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