truth Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 Well, for this to be so you'd do well to have a grid. A snap-to-grid function as well. It'd be very nice to have a lot of cool features for tile management. For instance, setting the grid, you can view the grid, make it inivisible, snap to or not snap to grid, etc. It would also be nice if you had a "view tiled" window. In other words, it show the selected region or the entire image, or just the area on the present layer, tiled (repeated next to each other) to allow you to, as you design a tile or tiles be able to easily work with it and edit it to be a good repeated graphic which is good for background art or something else (such as a video game tile). It's always not good to have a tile that you can tell easily where it begins and ends, and instead of manually copy and pasting it next to itself over and over to see how it would look when tiled, a preview window to "View Region Tiled" would help you when putting together such graphics/pixel-pushing. Maybe make it able to click and move tiles around, as well, without having to select, copy, paste, move, delete, etc. areas defined by a grid (a height and width, usually 16x16). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 As for the grid: View -> Grid Also, just to the right of the Zoom level drop-down on the top tier of the toolbar, there is a button with what looks like a dotted perpendicular pound sign on it. That's the fast-click button for the grid on\off. The thing is, you have to zoom in to at least 400% to see it. But, since you're doing precision pixel-work, the zoom level should be just about right. As for the view tiled, Rick will have to tackle that one. Dan Quote I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Hm thank you but a definable grid would be nice :-) and a "view tiled" thing shouldn't be too hard, not sure if any program has it either, but if this program becomes more pixel-art friendly, that'd be great I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth Posted August 16, 2005 Author Share Posted August 16, 2005 Paint has many disadvantages, as well, dear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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