Ability to place text notes in a tile/checker

[ghost]

This may sound silly but I often use Aseprite in tile form say 16 x 16 each tile/checker being some block/tile in game. And I build various textures this way almost like a spritesheet.

The only problem is sometimes I forget why I made a certain texture in a certain way. I can't really document parts of a spritesheet easily.

Would it be possible to be able to add visual text notes on a tile/checker where you can explain to your older self why you did certain things? Kinda like comments in a programming language but for a 2d spritesheet image instead.

Kinda like imagine each grid tile being like an excel cell. You can add notes to a cell so in a similar fashion adding notes to a grid cell/tile/checker. If you change the grid size while working the area marked as a note remains a note.

Moving mouse over the pixel are where the note is will display a tooltip somehow near mouse or some other system.

[oceanhahn]

I would love to see something like this, too. :D

[ghost]

@oceanhahn Glad is not just me :D I don't think there is any 2d image editor that allows you to comment part of a 2d image. IF this is implemented this would be the first program to do this.

[dacap]

😄 I've tagged this issue with slices tag because I think it's related to #721 (each slice might contain user data: comment, color, etc.). Also it might be related to #481, where each tile in each "grid-patch" (and area with a specific grid) could contain a comment/slice.

[ghost]

@dacap I think easiest way to implement this specific system an array of user data objects each one having notes and an x y relative to grid cell location. But if you wanna implement the other system with slices I don't know you need multiple grid systems.

[ghost]

You know better :D

[dacap]

I'm thinking that it looks like several tools (multiple grids #481, rulers #747, and specific regions #30/#721) generates different kind of "slices." For example, a ruler can generate two slices for each side, a grid-region can generate one slice for each tile, and a specific region create just one slice (or two? inside the slice and outside the slice?). I've to think more about how to implement all these features at once.

[ghost]

For the slices one simple idea that comes to mind is simply have the slices as well as their grids based on the main grid. You select select multiple cells/grids and turn them into a slice then you can subdivide them into 0.25 *0.5 1 2 4 (etc) of the main grid . Of course other multiples even entered by hand could work. This way you can build tileset pieces based on your main tileset specs.

[ghost]

Edit: then you overlay the slieces in like a 2 pass system ON top of your drawing canvas. Then when you manipualte the canvas and your mouse is over a sliece then you grab your data from the slice rather than from the canvas.

[oceanhahn]

I was about to make a post suggesting a tool that would allow users to place text notes anywhere on the workspace, in the style of post-it notes. I think Photoshop already has the feature but I cannot remember exactly.

Anyway, I was reminded of this and I thought I would give it a bump. :D

[MatheusPese]

Came here to give a similar suggestion, my idea was to be able to add layers with editable annotations. But this one is even better.