Preferences Window

Language

Select the language displayed in “OPTPiX SpriteStudio” from “English” or “Japanese”.

*This setting will take effect after restarting “OPTPiX SpriteStudio”.

New Project Default Settings

The Project Settings Window opens.

The settings you make in the Project Settings Window are reflected as the default settings for new projects.

Downsize tool buttons.

Change the icon in the toolbar of each window to one size smaller.

*This setting will take effect after restarting “OPTPiX SpriteStudio”.

Sets the control of “Project Window“.

Show confirmation dialog before deleting a file.

Set whether to display a confirmation dialog when deleting ssae, ssce, and ssee files registered in the project.

Clear the check box to suppress the confirmation dialog.

Show confirmation dialog before performing not undoable operation.

Sets the display of a dialog box asking whether to perform an operation that cannot be undone after the operation has been performed.

Clear the check box to suppress the confirmation dialog.

Add dependent cellmaps to the project automatically.

When adding ssae or ssee to a project, if the referenced ssce does not exist, it automatically adds the referenced ssce to sspj.

Create a folder for new project.

When you create a new project (sspj), you also create a folder and create sspj in it.

The folder name is the same as the file name in sspj.

Sets the control of “Cell List Window“.

This item is reflected to the Cell List Window at the same time as setting.

Item height

Specifies the display height of the Cell, in pixels.

Cell tag font size

Specifies the display size of the tag set for the Cell.

Enable jump to a cell which name starts with input key.

If an alphanumeric key is entered while the cell list window is selected, the cursor moves to the cell where the first character of the entry key matches the first character of the cell name.

For example, if you enter a while there is a Cell with the cell name “arm”, it will move to the Cell “arm” field.

Sync time slider while playing.

The time slider moves in sync with the animation playback.

On low-spec PCs or animations that use a lot of Null Part, be aware that SpriteStudio’s own display processing may be slowed by the settings.

Copy and paste keyframes inside folded children.

When you use the copy/paste function, you also set whether the copy/paste function affects the keys of collapsed Child Part.

When you copy and paste keys from a Part that has a parent-child relationship in the Frame Controls window, sets whether the copy and paste includes keys from collapsed Child Parts.

Expand attribute line of active part only.

Expands only the attributes of the active Part and collapses the attributes of other Parts when you click in the Frame Controls Window.

The active Part is the Part with the cursor in the Part selection area of the Frame Control Window.

Click to collapse all parts attributes.

Rearrange start/end frame when total frames are changed.

Adjust the start and end frame values when you change the total number of frames, insert frames, or delete frames.

Select invisible parts by checking Hide attribute.

Sets whether to include hidden Part when selecting ranges in the Layout Window.

Tree position where parts add by dropping cell.

Sets the position to add the Part.

Applies when adding Normal, Null, Effects, and Instance Part.
The active Part is the Part with the cursor in the Frame Control Window.

• Next to active part
• Top child of active part
• Bottom child of active part
• Top sibling of active part
• Bottom sibling of active part

Check sync handles by default

Sets whether to check “Sync left/right handles” when Bezier or Hermite is selected by interpolation type.

Default curve handle length

Lets you specify an initial value for the length of the operation handle displayed when the interpolation type is Bezier or Hermite.

Set default keys for all animations in a file when you add/duplicate a part.

Adding parts to animation data also adds parts to each animation data in the same ssae. If checked, sets a default key at frame 0 of the added part for inactive animation data.

For Part added by drag and drop from the Cell List Window, the “Reference Cell” attribute is also set to the respective animation data.

The attributes contained in the default keys can be set with the “Attributes created when creating a key for each part:” in the “misc” of the “Project Settings Window”.

Log command history.

Prints SpriteStudio operations to a log file (SpriteStudio.log).

The operation history is printed in the log file as follows:.
1111/11/11 12:00:00 [INF] [cmd] Options [target] [object]

Use image loader Ver.1.5.

This item allows you to change the image loader. Uncheck to switch to the old image loader.

Please refer to the following link for the difference between image loaders.

• How to change the display if part of the display image becomes transparent when the psd file is imported

GUI draw method

A feature for Windows that switches SpriteStudio drawing settings.Used when an animation display error or an error occurs in SpriteStudio. Changing this setting may correct the problem.

• Use DirectX Hardware
• Use DirectX Software
  • Use Direct2D
• Use GDI+