Changelog

0.2.0 — 2026-08-10

Sprite Studio 0.2 turns the original sprite experiment into a practical local-first game-art workbench.

Added dedicated creation harnesses for characters, creatures, game objects, effects, complete terrain atlases, and coordinated asset packs.
Added /pack, a Packs tab, pack manifests, pack-aware sprite filtering, and pack preview cards.
Added more built-in art directions, including limited-palette, one-bit, isometric pixel, cel-shaded, and painterly fantasy styles.
Added workspace- and chat-level style choices with visual thumbnails.
Terrain generation now creates one complete atlas PNG instead of registering every region as an unrelated sprite.

Rebuilt animation around AI-proposed rigs and masks plus deterministic frame rendering.
Added anatomy-aware movement suggestions when choosing Animate this.
Added explicit stable regions, moving body parts, pivots, overlap, z-order, support phases, and loop-closure requirements.
Added physical motion envelopes using real-world scale, speed, displacement, height, gravity, and contact estimates unless the user supplies their own values.
Added rig-only, recommended AI-polish, and experimental full-redraw finishing modes.
Added regional AI repair for difficult joints and poses while retaining the planned motion and source identity.
Increased automatic frame planning to a configurable 1–32 frame range. Auto remains the default.
Enabled deterministic interpolation by default and replaced generation checkboxes with accessible switches.

Added a full-size sprite viewer with zoom in, zoom out, actual-size reset, wheel zoom, metadata, and reveal-on-disk.
Added playable sprite and animation cards directly inside Markdown chat messages.
Grouped animation frames into one library item with a frame-count badge.
Added clipboard paste, file upload, and drag-and-drop for reference images.
Made focused references chat-local and removable; new chats no longer inherit a forced master image.
Added concurrent per-chat generation with loading indicators in both the chat and sidebar.
Added immediate worktree switching, simplified worktree creation, chat rename dialogs, and hover-to-archive actions.
Added provider capability discovery for models, reasoning levels, image input, multi-reference input, structured output, and transparency.

Fixed pack mosaic images escaping their preview cells and overlapping titles or descriptions.
Fixed cramped sprite cards and unreadable pack filters at narrower window sizes.
Improved dark theme colors, typography, dialog sizing, empty states, and asset browsing.
Added a help dialog that explains every generation control.
Improved deterministic validation for alpha, dimensions, duplicates, alignment, palette, continuity, physical plausibility, and seamless loops.