https://github.com/foxnne/pixi

Pixel art editor made with Zig.
https://github.com/foxnne/pixi

2d animation cross-platform editor gamedev imgui mit-license pixelart zig ziglang

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Pixel art editor made with Zig.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/foxnne/pixi
• Owner: foxnne
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-06-17T17:43:39.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-04T18:06:00.000Z (19 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-06T04:44:55.673Z (18 days ago)
• Topics: 2d, animation, cross-platform, editor, gamedev, imgui, mit-license, pixelart, zig, ziglang
• Language: Zig
• Homepage: https://foxnne.github.io/pixi/
• Size: 13 MB
• Stars: 927
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 25
• Open Issues: 15
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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![buildworkflow](https://github.com/foxnne/pixi/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg)

# 

**Pixi** is an cross-platform open-source pixel art editor and animation editor written in [Zig](https://github.com/ziglang/zig).

#### Check out the [user guide](https://github.com/foxnne/pixi/wiki/User-Guide)!

![pixi_explanatory_workflow](https://github.com/foxnne/pixi/assets/49629865/51e16f4d-634e-461d-ba5e-41cc4fa8229e)





[![ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/img/githubbutton_sm.svg)](https://ko-fi.com/R5R4LL2PJ)

## Currently supported features

- [x] Typical pixel art operations. (draw, erase, dropper, bucket, selection, transformation, etc)

- [x] Create animations and preview easily, edit directly on the preview.

- [x] View previous and next frames of the animation.

- [x] Set sprite origins for drawing sprites easily in game frameworks.

- [x] Import and slice existing .png spritesheets.

- [x] Intuitive and customizeable user interface.

- [x] Sprite packing

- [x] Theming

- [x] Automatic packing and export on file save

- [x] Also a zig library offering modules for handling assets

- [x] NEW: Export animations as .gifs 

## User Interface

- The user interface is driven by [Dear Imgui](https://github.com/ocornut/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](https://github.com/marler8997/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](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) used for almost all of the user interface.

- [emidoots](https://github.com/emidoots) for all the help and [mach](https://github.com/hexops/mach).

- [michal-z](https://github.com/michal-z) for all the help and [zig-gamedev](https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev).

- [prime31](https://github.com/prime31) for all the help.

- Any and all contributors