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Pixi is an cross-platform open-source pixel art editor and animation editor written in Zig.

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Check out the user guide!

Currently supported features

• [x] Typical pixel art operations. (draw, erase, dropper, bucket, selection, transformation, etc)
• [x] Tabs and splits, drag and drop to reorder and reconfigure
• [x] File explorer with search and drag and drop.
• [ ] Create animations and preview easily, edit directly on the preview.
• [ ] View previous and next frames of the animation.
• [ ] Set sprite origins for drawing sprites easily in game frameworks.
• [ ] Import and slice existing .png spritesheets.
• [x] Intuitive and customizeable user interface.
• [x] Sprite packing
• [ ] Theming
• [ ] Automatic packing and export on file save
• [x] Also a zig library offering modules for handling assets
• [ ] Export animations as .gifs

User Interface

• The user interface is driven by DVUI.
• The general layout takes many ideas from VSCode or IDE's, as well as general project setup using folders.

Compilation

• [Linux] Ensure gtk+3-devel or similar is installed (for native file dialogs).
• Install zig 0.15.1.
• Clone pixi.
• Build.
  • git clone https://github.com/foxnne/pixi.git
  • cd pixi
  • zig build run

Credits

• David Vanderson for all the help and DVUI.
• emidoots for all the help and mach.
• michal-z for all the help and zig-gamedev.
• prime31 for all the help.
• Any and all contributors