minor Updates and Bugfixes15 days ago
- v0.1.3 - Minor Updates and Bugfixes16 days ago
Comments
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super stoked! got both draw and brush. The integrated and solid UI is appreciated and looks great.
I can't seem to get the brush to automatically change to other brushes in the set unless I manually press the next button on the static setting. So I know they registered just fine, just always stays on the first of the set.
oh, and either one or the other extension will appear in the menu, not both at once, whichever i added last, even though they both work and seem to be installed.
Hi TLiaD, thank you for the support and feedback
For transitioning of the brushes from the set, you can choose the 'forward' instead of 'static' in the dropdown so that it will automatically iterate to the set of brushes going forward. The static is for you to manually switch the brushes, you may also use a hotkey 'space q' or 'space w' for previous and next button.
Regarding the extension not appearing both in the menu, ill have to check on that why it wont appear. But for now, please make use of the hotkey(Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) to open both.
Space L for Live Brush
Ctrl L for Live Draw
Please let me know if that helps.
Thanks for the cheat sheet! Everything is working perfect with the updated version too (1.4). (In case it helps to know, but none of the transitions were working for me in the last build (1.3), forward, backward, etc., it just stayed on the first brush unless I used the buttons with the static option. I didn't try the hotkeys however, so I'm not sure about that. )
-Would it be possible to add the option to weight brushes in transitions? Like random brush transitions could be set for two brushes to appear at a 2 to 1 ratio or 3 brushes that appear at a 10%/40%/50% ratio?
-Is there a way that this could work with the spray brush? I know that it's been tried but the only solution has been by using an auto clicker app and standard brush.
These extensions are awesome! You and devs like Carbs Code make Aseprite the GoaT that it is! Thanks!
Hey TLiad, thank you so much for your feedback and kind words—it means a lot! I'm glad that everything is working perfectly with version 1.4. 😊
Regarding version 1.3, I appreciate the heads-up about the transitions not working as expected. It's great to know that the static option worked, but I'll make a note to double-check those features in case they need further tweaking.
Now to your suggestions:
Thanks again for your thoughtful suggestions and support. It’s feedback like yours that keeps me motivated to improve these tools! And shoutout to Carbs Code for all their incredible contributions as well😊
Got into the same problem. And I figured out that restart Aseprite will fix it
Just bought Live Draw-- what a brilliant product! Look forward to trying it out as soon as possible! (Downloaded LiveBrush too..)
Thank you for the support. excited to see your artworks soon !