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Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles

maxwellito.github.io

95 points by rabyss 8 years ago · 29 comments

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jarnix 8 years ago

This looks like https://www.marmoset.co/hexels/ (which is awesome)

  • slazaro 8 years ago

    Yeah, I immediately thought of Hexels too, which already has had a community and lots of artwork done with it for a few years.

    I'd suggest having a few examples of artwork and screenshots in this landing page, it's very dry for an art creation tool.

RodgerTheGreat 8 years ago

Consider mapping right-click to erase or draw with a secondary color. MSPaint had this feature and it was ideal for "pushing around" pixels. I've sorely missed this functionality in most pixel art tools.

metalliqaz 8 years ago

Doesn't work for me, just a blank screen.

  • maxwellito 8 years ago

    Firefox seems to not like my hack on 'location'. There's a PR to fix it but I can't review it atm :-S

Chriky 8 years ago

Is there a way to align the grid vertically? It's much easier to draw buildings etc if you can have vertical lines

psyc 8 years ago

This is really nice. Much nicer than the plotter apps I've tried to use recently. Lots of attention given to UX details. I needed something like this with square cels recently. The best web app I could find was kind of terrible. You couldn't save, and it slowed to a crawl after a hundred pixels or so.

metalliqaz 8 years ago

Why does the dropper tool not let you pick an already used color?

  • maxwellito 8 years ago

    So when I was doing stuff with it, I realised I don't wanted to save in my palette all the color I used for the illustration. So add colors to the palette has to be a manual action from the user. But Im open to suggestions, you're not the first and not the last to complain about it :) [some people find it extremely confusing]

joelburget 8 years ago

Similarly, I once wrote a triangular maze generator https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/triangle-ma...

btbuildem 8 years ago

Would be great if there were a few samples available to load right off the landing page..

zachsnow 8 years ago

A minor suggestion: give more buttons in the UI `pointer: cursor` and hover states; it will be easier to see when a click will actually do something (thinking in particular of the black bar of icons at the bottom of the page).

slco1 8 years ago

Something like this could have a lot of use for the creation of quilt patterns.

gecko39 8 years ago

Cool.. could you make it so command+click deletes the cell?

  • maxwellito 8 years ago

    You can select, then press 'backspace' on your keyboard. That should do the trick :)

    • gecko39 8 years ago

      Hmm.. that's not working for me on a mac. I can select a single triangle? option/command + click would be quite convenient vs select each individual cell... since you could drag to erase.

      • rzzzt 8 years ago

        XOR-like behavior for the draw tool without any modifiers would work as well.

erikj 8 years ago

It loads a blank page for me when I start a new canvas.

  • rzzzt 8 years ago

    Your ad blocker might need to be disabled. I also had the same problem, but it worked after adding an exception for the page in uBlockO (the extension icon did not indicate that anything was blocked, though).

  • max-m 8 years ago

    Had that problem on my first try in Firefox 57. It worked after reloading the page once.

qwerty456127 8 years ago

Any examples of interesting drawings drawn with this tool?

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