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Pixel art editor made with Zig.

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

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Example

Features

  • Typical pixel art operations. (draw, erase, color select, fill etc.)
  • Create animations and preview easily, edit directly on the preview.
  • View previous and next frames of the animation and edit directly.
  • Set sprite origins for drawing sprites easily in game frameworks.
  • Import and slice existing .png spritesheets.
  • Intuitive and customizeable user interface.
  • Sprite packing

Packing

User Interface

  • The user interface is driven by Dear Imgui which should be familiar to many.

Planned Features

  • Export/import options.
    • Possibly .pyxel and .asesprite import
    • Export to .zig to directly use in Zig frameworks
    • .gif support
  • Palettes
  • Tiles
  • Possibly much more

Compilation

  • Download the latest Zig master from here and add to PATH.
  • Clone pixi.
  • Build.
    • git clone https://github.com/foxnne/pixi.git --recursive
    • cd pixi
    • zig build run

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