Editing animation frames

All the images that we have used in our game have been provided for us. Some of them were downloaded from StencylForge in earlier chapters and in this chapter, we have imported a single frame for use in an animation (the angel monkey). We have also imported an image strip that contains eight ready-made images, which were converted into a single animation.

In Stencyl, it is possible to create new frames or edit existing frames using the provided graphics package called Pencyl. While Pencyl is a basic graphics creation and editing software package, it has some useful features for making minor edits to an image, and can be used in the event when a more sophisticated graphics package is unavailable. Pencyl is also useful if we just need to make a quick modification to an existing image, without waiting for large, complex graphics software to load.

Let's have a look at how we can edit an existing image with Pencyl!