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maxwellito.github.io

95 points by rabyss · 29 comments

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jarnix

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

  • slazaro

    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

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

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

  • maxwellito

    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

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

psyc

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

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

  • maxwellito

    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

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

btbuildem

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

zachsnow

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

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

gecko39

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

  • maxwellito

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

    • gecko39

      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

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

erikj

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

  • rzzzt

    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

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

qwerty456127

Any examples of interesting drawings drawn with this tool?

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