# Pixi

**Repository Path**: mirrors/Pixi

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: Pixi
- **Description**: Pixi 是一个用 Zig 编写的跨平台开源像素艺术编辑器和动画编辑器
- **Primary Language**: C/C++
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: https://www.oschina.net/p/pixi
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2023-04-17
- **Last Updated**: 2025-11-01

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README


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# 
**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-FileExplorer](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b69bd3f5-d387-4a51-8767-d29179cd3061)
![Pixi-TabSplits](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8d947fe8-3dec-45fc-9550-0a250981895d)


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[![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] Tabs and splits, drag and drop to reorder and reconfigure
- [x] File explorer with search and drag and drop.
- [ ] 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.
- [x] Intuitive and customizeable user interface.
- [x] Sprite packing
- [ ] Theming
- [ ] Automatic packing and export on file save
- [x] Also a zig library offering modules for handling assets
- [ ] Export animations as .gifs 

## User Interface
- The user interface is driven by [DVUI](https://github.com/david-vanderson/dvui).
- The general layout takes many ideas from VSCode or IDE's, as well as general project setup using folders.

## Compilation
- [Linux] Ensure `gtk+3-devel` or similar is installed (for native file dialogs).
- Install zig 0.15.1.
- Clone pixi.
- Build.
    - ```git clone https://github.com/foxnne/pixi.git```
    - ```cd pixi```
    - ```zig build run```

## Credits
- [David Vanderson](https://github.com/david-vanderson) for all the help and [DVUI](https://github.com/david-vanderson/dvui).
- [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