readme.md

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

Pixi uses mach-core, and follows the same required version of zig, you can find the download here.

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).
• Download the supported nightly version of Zig here and add to PATH.
• Clone pixi.
• Build.
  • git clone https://github.com/foxnne/pixi.git
  • cd pixi
  • zig build run

Credits

• The wonderful Dear Imgui used for almost all of the user interface.
• michal-z for all the help and zig-gamedev which does all the heavy lifting.
• slimsag for all the help and mach-core which handles input and windowing.
• prime31 for all the help.
• Any and all contributors