Layouts - Aseprite Script

📐 A Visual Guide Script for Aseprite!

This is a Script made for Aseprite that draws design guides directly onto new layers and adapts to the size of your canvas.

Whether you're a framing enthusiast like me or simply a composition lover, I hope Layouts will help you make perfectly balanced Pixel Art illustrations! ♥

                                                                           

🗝️ Key Features

• 7 Drawing Functions: Crosshair, Frame, Ellipse, Diagonals, Grid, Rule of Thirds, and Golden Ratio.
• Fully Customizable: Every function has its own settings for color, opacity, thickness or line style.
• Non Destructive: Functions are drawn on their own named layers, keeping your work untouched.
• Reset Defaults: Button to restore all settings to their default values with a single click.
  
• Toggle Functions: Button to show or hide all Layouts layers without having to delete them.
• Persistent Settings: Your last configuration is automatically saved and reloaded on next launch.

                                                                           

🗂️ Functions overview

Functions	Description
✛ Crosshair	Draw a centered horizontal and vertical lines with customizable color, thickness and style
▭ Frame	Draw a proportional inner frame with customizable size, color, thickness and style
O Ellipse	Draw a centered inner ellipse with customizable size, color, thickness and style
X Diagonals	Draw a corner to corner diagonal lines with customizable color, thickness and style
# Grid	Draw a regular grid with adjustable size customizable size, color, thickness and style
⅓ Rule of Thirds	Draw the classic 3×3 composition grid with customizable color, thickness and style
φ Golden Ratio	Draw the Golden Ratio Rectangle, Spiral and Circle with customizable color and thickness

                                                                           

⚙️ Setup & Use

1. Download Layouts.lua
2. In Aseprite, go to File → Scripts → Open Scripts Folder
3. Place Layouts.lua into that folder
4. In Aseprite, go to File → Scripts → Rescan Scripts Folder
5. Run it via File → Scripts → Layouts

🔐 First Launch Security: To allow the script to save your settings, check "Give full trust to this script" then click on "Allow read access".
⚠️ Enable/Disable: Each functions have an Enable checkbox at the top of their section, they are not all enabled by default!

                                                                           

📃 License

Layouts is released under the MIT License
No attribution is required but appreciated (@YukiPixels) 

This script is free for both personal and commercial use
But you can tip me to support my work and future updates ♥ 

                                                                           

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