Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles

95 points by rabyss 7 years ago | 28 comments
  • jarnix 7 years ago
    This looks like https://www.marmoset.co/hexels/ (which is awesome)
    • slazaro 7 years ago
      Yeah, I immediately thought of Hexels too, which already has had a community and lots of artwork done with it for a few years.

      I'd suggest having a few examples of artwork and screenshots in this landing page, it's very dry for an art creation tool.

    • RodgerTheGreat 7 years ago
      Consider mapping right-click to erase or draw with a secondary color. MSPaint had this feature and it was ideal for "pushing around" pixels. I've sorely missed this functionality in most pixel art tools.
    • metalliqaz 7 years ago
      Doesn't work for me, just a blank screen.
      • maxwellito 7 years ago
        Firefox seems to not like my hack on 'location'. There's a PR to fix it but I can't review it atm :-S
      • Chriky 7 years ago
        Is there a way to align the grid vertically? It's much easier to draw buildings etc if you can have vertical lines
        • maxwellito 7 years ago
          Click on the 'orientation' label in the creation form ;)
        • psyc 7 years ago
          This is really nice. Much nicer than the plotter apps I've tried to use recently. Lots of attention given to UX details. I needed something like this with square cels recently. The best web app I could find was kind of terrible. You couldn't save, and it slowed to a crawl after a hundred pixels or so.
          • metalliqaz 7 years ago
            Why does the dropper tool not let you pick an already used color?
            • maxwellito 7 years ago
              So when I was doing stuff with it, I realised I don't wanted to save in my palette all the color I used for the illustration. So add colors to the palette has to be a manual action from the user. But Im open to suggestions, you're not the first and not the last to complain about it :) [some people find it extremely confusing]
            • joelburget 7 years ago
              Similarly, I once wrote a triangular maze generator https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/triangle-ma...
              • btbuildem 7 years ago
                Would be great if there were a few samples available to load right off the landing page..
              • zachsnow 7 years ago
                A minor suggestion: give more buttons in the UI `pointer: cursor` and hover states; it will be easier to see when a click will actually do something (thinking in particular of the black bar of icons at the bottom of the page).
                • maxwellito 7 years ago
                  Oh yes, that's a silly miss from me :-O Thanks!!
                • slco1 7 years ago
                  Something like this could have a lot of use for the creation of quilt patterns.
                  • gecko39 7 years ago
                    Cool.. could you make it so command+click deletes the cell?
                    • maxwellito 7 years ago
                      You can select, then press 'backspace' on your keyboard. That should do the trick :)
                      • gecko39 7 years ago
                        Hmm.. that's not working for me on a mac. I can select a single triangle? option/command + click would be quite convenient vs select each individual cell... since you could drag to erase.
                        • rzzzt 7 years ago
                          XOR-like behavior for the draw tool without any modifiers would work as well.
                    • erikj 7 years ago
                      It loads a blank page for me when I start a new canvas.
                      • rzzzt 7 years ago
                        Your ad blocker might need to be disabled. I also had the same problem, but it worked after adding an exception for the page in uBlockO (the extension icon did not indicate that anything was blocked, though).
                        • max-m 7 years ago
                          Had that problem on my first try in Firefox 57. It worked after reloading the page once.
                        • qwerty456127 7 years ago
                          Any examples of interesting drawings drawn with this tool?
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