bitspaceorg / zide

Zide is a design environment

ZIDE 🎨 - AN OPENSOURCE APPLICATION TO CREATE PIXEL ART

What is ZIDE ?

Zide (abbr. Zide Is a Design Environment) is a cross-platform pixel art editor designed to provide artists with a minimalistic, easy-to-use interface. Whether you're creating a simple sprite or an intricate animation, Zide offers all the essential tools you need to bring your art to life.

Check out our demo video ✌🏽

Table of Contents

• Motivation
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• License

Motivation

We noticed that most pixel art tools are either locked behind paywalls or seem to do everything except pixel art. So, we created ZIDE: an open-source, easy-to-use pixel art app that just works!

Features

Pixel Free Draw

You can draw, fill and erase with the built-in tools

Undo and Redo

You can undo and redo changes or mistakes made

Panning and Zooming

You can zoom or pan through the edit space

Import Pallets

Import existing pallets made for pixelart through .gpl

Animation

You can create multiple frames into 2d-motion

Export

You can render the drawing as the sprite sheet

Installation

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following installed on your system:

• Git
• gcc or clang

Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/bitspaceorg/zide.git
   cd zide

2. Install the necessary dependencies, if you haven't already (if you haven't already).

3. Build the application with the following command:

   ./scripts/rebuild_and_run_app.sh

4. For running the application, later on, use the following command:

   ./scripts/run_app.sh

Usage

1. Create a new project
2. Name your project and mention the sprite pixel size
3. Draw, fill and Erase through the edit arena
4. Make multiple frames and make them as Animations
5. Render the sprite sheet with all the frames

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software under the terms of the MIT LICENSE