Flint Editor

It’s the age in which effects generated on a computer create high-quality, photo-realistic displays of art. These are used in movies and video games alike, taking some time and effort to properly design. As such, Flint Editor comes with the means to help you create your own sprites to use in developing neat effects.

First of all, you need to make sure that your computer is equipped with Adobe AIR to make it function, but also to be able to go through the setup process. On the bright side of things, you’re offered to have the program launched right afterwards to save you some time, without having to go through a system restart.

You get to work in a single window to prevent you from feeling overwhelmed by an abundance of panels. Major functions are found in different tabs, while organized panels make accommodation quite easy. All of these panels are neatly placed so that there’s also enough space for the preview section, which constantly plays the animation based on your settings.

There’s a default effect to help you understand the process, letting you work on existing settings or start from scratch. Render method can either be pixel, bitmap which you load from file, or object display, which can be line, dot, rectangular, and a few more. Each mode comes with a few set of controls.

Depending on render method, various sets of options become available, such as initials and actions. These help define a wide range of motion effects, rotation, special filters, and more. It’s possible to view the corresponding XML source code to inject it in your projects, or save the particle file.

Taking everything into account, Flint Editor can generate neat particle effects to use in your development projects. The design is quite intuitive, with tabbed structure for easy access to functions, which allow you to manipulate the object and its attributes in a wide array of methods.