Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique
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Re: Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique
#2Hopping into the editor and throwing down a couple pixels makes sense, but once I get to the "extrude" part to make it 3D, I don't understand the controls. It's not intuitive at first play.
I would suggest having the demo editor load a familiar shape, perhaps a house or a boat, to allow me to modify the object which is already in 3D space. That might help me understand the controls better (unsure).
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#3This is really cool. How can I rotate the figure in order to draw on the back?
Re: Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique
#4How is this different from any other voxel editor?
It appears to just be a stack of 1 pixel high sprites you draw one at a time, like a 3D printer might extrude.
...I mean, fair enough, but don’t invent a whole new word for a concept that already exists unless it’s actually different?
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#5Is there going to be an editor for composing these into a larger map?
Re: Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique
#6How is this different from any other voxel editor? It appears to just be a stack of 1 pixel high sprites you draw one at a time, like a 3D printer might extrude. ...I mean, fair enough, but don’t invent a whole new word for a concept that already exists unless it’s actually different?
In a voxel editor you edit a 3D world using the smallest unit as cubes/spheres/etc. in 3D space. This is a 2D pixel editor with "stacks" of sprites.
Re: Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique
#7How is this different from any other voxel editor? It appears to just be a stack of 1 pixel high sprites you draw one at a time, like a 3D printer might extrude. ...I mean, fair enough, but don’t invent a whole new word for a concept that already exists unless it’s actually different?
In a voxel editor you edit a 3D world using the smallest unit as cubes/spheres/etc. in 3D space. This is a 2D pixel editor with "stacks" of sprites.
Isn't the stack then just the third dimension of the original two dimensions?
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#8This is cool... accessibility is rather limited though. Appears the only way to freely rotate is with a middle mouse button my laptop doesn't have.
Re: Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique
#9This is really cool. How can I rotate the figure in order to draw on the back?
There's some hot keys but you need a middle mouse button: https://spritestack.io/editor/help/#hotkeys
Re: Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique
#10How is this different from any other voxel editor? It appears to just be a stack of 1 pixel high sprites you draw one at a time, like a 3D printer might extrude. ...I mean, fair enough, but don’t invent a whole new word for a concept that already exists unless it’s actually different?
It’s different in that you can render voxel objects in a 2D renderer in a limited fashion. Whether that’s useful depends a lot on your context and aesthetic goals. Sprite stacking isn’t a new term for it either. But I agree a sprite stack could just be an export option in a regular voxel editor.