picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models • Hacker News Board

Love this! Might nab it just to try it out. A very similar tool is Kenney Shape which has you drawing pixel art with depth numbers for each square that turn into models: https://kenney.nl/tools/kenney-shape

Re: picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models

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Post by johanpeitz » Thu, Nov 28, 2024, 9:23 AM UTC

Hallo! Johan the dev here, thanks for all the positive responses. Happy to answer any questions about picoCAD if there are any.

You can also check out https://picoCAD.net for more info :)

Re: picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models

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Post by tym0 » Thu, Nov 28, 2024, 10:10 AM UTC

johanpeitz wrote: post #6

Hallo! Johan the dev here, thanks for all the positive responses. Happy to answer any questions about picoCAD if there are any. You can also check out https://picoCAD.net for more info :)

Hey, been meaning to try picoCAD for a while now this might push me over the edge :)

For my curiosity: How are you distributing this? Is it the Web version of the pico8 game or did you rewrite it in love or something? Or does pico8 allows to embed their VM when distributing on Steam?

Re: picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models

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Post by johanpeitz » Thu, Nov 28, 2024, 10:54 AM UTC

tym0 wrote: post #7

johanpeitz wrote: post #6

Hallo! Johan the dev here, thanks for all the positive responses. Happy to answer any questions about picoCAD if there are any. You can also check out https://picoCAD.net for more info :)

Hey, been meaning to try picoCAD for a while now this might push me over the edge :) For my curiosity: How are you distributing this? Is it the Web version of the pico8 game or did you rewrite it in love or something? Or does pico8 allows to embed their VM when distributing on Steam?

pico8 has the ability to export anything you make into native binaries. Simple as that :)

Re: picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models

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Post by Herbstluft » Thu, Nov 28, 2024, 10:56 AM UTC

johanpeitz wrote: post #6

Hallo! Johan the dev here, thanks for all the positive responses. Happy to answer any questions about picoCAD if there are any. You can also check out https://picoCAD.net for more info :)

Love picocad.

Now that picotron is ramping up which basically offers a superset in terms of features compared to pico8: will there be an expanded picotron version of picocad?

Re: picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models

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Post by elldes » Thu, Nov 28, 2024, 11:06 AM UTC

johanpeitz wrote: post #6

Hallo! Johan the dev here, thanks for all the positive responses. Happy to answer any questions about picoCAD if there are any. You can also check out https://picoCAD.net for more info :)

This looks so cool!

Is there a workflow you would recommend for creating animations once the model has been created in picoCAD?