iisel

iisel is a modern editor for textmode art.

It's pronounced the same as easel, the thing artists put their canvas' on.

I'd used a few alternative programs before, but none of them really captured the workflow I wanted perfectly, so I decided to make my own.

Please read the README before using iisel. It contains a list of known quirks and a full list of controls and directories that you might be interested in!

Features:

• A modern interface
• Support for any bitmap font
• Supports loading any GPL (GIMP's format) colour palettes
• Export to PNG (More formats might be added later)
• A canvas size of up to 256 x 256 characters
• Zoomable & scrollable canvas and glyph palettes to make working with smaller fonts easy
• An infinite number of layers (until your PC runs out of memory)
• A robust set of tools: Brush, Eraser, Dropper, Line, Rectangle, Filled Rectangle and Fill
• Compressed, source-control friendly project files. A project consisting of 100 256 x 256 layers will take around 2MB to 3MB.
• Unlimited quick undo/redo

Things I would like to add:

• More tools, including but not limited to: Ellipses, Select/Copy/Paste, Noise, Custom Brush, Nine-slice
• The ability to reorder layers
• Copy/Paste support for layers
• Random generation of layouts for roguelike games, using common algorithms like BSP and Cellular Automata

This is my first go at a program of this complexity, so I would really appreciate any feedback! If you find any bugs or have any feature requests then please contact me using the contact details in the README :)

Also if anyone fancies making iisel a textmode logo, that would be awesome! I'm ok at making a textmode editor, not so good at textmode art.