Slate is a bitmap editor available for Linux, Windows and Mac. With Slate, you can:
- Edit images directly
- Use layers
- Create seamless 2D tilesets
- Preview sprite sheet animations
Slate was built for pixel art, and its goal is to simplify the creation of sprites and tilesets by offering a user-friendly, customisable interface.
See the releases page for the available downloads.
- This is a work in progress, but should already be usable. Feel free to report any bugs you find. :)
- If you are unable to run the app on Windows, you may need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017. If that link breaks, this or this should work (choose the x64 version). This will be installed automatically when I get around to making a proper installer.
- The UI is currently designed for the Material style, and will probably look bad when run with others.
- Qt >= 5.11
- https://github.com/mitchcurtis/qt-undo (submodule; see Building)
master is the default branch where all work is done, and is not guaranteed to be stable. I tag releases, so if you're looking for a stable build to try out, it's best to pick the latest one from git tag -l.
qt-undo can be cloned and built separately, but it is also available as a submodule of Slate's repo, and can therefore be built automatically when Slate is built, by first running the following commands:
cd /path/to/slate-source-dir
git submodule init
git submodule update
Once that's set up, there are two options for building:
Open slate.pro in Qt Creator, configure the project using a kit with a Qt version that meets the requirement listed in the Dependencies section, and then build it.
In-source builds:
cd /path/to/slate-source-dir
/path/to/qt/qmake
make (or nmake/jom on Windows)
Shadow builds:
mkdir slate-build
cd slate-build
/path/to/qt/qmake /path/to/slate-source-dir/slate.pro
make (or nmake/jom on Windows)
The tileset in the screenshot was taken from the following page: