Pixel Art Creator In Game

[thecreativecat]

Hello all,

I was writing to see how I could go about setting up a pixel art creator in game. I was thinking of the shirt creator in Animal Crossing as inspiration. Part of me was thinking of using a script, but was unsure if this had already been done elsewhere?

Thank you for your time.

 

[TheoAllen]

u mean, drawing in pixel but in-game? I'm not familiar with animal crossing.

 

[HexMozart88]

I did a very simple version of it a while ago, but it's probably going to be very prone to lag if you have other things going on. Basically, how I did it was to use a mouse script and make every tile on the canvas into an event that you click to activate. It works, but it's not overly practical.

 

[thecreativecat]

@TheoAllen Exactly! The mini game in Animal Crossing allowed the player to do a pixel design, using a color wheel and placing points, which then could be transferred onto the character's shirts/umbrellas in game.

@HexMozart88 That makes sense. Thank you, I appreciate the input. I was stumped and this helped to get the wheels turning in my brain.

 

[Andar]

I don't think this can be done by Ace - not without problems like the desccribed one event per pixel above.

To really get something like this workable it would need to be scripted, not evented.
And with Ace, the graphics library is closed source, so no one can use it for displaying something like this.

With MV you would have much better chances as the entire engine for MV (including the display functions) is OpenSource.

 

[TheoAllen]

And with Ace, the graphics library is closed source, so no one can use it for displaying something like this.

Get the pixel color and set pixel color is doable.
An example of getting a pixel color is when you select text color using \c[x]
An example of setting the pixel color is when you draw a gauge bar.

I'm more concerned with other unspoken requirements like how the menu will look like, how many colors, menu interaction, and function in the game design.