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

Check out the user guide!

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Features planned for 0.1

Typical pixel art operations. (draw, erase, color select)
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.
Intuitive and customizeable user interface.
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
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

The wonderful Dear Imgui used for almost all of the user interface.
michal-z for all the help and zig-gamedev.
slimsag for all the help and mach-core.
prime31 for all the help.
Any and all contributors