Black background when creating a new frame in LibreSprite

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#1

Hey,
When I drag any spritesheet into libreSprite and then create a new frame as shown in the lecture, the new frame is created with a black background.
This doesn’t happen when I create a new sprite and add a frame.
Is dragging a spritesheet in changes some setting like sprite color space etc.? or is this a bug in LibreSprite? I haven’t found a place to change that yet.

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#2

Hi there,
Is it possible the sprite sheet you are importing has a black background? What file format is the sheet you are importing?

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#3

That’s what I initially thought, but I tried a few different spritesheets including the one shown in the video and I’m getting the same results.
The file format is PNG and looking at the frame I import it does show that it has an alpha channel

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#4

Is the black erasable? Perhaps this is just your frame background color? What version of libresprite do you have installed?

#5

It is the frame’s background, I’m just not sure where to set it and why it’s set to black when importing a sprite sheet, when I normally create a new canvas its set to transparent.
I’ll check what version I have later, but its probably the latest one, I downloaded it a week ago

#6

In preferences you can update the background colour under Grid & Background. I’m not sure why that would be different after importing a sprite.

#7

Hiya, I don’t know if you solved this but I had the same problem.

What worked for me was changing the background colour to white using the fill tool, then in the onion skin settings I clicked ‘in front of sprite’ and this fixed it.

Hopefully this works for you too :slight_smile:

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#8

Thanks for this.
Worked for me.
Cheers.

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