Piskel missing good features

Am i the only who realized that the piskel is good it’s self in some situations but mostly it's missing good features like being able to flip things vertically. Even being able to rotate objects freely. There’s times where i want to flip things upside down but i cant cuz it won’t let me and i have to go back and fix my mistakes and reimport the assest non stop.

Tell me what other features you notice is missing that’s important and crucial

Do you mean that the flipping doesn’t always work and is buggy? Or do you mean that it doesn’t have that functionality, if so, see below.

Piskel has both flipping and rotate.

i think when you hover on the flip it says something like shift to flip vertically.
Da Just - there isn’t going to be any further development to piskel.
So we just have to accept it for what it is - it is severely lacking in features, but it is useful for quickly scribbling an image to use whilst sketching out a game idea - even if its only to create a red square as platform

Flipping upside down not sideways. for the other feature that lets you rotates 90 degrees is useful is some situations not mostly

I’m not saying i don’t accept it nor denying anything but rather making most used features more useful and have quality life. It ain’t bad in its current state but i noticed that there’s times where i want to flip things upside down but there’s no way to do other than go back and refixing my mistakes or changing the entire thing


You have to press it and alt at the same time
Im pretty sure that Piskel is no longer in development - it’s just an addon - it’s useful occasionally …but not great!

Meant horizontally but yeh i seen it for years

I have no idea anymore what it is that you’re trying to do. But Piskel can flip both horizontally and vertically.

BirdFlip

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hmm It works for me, like bubble said.


Maybe Da-Just is doing it wrong?

I think we all have such low expectations of Piskel that we don’t actually look at the various buttons and menus. Even the name is underwhelming, surely it was a typo and should have been called Piksel?

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Hey, yeah some things can flip upside down no problem. But there’s then some other things where if the sides are long, let’s say a button you want to copy the first half and then duplicate it. But if you flipping it causes the longer sides that outside the bonderies cuts get immediately. So in the end you’re left with small tiny sideways cropped out button. Would love to show you what i mean but currently not on my pc.

I would say it is totally intentional
And not a typo
Think
If i gonna say Pixel how you gonna tell it apart from me saying Piksel?

I mean if you would hear it not read it

I bet at 1st devs had same idea as you to call it Piksel
But then realized ppl would confuse what they hear with Pixel
That is why they went with Pisekl
And you can notice same thing going on in tons of apps
Were naming is done by displacing one character instead of changing it

Play time,

Reddit > Reddti, Lyft > Lfty, Fiverr > Friver, Froot Loops > Foort Lopso

I was actually calling it pixel for quite a long time untill I actually looked at the name properly :joy:

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I absolutely love eating some Foort Lopso in the morning, it is so nuorihsngi

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NGL, a feature where you can choose the default sprite editor would be nice.

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Beautiful movement. I struggle with going back and forth to change minor things. It’s crazy how i thought they were gonna update the piskel a bit better but nope its still same as long time

To be clear, GDevelop has no control over Piskel. Its a separate project maintained by others, GDevelop just bundles it in.

An option to link instead to an external editor like mentioned above would be great. Or replacing Piskel eith something else like DPaintJS would be wonderful.

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