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zenimate

Draw the frame, paint the attributes, watch it move

A ZX Spectrum animated sprite editor, in Go. Draw a multi-frame sprite on a pixel grid, paint per-character-cell Spectrum colour attributes, and preview the animation.

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In action

v0.7.0 — the full 12-tool palette: brush, select, fill, eyedropper, line, rectangle, circle, triangle, hexagon, text, pan, and zoom.
v0.7.0 — the full 12-tool palette: brush, select, fill, eyedropper, line, rectangle, circle, triangle, hexagon, text, pan, and zoom.
Spectrum colour mode: a monochrome bitmap with per-character-cell colour attributes painted on top, live in the preview panel.
Spectrum colour mode: a monochrome bitmap with per-character-cell colour attributes painted on top, live in the preview panel.
A 4-frame animation under construction, building a platformer scene tile by tile.
A 4-frame animation under construction, building a platformer scene tile by tile.
Importing an external image and reducing it to the Spectrum's bitmap-plus-attribute format.
Importing an external image and reducing it to the Spectrum's bitmap-plus-attribute format.
The frame menu — insert, duplicate, copy/paste, delete — editing an 8-frame, 16×16 sprite.
The frame menu — insert, duplicate, copy/paste, delete — editing an 8-frame, 16×16 sprite.

Documentation

zenimate — intro guide

A fuller tour of zenimate than the README: how to build it, how to drive the GUI, the file formats it reads and writes, and how the code is layered. For a one-paragraph…

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Persistence for zenimate via zentools

zenimate currently keeps everything in memory: the Sprite model has no save, load, or export path of any kind. This document proposes how to add persistence of several…

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