Free C++ sprite editor

• PNG
• BMP
• JPEG XL
• OpenRaster ORA
• RPGMaker 2000/2003 XYZ
• Atrophy Engine AETEX (tga/dds)
• Wii TPL*
• DDS* (DXT1, DXT2/3, DXT4/5)
• Cave Story engine PBM
• VTF* (BGRA, BGR, DXT1, DXT2/3, DXT4/5)
• NES (dumps CHR-ROM)
• Mario Paint save file (SRM)
• SR8
• PXM Cave Story Map File
• LMU RPGMaker2000/3 Map File
• all other formats supported by SDL2_Image

* - not all subformats are currently implemented

• PNG
• JPEG XL
• OpenRaster ORA
• RPGMaker 2000/2003 XYZ
• BMP
• Cave Story engine PBM
• PXM Cave Story Map File
• PSP Pixel Studio Project File
• C header (as uint8_t array)
• Python file (as [R,G,B,A] np.array)
• HTML document (inline Base64 image)

You can grab a pre-built binary from the latest CI artifacts: https://nightly.link/counter185/voidsprite/workflows/msbuild/main

For Windows, get the voidsprite-build.zip file.

For Linux, get the voidsprite-build-linux-flatpak-x86_64.zip file; this requires Flatpak to be installed. You can also try the portable binary from voidsprite-build-linux.zip, but this might not work on all systems.

1. Go to freesprite/devlibs and extract devlibs.7z to the current directory (right click devlibs.7z > Extract here).
2. Go back to the repository root and run the copy_devlibs.bat script
3. Open freesprite.sln with Visual Studio and build/run like any other C++ program

1. Install the dependencies and their respective development packages: sdl2, sdl2_ttf, sdl2_image, libpng, pugixml, zlib, liblcf, libjxl, libhwy
   • Some dependencies (libpng, pugixml, zlib, liblcf) will be automatically downloaded and built during the build step if not installed - don't worry if your distro does not package them.
   • GCC/G++ 13 or later is required
2. Install meson (note that version 0.62.2 or higher is required; Ubuntu 22.04 users will want to install a newer version directly from pip with pip3 install --user meson)
3. Run ./linux_build.sh
   • You can also pass the --run flag to automatically run the built binary, the --global flag to install to /usr/local, and --portable to generate a portable build (assets stored in the same directory as the executable).
   • If you installed a separate version of GCC to use alongside your system install, you can specify a different compiler by setting the CC and CXX variables while calling linux_build.sh, e.g. CC=gcc-13 CXX=g++-13 ./linux_build.sh

By default, the generated output files will be placed in /tmp/voidsprite. When --global is passed, they will be installed to /usr/local instead.

You can also build the program as a Flatpak, see Flatpak README.

You may find the Official Discord server here.

Itch.io page

BlueSky page

voidsprite is licensed under GPLv2.

Licenses for other libraries and fonts used in voidsprite can be found in the OPEN_SOURCE_LICENSES directory