u/Delicious_Carpet_132

I've been messing around with noise (Perlin, Worley and Flow) generation in my pixel editor and it was just limited to creating flood fill effects such as flames, smoke etc (combined with colour ramps and selections). However, I've added a new Field paint mode that lets the user paint with noise in various ways - this image shows pixel displacement within a filled circle, we also have shade and noise texture stencils - is this overkill for the average pixeler or is it a useful feature to develop more?

Hey all,

A bit of background: having worked in tech for almost 10 years (AWS DevOps) I found myself unemployed and at a loose end so decided to teach myself C++ and code an app I've wanted to create for the past 30+ years - a homage to DPaint 3 which I used constantly back in my foundational Amiga days and loved every second of it (nostalgia eh!).

So for the past 12 months I've created a C++ 2D engine with a simple OpenGL batch renderer backend and for the last 4 months I have been developing the actual Pixel Editor on top of the engine. The only external libraries used are GLAD and GLFW - so this is a total in at the deep end with both hands tied scenario!

tldr; the pixel editor is in quite an advanced stage with zoom, draw tools, paint modes etc all in a good working state. I wanted to ask what you good honest redditors thought of my progress and if there was a potential market for an inexpensive (sub $20) indie release (itch.io) of a dedicated indexed palette pixel editor as funds are tight and I would love to make solo indie dev my full time career?

Anyway. I'm rambling ... please let me know what you think - all feedback greatly appreciated.

There's some videos on my youtube channel but i'm far from being a content creator!

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My custom C++ UI engine pixel editor is progressing very nicely - instant focal zoom across multiple split panels working nicely!

Well its been a few weeks since I gave an update (as if anyone is waiting with bated breath on my every word lol!) but the development of my pixel art editor continues ... the major news is that my GUI render backend has been completely ripped out and simplified and now it does indeed at like the good little differed batch renderer it is supposed to be - rock solid 60fps with zero slow downs - nice!

As for the GUI / Editor - have almost finished the layer editor tool - we have new layer and/or frame creation, linked frames, and drag and drop in and out of layer groups - all renamable via a click on the label. Also added splitter panes that allow the canvas/layer to be dynamically resized using the horizontal grey bar. Oh - that cyan rectangle above the frame header buttons can be dragged to allow quick movement left and right through the animation cells!

Just going to finish off the layer editor and then start on pushing pixels to the layers via the draw tools.

Just a quick update on the ongoing development of my new Pixel Art Editor that is using my custom c++ GUI framework.

The screenshot shows 2 visible and scrollable layers (one RGB reference image and one smaller indexed palette image) with the indexed palette in mid edit!

I'm currently working on the layer and timeline system and have a full scrollable layer list panel with draggable layers and groups - all with editable names.

Any feedback or questions appreciated.