Aseprite v1.3

Welcome Asepriters! Today we are finally releasing Aseprite v1.3 as the stable version replacing the previous v1.2.40. It is already live on Steam and all our platforms.

If you were already using v1.3 beta or a release candidate, you can check out the release notes just to check the latest fixes/features. If you came from v1.2, we recommend you to check out the new features in this post.

What’s new

The main new feature on Aseprite v1.3 are tilemap layers:

A summary of other minor features you can find in v1.3 from v1.2:

• Dark theme

• Skew transformation

• Text fields for the transformation

• Resize tags dragging borders

• Repeat field for tags

• Pick colors from the desktop

• Z-index to re-order layers in specific frames

• New mouse/pen stabilizer

• Global user data to sprites

• Ctrl+Shift+Drag mouse Change brush size + drag values customization from Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Drag Value

• Shift+F7: Hide other layers on Preview window

• Space+X/Space+H (flip horizontally), Space+Y/Space+V (flip vertically), Space+D (flip diagonally), Space+R (rotate): Flip/rotate custom brushes or tiles

• New scripting capabilities like the canvas widget and tabs

More information in our blog post