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

Check out the user guide!

Currently supported features

• Typical pixel art operations. (draw, erase, dropper, bucket, selection, transformation, etc)
• 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
• Theming
• Automatic packing and export on file save
• Also a zig library offering modules for handling assets
• NEW: Export animations as .gifs

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.

Compilation

• [Linux] Ensure gtk+3-devel or similar is installed (for native file dialogs).
• Install zig using zigup zigup 0.14.0-dev.2577+271452d22 or manually and add to PATH.
• Zig version required is latest mach nominated version, find [here.]https://machengine.org/docs/nominated-zig/#2024110-mach(https://machengine.org/docs/nominated-zig/#2024110-mach)
• 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.
• 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