my project: 3DPixel

MoKaLux

I have been working playing for the last couple of weeks and came up with an app.
I would be happy to have some feedback from you guys.
https://mokalux.itch.io/3d-to-spritesheet
In short the app allows you to export your 3D animation to 2D images for your 2D games (spritesheet) or gideros texturepack.
This is a demo only as I plan to sell it (God's willing).

Thank you and take care!

PS: thank you all for your help on the forum, I mean you ALL

PS: I should post a YT video later on today

keszegh

quick comments:
- mouse could rotate the view (or ctrl+mouse or alt+mouse or something, check the standard shortcuts in blender how to rotate/zoom/pan with mouse, its a good idea to follow those)
- buttons remain hovered randomly even after i move the cursor away

keszegh

i think this is exactly the kind of app which would benefit a lot from using imgui. then many features would come out of the box (also no issues with hovering like you have now) and would look more 'professional' also. you could tab things together, separate windows could be moved around etc, i think if you invest a week into it you can recreate the same gui in imgui just much better.

SinisterSoft

For buyers, could you include a Lua class that could load 3D data files and from that generate the sprite sheets in code? This would save RAM and allow manipulation of things such as colour, etc - eg if it's a car game and the user changes the colour of the car or adds bits to the car.

keszegh

while i like all the strange things made with gideros, it would make sense to elevate all the features of a 3d editor and make such an add-on within say blender (as the best free one). there are such attempts already e.g.
https://kilbeeu.itch.io/get-sheet-done
https://github.com/johnferley/Game-Sprite-Creator

MoKaLux

keszegh said:

- mouse could rotate the view (or ctrl+mouse or alt+mouse or something)
- buttons remain hovered randomly even after i move the cursor away

I will test, see if I can achieve those
For the buttons I may remove all the hover effects and leave only a standard button.

keszegh said:

i think this is exactly the kind of app which would benefit a lot from using imgui.

100% agree but I wanted to get it out asap I need to invest more time in the gui for sure.

SinisterSoft said:

For buyers, could you include a Lua class that could load 3D data files and from that generate the sprite sheets in code? This would save RAM and allow manipulation of things such as colour, etc

In the class I would need to let you choose the angles you want to generate the sprite sheet (top, down, 3/4, ...). I wanted to add post processing effect but I had no screen space available. Adding post processing is still something I keep in mind (gideros lua shaders or setColorTransform) but that's a completely different app.

keszegh said:

there are such attempts already e.g.
https://kilbeeu.itch.io/get-sheet-done
https://github.com/johnferley/Game-Sprite-Creator

I have been looking at alternatives, and I have had this idea for a long time and gideros made it possible.

My app does not deal with complex textures for fbx, I am working on it first

Thank you for your time and feedback, much appreciated