Pixi is an cross-platform open-source pixel art editor and animation editor written in Zig.
Features planned for 0.1
- [x] Typical pixel art operations. (draw, erase, color select)
- [x] Create animations and preview easily, edit directly on the preview.
- [x] View previous and next frames of the animation.
- [x] Set sprite origins for drawing sprites easily in game frameworks.
- [x] Import and slice existing .png spritesheets.
- [x] Intuitive and customizeable user interface.
- [x] Sprite packing
User Interface
- The user interface is driven by Dear Imgui which should be familiar to many.
- The general layout takes many ideas from VSCode, as well as general project setup using folders.
Planned Features
- Export/import options.
- Possibly .pyxel and .asesprite import
- Export to .zig to directly use in Zig frameworks
- .gif support
- [x] Palettes
- Tiles
- Possibly much more
Compilation
- [Linux] Ensure
gtk+3-devel
or similar is installed (for native file dialogs).
- Install zig using zigup
zigup 0.13.0-dev.351+64ef45eb0
or manually and add to PATH.
- Zig version required is latest mach nominated version, find here.
- Clone pixi.
- Build.
git clone https://github.com/foxnne/pixi.git
cd pixi
- Dawn
zig build run
- sysgpu
zig build run -Duse_sysgpu=true
Credits