Napoleon's Sprite Sheet Editor Portable

Made as the portable counterpart of Napoleon's Sprite Sheet Editor, Napoleon's Sprite Sheet Editor Portable is a small-sized application that facilitates a user-friendly environment for creating sprite sheets from existing sheets or frames. It features merging and splitting tools, in addition to tiling testing and animation preview.

The interface consists of a standard window split into four panes for separately combining and cutting sprites, previewing animations, as well as for performing tiling tests to preview the tiling on maps.

It's possible to open as many common files as you want to take into account for the sheet merging operation. They can be re-arranged in an order in the task list. Moreover, you can set the row and frame count, along with the frame size. The result can be saved as a BMP, PNG or JPEG file.

When it comes to sprite splitting, it's possible to view and edit the frame count, height and width, image color, row count, output format, source offset and spacing. Plus, you can replace the dialog color with anything else from the color spectrum. Besides previewing the animation, Napoleon's Sprite Sheet Editor gives you the possibility to run the tiling test by selecting a layer.

Although the program is considered to be portable, it's not standalone. .NET Framework must be installed on the PC to be able to deploy it. However, it can be stored on a USB flash drive and directly launched on any PC which has this particular edition of Microsoft's platform. It doesn't create files on the disk without your permission, nor does it integrate new entries into your system registry.

It worked smoothly in our tests and remained stable throughout its runtime, without causing the operating system to hang, crash or indicate errors. Although it hasn't been updated for a while, we haven't encountered compatibility issues on later Windows editions.

Taking everything into account, Napoleon's Sprite Sheet Editor Portable delivers a convenient solution for putting together sprite sheets. Plus, it's freeware.