Apart from fixing a number of issues in Tiled 1.11, this release adds support for loading Aseprite images, brings a few scripting API additions as well as a small AutoMapping improvement.

Aseprite Image Support

Tiled now supports loading Aseprite images directly. Aseprite is a popular editor for pixel art. This means you can now use .ase / .aseprite files in your tilesets, without needing to export them to PNG or other common formats first.

This is made possible by qaseprite, a new Qt image format plugin that loads Aseprite images based on the libraries provided by the Aseprite project.

Of course exporting your images may still be necessary for your game engine or other tools, but in some cases even that can be avoided, for example using MonoGame.Aseprite, Unity aseprite-importer or Godot Aseprite Wizard. For now it remains to be seen how such importers can be used alongside the various Tiled support libraries for these frameworks.

AutoMapping Improvement

The AutoMapping feature now ignores rules with empty input or output regions. This is especially useful while setting up rules, since incomplete rules that did not have their inputs defined yet would previously cause the output to be applied everywhere at an offset.

Changelog

All changes in this release are listed below:

• Releases now ship with support for loading Aseprite images (#4109)
• Scripting: Added FileFormat.nameFilter
• Scripting: Added MapEditor.currentBrushChanged signal
• Scripting: Added tiled.cursor to create mouse cursor values
• Scripting: Added Tileset.transformationFlags (#3753)
• Scripting: Added Dialog.addRadioButtonGroup for selecting one of a list of mutually exclusive options (#4107)
• Scripting: Made currentWangSet and currentWangColorIndex properties writeable (#4105)
• AutoMapping: Ignore rules with empty input or output regions (#3834)
• Fixed saving/loading of custom properties set on worlds (#4025)
• Fixed issue with placing tile objects after switching maps (#3497)
• Fixed crash when accessing a world through a symlink (#4042)
• Fixed performance issue when tinting tiles from large tilesets
• Fixed error reporting when exporting on the command-line (by Shuhei Nagasawa, #4015)
• Fixed updating of object label when text changes without changing size
• Fixed minimum value of spinbox in Tile Animation Editor
• Fixed loading of custom property types in tilesets referenced by tile stamps (#4044)
• Fixed compile against Qt 6.8 and updated releases to Qt 6.8.1
• snap: Updated to core24
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.7.13

Thanks!

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