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[happymonster]

One of the problems with anti-aliasing pixel art is that to keep the image crisp we really want to add only small amounts of anti-aliasing (compared to anti-aliasing in 3D games)

For example. Consider a black triangle on a white background. Do we anti-alias around the black edges (increasing the size of the triangle), or the white edges? (decreasing the size of the triangle). Games that use post-processing anti-aliasing on the frame buffer do the correct solution of blending the white a little bit, and the black as well (rather than one or the other).

However this means that a diagonal line has anti-aliasing that is 2 pixels thick, and while this still looks ok at HD resolutions, with pixel art it can just look blurry.

With small sprite work every pixel counts, so currently I'm leaning towards having the option to anti-alias favouring darks or lights and let the artist decide what works best for which areas.

Hope that made sense!

[happymonster]

I'm feeling like using D-Pixel to do some art for a game.. but I don't know what game or idea to do. 

[happymonster]

Not had much time lately and also pretty tired (teething baby..) but I've finally got Anti-aliasing working OK. I'll have to see if I can improve the routine as it still needs a bit more work to look better.

[happymonster]

Combined the Lighten & Darken paint modes into one new Brightness mode. You can toggle between the two states by pressing the 'T' key.

Made the direction for the Palette Shade paint mode toggleable between left and right too. This means you don't have to use the right mouse button if you don't want too.

Made 3 settings for the Antialias paint mode - Lights, Darks, Balanced. Lights tries to add anti-aliasing around light edges, Darks around dark edges and balanced adds reduced strength anti-aliasing around both light and dark edges (at the cost of looking more blurry).

[happymonster]

The three anti-alias filter modes in D-Pixel (Lights/Darks/Balanced). Trying to preserve corners and one pixel lines..

[surt]

It'd be nice to be able to specify the max number of blend colours the auto AA uses so as to better match one's manual AA.

[happymonster]

That's an advanced type of option to possibly add in the future. There is other functionality I want to add to other parts of the programme first.

[happymonster]

Added a change to the anti-aliasing so that it tries not to use the same colour as the area it's trying to anti-alias. This can happen when you have limited palette entries.

Also fixed a bug where some colour entries could display wrongly in the palette.

[happymonster]

Fixed an error where multiple icons could sometimes light up when you selected a brush function.

[happymonster]

Holding down shift when scrolling the mouse wheel on sliders now moves the bar at a x4 speed (thanks for the suggestion Surt)

[happymonster]

Version 0.93 released - bug fixes, a few new features as detailed here and the new anti-aliasing paint mode.

[happymonster]

Oppps! Missed a few things off of the download - better re-download if you have v0.93 already.

[happymonster]

Just managed to implement (into my developmental version) saving and loading the undo stack for DPX images (what are used for the persistent  workspace). This is something I've wanted to add for a while and means the workspace will be truly seamless if you quit the program and later restart. The undo stack is 64 levels long so some images could become much bigger and take longer to load and save, but will give the user more flexibility when using the program.

I may have to add Loading / Saving dialogs at the start and end of the program. At the moment it only saves images which have changed, which should help a bit.

It still needs a lot more testing, but I'm excited to be able add this feature! 

[happymonster]

Added simple progress bar when Loading & Saving the Workspace

[happymonster]

Actually, just changed the progress bar to a static text display (Loading or Saving). The progress bar just seemed too distracting.

[happymonster]

Fixed a stupid error I was making when loading / saving undo stacks which could cause crashes.

[happymonster]

I need to fix some more bugs, and it's hard to find them when trying to just add new features and polish. So I'm going to do some simple game graphics so I can find the bugs that occur when actually using the program properly

[happymonster]

When you grab a brush with tile copy the brush handle is now set to the top-left so it is correctly aligned for Grid Drawing.

[happymonster]

Stopped functions which affect the brush handle (flip, rotate, etc..) from switching the brush handle position from the top-left in tile draw mode.

[happymonster]

Fixed a bug with drawing lined or checked grid when switching between grid modes

Fixed a bug where lined or checked grid weren't being drawn when in tile mapping mode

Tile mapping mode variable wasn't being saved to the workspace. Now fixed!

Die bugs.. DIE!