--- title: Make Your Aseprite Drawings Behave Like Cloth | daily.dev description: Heos Cloth is a Lua-scripted plugin for Aseprite that simulates cloth physics directly inside the pixel art editor. Artists draw a flat fabric shape, choose an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-aseprite-drawings-behave-like-cloth-f4qryaxpu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Make Your Aseprite Drawings Behave Like Cloth | daily.dev og:description: Heos Cloth is a Lua-scripted plugin for Aseprite that simulates cloth physics directly inside the pixel art editor. Artists draw a flat fabric shape, choose an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-aseprite-drawings-behave-like-cloth-f4qryaxpu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/f4QRYaxPU.png og:image:alt: Make Your Aseprite Drawings Behave Like Cloth og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Make Your Aseprite Drawings Behave Like Cloth **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Heos Cloth is a Lua-scripted plugin for Aseprite that simulates cloth physics directly inside the pixel art editor. Artists draw a flat fabric shape, choose an anchor point (edges, corners, custom pins, or free-fall), pick a preset like flag, bedsheet, cape, or curtain, then adjust stiffness, wind, shading, and damage timing before running the simulation to generate a frame-by-frame animation. It handles stretching, folding, twisting, collisions, shading, and damage as one process, though it only works within Aseprite and not as a standalone tool. The developer notes it behaves as expected about 80% of the time. It requires Aseprite 1.3.x or later and RGB color mode; indexed-color sprites are not supported. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What version of Aseprite do I need to use the Heos Cloth plugin? Heos Cloth requires Aseprite version 1.3.x or later and only works with sprites in RGB color mode. Indexed-color sprites are not supported. The plugin runs as a Lua script inside Aseprite and cannot be used as a standalone application or in other software. _Pixel artists tracking Aseprite plugin compatibility follow tool updates like this on daily.dev._ ### How does the Heos Cloth Aseprite plugin simulate fabric animation? It lets artists draw a flat fabric shape across line, color, and shading layers, then choose an anchor (edges, corners, custom magenta pins, or free-fall) and a preset such as flag, bedsheet, cape, curtain, or burning flag. Running the simulation generates a frame-by-frame animation on a dedicated layer, handling stretching, folding, twisting, collisions, shading, and damage automatically. The developer says it behaves as expected about 80% of the time. _Game artists exploring animation tooling workflows like this compare plugin options on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Get This Comprehensive Blender Cloth Creation Add-On](https://daily.dev/posts/get-this-comprehensive-blender-cloth-creation-add-on-slmzeiowp) · 80 LEVEL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Neat Cloth Simulation Made for Co-Op Wizard Horror Game](https://daily.dev/posts/neat-cloth-simulation-made-for-co-op-wizard-horror-game-eryporxoo) · 80 LEVEL · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#lua](https://daily.dev/tags/lua) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-aseprite-drawings-behave-like-cloth-f4qryaxpu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Make Your Aseprite Drawings Behave Like Cloth","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-aseprite-drawings-behave-like-cloth-f4qryaxpu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-aseprite-drawings-behave-like-cloth-f4qryaxpu"},"datePublished":"2026-09-03T13:16:13.812Z","dateModified":"2026-09-03T13:43:26.200Z","description":"Heos Cloth is a Lua-scripted plugin for Aseprite that simulates cloth physics directly inside the pixel art editor. 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