Krystle Designs

Welcome to Krystle Designs and the accompanying software - Krystle Designs Sprite Manager for the ZX Spectrum Next!

A native suite of design editors to create sprites and tiles, tilemaps, fonts, palettes and screens for your software creation.

Within a single project, you can create a bank of sprites, up to four banks of tiles, up to four tilemaps (used in isolation or to create a composite tilemap), a custom font, up to ten palettes within a single bank and finally you design your own screens.

Unique features include:

- global fill within the Sprite Editor for rapid colour changes.
- create a composite tilemap in a full screen mode.
- switch seamlessly between editors - see your sprite/tile updates instantly on your tilemaps! See font changes instantly! See palette changes instantly!
- inverse your font! Create cool font effects with the OVER 1 command. (Check out the Inverse Font Demo in the Examples folder.)
- create up to ten palettes to be used for any layer or sprite layer. (Check out the Dungeon Palette Demo in the Examples folder.)
- select Priority Bits for your colours to create interesting effects with how tiles and sprites interact with each other!
- new Screen Editor to create your screens. 

V1.00 was originally released 16 Mar 2022. V2.00 has been released almost a year later on the 15 Mar 2023. Extensive testing has been completed, however - as with all things - some bugs may have slipped through the cracks. Please report any issues to me and I'll endeavour to eliminate any bugs found and update the files held here.

Whilst Krystle Designs is free and free for use in any way you like - please consider funding my coffee habit to spur me on to complete other future projects! Either through this site or by using the QR code found in the software itself.

I would be most grateful if you could credit Krystle Designs if used in your own creations and would be extra grateful if any finished works could be sent on to me - I love seeing other peoples' projects!

Finally - I hope you find Krystle Designs incredibly useful and aids you in your future design endeavours!

Enjoy!

******New!****** (as of 12 Nov 24)

Welcome to Krystle Designs Sprite Manager! (KDSM) This is a standalone companion application that compliments Krystle Designs, but is not integrated with Krystle Designs. 

KDSM has 20 bank slots ready for you to insert your sprite files and allows you to reorganise your existing sprite files and/or allows you to create a new sprite file from your existing sprite files. (See pictures) To use, place your sprite files into the Banks folder and rename SP0.spr, SP1.spr, SP2.spr etc (up to SP19.spr). Once you have finished rearranging your sprite file, copy and paste out of the folder to wherever you need it to go.

KDSM has functions that allow you to save your sprite file (note these are saved individually!), load your sprite file (to override any current changes that have not yet been saved), copy and paste a sprite bank, erase a sprite bank (sets all sprites to the default global transparent colour) and to apply or remove a grid for easy referencing.

I have tested this myself with my files and I believe I've eliminated all bugs, but of course - any issues let me know!

Minimum Requirements: 

ZX Spectrum Next/N-Go/Emulator with at least 1Mb. 
NextZXOS 2.06N (although almost certain to work fine on 2.06H). 
NextZXOS 2.09 - fastest on this version. 

Firmware 1.3 Core 3.01.08
***Mouse required throughout. ***

Downloadables:

Krystle Designs Manual V2

Krystle Designs V2 rar/zip file. Extract on to your SD Card. 

Krystle Designs Sprite Manager V1.0 rar/zip. Extract on to your SD Card.

Note that any previous projects created will missing a .sl2 file within the project folder. I have included a Px_Screen.sl2 file within the Resource folder - just change 'x' to the project number that you wish to load using V2 of Krystle Designs.