Sprite Mixer

Pixel art can get very intricate, and something unique about it is related to its malleability. A great thing when manipulating pixel art of your own is that you can randomize and combine several such instances, with each resulting image offering a different take on the original art.

That's essentially the goal of sprite combiners, and Sprite Mixer is an intuitive solution in that regard. Users can feed their JPEG and PNG images into the program, which will then be able to randomize them and generate new versions for use in their projects.

Though combining images can be done manually through professional tools, this solution streamlines the process by automatically mixing the provided images, then outputting unique combinations based on that material. Such a tool is, as stated before, best used for pixel art, as the medium affords more cohesion to entwining two separate sprites together.

Users can view and manipulate their sprites in the main menu, where they can change parameters such as position, scale, rotation, and depth. Moving on, the second menu allows you to input image files for your art, for which the software will tell you the number of possible combinations.

The software can randomize and generate new permutations without much of a delay, but users can also do take the manual route. Though you can set the program to generate a number of combinations, therefore automating a good part of the process, you can just as well browse through the elements and pick the best combinations yourself.

The preview window refreshes instantly, and the Demo project does well to outline the program's workflow. For an overall smoother operation, users can tweak the RAM usage, as well as the background and maximum framerate to ensure that the software runs smoothly on their system.

Sprite Mixer offers users an intuitive way to combine their sprites. Having such a program by your side, capable of randomizing assets in this manner, can significantly boost efficiency.