Free for Everyone, AI Skills in Every Importer & Discord

November made zStudio free. There are no plans or tiers any more: the full editor, PSD import, scene validation, copying between scenes, the MCP server, skill libraries and local image models are all free to download and use, with no account and no watermark. The only thing for sale is AI credits, which pay for zStudio Cloud: the built-in AI Chat and cloud image models with transparent backgrounds. Credits never expire. In the built-in AI Chat you can now choose the model, and you pay per step for what each step actually uses; current prices are shown live on the Pricing page. Windows builds are back, starting with v2.5.8, so all three platforms are on the same version again. The editor gained User Components: under Components → Add/Remove… you can add your own scenes, a scene folder or a folder of scenes to the Components menu, and pasted components get unique template and instance names so they never clash with what is already in your scene. Recent scenes can be removed from the welcome screen, and new buttons open an image's file, the scene's folder or a Spine JSON file in Finder or Explorer. Grid lines now adjust their colour to stand out against whatever stage background you choose. AI tools connected over MCP can capture a small image of the stage to check their work, find where a nested element really ends up on screen, and name images and Spines as they import them, and the AI Chat and image model lists show live credit prices. The editor dropped GSAP in favour of its own lightweight tween engine, the space shooter example got new artwork, and the space shooter and wild west examples now use the Lilita One and Nunito fonts. On the runtime side, every zImporter package now ships AI skills in its skills/ folder, covering setup, components, responsive layout, and animation and spawning, so AI coding tools write correct zImporter code. Add the folder in zStudio under Help → AI Skill Libraries, or point any AI tool at node_modules/<package>/skills/. The website gained a full zImporter Guide with examples for Pixi.js, Phaser and HTML. The Pixi.js and Phaser importers dropped their unused GSAP dependency for smaller installs, zImporter_PIXI7 fixed the ZNineSlice parameter order, and zImporter_PIXI8 now carries an MIT licence. Finally, zStudio has a community: the new Discord server is linked from the website and from every importer's README.