Pixelarium - Drawing Sandbox and more !

[Zamp]

Hi lövers,
First of all, i'm french so i'll probably make sentences without any kind of sense in English, - feel free to correct me

Here is a project i've been working on for a while now, Pixelarium.



Pixelarium is either a drawing software and a sandbox game, inspired by hours of fun on mspaint and by the need of a tool to create graphics for my löve games. Sketch is exportable in .png format thanks to love.image.



Pixelarium is still in early stage, any ideas, fixes, are welcomed.

Shortcuts
- F10 : clear screen
- Esc : exit current active mod
- r : random colors
Ctrl + r : random active color only
- b : picks paintbrush
right click with paintbrush : erase pixel
- e : picks eraser
- i : picks pipette tool
- g : picks bucket tool
- s : picks spray tool
- spacebar : moving tool

Known issues
- PNG export seems not working on some computers :/ Please check you have the latest version of löve installed.
- save mod is not working yet, same for open mod.
- pixelarium.love does not load mods, you have to drop pixelarium folder on love icon to run mods-loaded pixelarium.

Download
Latest build :
http://www.pixelarium.fr
Current build :
pixelarium_0.8.zip

[T-Bone]

Unbelievable lag when I drag the mouse to draw lines, basically crashes the program.

[Zamp]

Hum that's a pretty big problem indeed.
I had never encoutered it for now, mouse dragging was more or less slow though.
Since pixelarium needs to draw a bazillion things, i'm trying to work on optimization. I don't have any solution for now, but i hope i'll be back soon with a faster build than this one.

Thanks for your bug reporting

[dark_on_5]

Can I only draw with random colors?

Looks great! Still needs a lot of development, but it's funny and useful (at least when will be possible to personalize colors I'll use this a lot)

PD: I have no lag problems, but I have a i7 1.7GHz and 4GB RAM.

[mman2112]

Saving appears to be broken, it attempts to write to a file in "saves_files" but it appears that there is no code to make sure that directory exists. in the mods/save/save.lua file try adding this:

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if not love.filesystem.exists("saves_files") then love.filesystem.mkdir("saves_files") 

or something similar in function. Seems pretty fun to play with though, so keep working on it!

[Larsii30]

AMD A6 Laptop 4 x 1.5Ghz, 4Gb DDR3 . -> No lag. looks fine.

[Zamp]

Thanks everybody

It will body possible to add custom colors, i need first to make a better user interface wich allows text inputs

Saving is now fixed thanks to love.filesystem.mkdir("saves_files") !

[Nsmurf]

The hand tool moves the canvas in reverse

other than that, great tool, no lag for me

Suggestions:

• RGB color selection
• Fix hand tool
• Improve spray tool. Possibly make it so it randomly changes the color of half of the pixels in a 3 pixel square?
• Line tool

[Zamp]

Thanks for your suggestions, they're all relevant

I love your idea about the spray tool, i'll change it this way

[qaisjp]

Hand (pan) tool looks fine (maybe because it follows the iPad scrolling style?)
You should work on a zoom tool, if not available,
Good work, looks awesome.