Grid Padding

[Dingus]

Sometimes, when working on sprites I find I need to pad the borders of the sprite, for game engine use, or to more easily distinguish between similar looking sprites.
Using the grid when working on these padded images is almost more confusing then helpful. Is there any possibility of having an optional padding field introduced to the grid settings, to help assist in this kind of workflow?

[3BBU]

EDIT/ASNWER:

I remembered that not a long ago a option of padding was added to the import settings of the spritesheet in Aseprite. If you open your padded file and then choose the padding values during the import (if you have padding on the top and left you can rearrange the import pattern by dragging it).

Didn't quite get the hang of it yet but this approach solves my problem. The other problem that Dingus brought up cannot be solve this way as importing the spritesheet will cut the edges off from the blocks. However this tool I explained eases up Dingus's workflow as he can draw down the paddings by hand and then export the working file as a working spritesheet leaving out the extra space and doodles.

But if I understood correctly, the padding option in the import settings do not set a padding to the edges of the image so maybe just leave the first square row out so you don't have to rearrange the grid manually everytime you export. The padding however helps differentiating the sprites from each other so it would still be nice to see this option in the grid menu as it eases up the workflow and you have the feature implemented already.

Here is my old post that is still accurate as the gridlines itself cannot be altered:

@Dingus "working on these padded images is almost more confusing then helpful."

Dingus probably meant that it's impossible to align the grid against a padded tilesheet. Whatsoever, yes. I agree. This would be really appreciated option even though I understand it might be hard to code and not a priority right now.

However some files provided have the preset padding that cannot be used for clone pattern workflow because there is no way to differentiate the blocks in such a way that they would be in array. I think that I will look into Pro Motion NG if I can do this there but I would really like to do it in aseprite so I might be converting the images "padless" for simpler use.

I don't need the padding but the pictures came to me as a PSD files. I probably can remove the padding quite easily, but it would have been nice to import the layers directly to Aseprite as now my workflow doesn't quite work.

This might be a bad place to put this up but this showed up in google so if you have the same opinion (that this should defenitely be prioritized) leave a comment.

NOTE: This would help a lot when creating a multiple objects with same interiors (grass blocks for example).

(Edit2: Actually now when I think of it this is also possible to achieve easily with padding of "square size / 2" and then aligning the grid according to the half of the square size)