Kenney Studio (beta)
Already announced this before but here's the public beta for Kenney Studio! Kenney Studio will allow me to distribute .ken files with my assets to allow users further customization without the need of expensive software or really any knowledge of graphic design software.
Kenney Studio is completely free but does require the AIR runtime (click, it's free too!)
The beta version includes 4 sample .ken files, no other .ken files are available at this time. Assets made using Kenney Studio can be used in your own projects but please do not distribute them just yet, still have to figure out some licensing terms (don't worry, they'll be there to help you!).
Without further redo,
FAQ
What is Kenney Studio?
A program to open and modify .ken files and export them to .png.
What are .ken files?
Files especially made to work with Kenney Studio that allow easy customization of pre-made assets.
What kind of options does a .ken file include?
Options are tied to the .ken file, every file will have different options. Options can include different shapes, textures, colors and details.
Will we be able to create our own .ken files?
Absolutely, although you gotta give me some time to write the documentation on this.
I just played around with this and it's a lot of fun. Nice work. :)
Just an added note: The square tiles could use options for all four single corners, and also corners only on top or only on the bottom.
And just to reiterate, nice work. :)
You are a mad man... in a good way. Nice job.
I suppose it's not needed since you're meant to edit within this software, but export to .svg would be pretty nice too. I imagine this is not an easy task though.
@Kenney: Any chance you could give some basic hints at modifying and creating .ken files?
Kenney, Will there be any documentation on how to build SWF files in the .ken format?
How many features are AIR exclusive? I'm a little surprised that there isn't an online demo of this (favoring Loading the .ken files with a loader/url-loader and saving with a FileReference).
Yes, I'll be writing documentation on that soon. It's only a few lines of code that are important for Kenney Studio to know what MovieClips can be altered in what way.
The problem lies with loading the .ken files, they include code. So thanks to the Adobe sandbox it won't allow me to load them through loader/url-loader :(
<blockquote> So thanks to the Adobe sandbox it won't allow me to load them through loader/url-loader :(</blockquote>
Even when on the same domain?
When will the current version get an update? Love it but I love updates too :)