Pixel Art Generator 0.2.1

Pixel Art Generator 0.2.1

Kept up to date with BlockDesigner 0.4.27: built and tested against its plugin API. Nothing changes in how it works.

Needs BlockDesigner 0.4.24 or later (plugin API 6). Older BlockDesigners keep 0.1.2 until BlockDesigner itself is updated.

Changed

• Built against the BlockDesigner 0.4.27 plugin API.

Pixel Art Generator 0.2.0

Pixel Art Generator 0.2.0

The Generate page is easier to read: settings grouped under headings, with units and help, and shared with File › Import.

Needs BlockDesigner 0.4.24 or later (plugin API 6). Older BlockDesigners keep 0.1.2 until BlockDesigner itself is updated.

New

• Settings grouped under Shape, Blocks and Background, with Picture adjustments folded away, each with its unit and a line of help.
• One set of settings for the page and File › Import: change them in either and the other shows the same. Your page settings are kept.
• Place pixel art can be given a key in Settings › Keybinds.
• Blocks used lists every kind of block (it stopped at 64).

Changed

• The page is called Generate. With no picture open it shows Open picture…; with one, the picture's name, the Picture / Regions / Blocks preview (about a third of the page tall) and a button to open another.
• Build as new layer and Place with tool are at the bottom, with the size and block count and any error above them.
• The importer is now called "Pixel art from a picture (Pixel Art Generator)", and BlockDesigner now asks which importer to use when Palette Tools is installed too; before, pictures always went to Palette Tools' importer.

Pixel Art Generator 0.1.2

Pixel Art Generator 0.1.2

Kept up to date with BlockDesigner 0.4.23: built and tested against its plugin API. Nothing changes in how it works.

Needs BlockDesigner 0.4.17 or later (plugin API 5).

Changed

• Built against the BlockDesigner 0.4.23 plugin API.

Pixel Art Generator 0.1.1

Pixel Art Generator 0.1.1

Kept up to date with BlockDesigner 0.4.22: built and tested against its plugin API. Nothing changes in how it works.

Needs BlockDesigner 0.4.17 or later (plugin API 5).

Changed

• Built against the BlockDesigner 0.4.22 plugin API.

Pixel Art Generator 0.1.0

Pixel Art Generator 0.1.0

The first release: a picture turned into blocks as pixel art, a relief, an extruded shape or a rounded 3D guess, with slabs and stairs. It works offline, with no AI.

Needs BlockDesigner 0.4.17 or later (plugin API 5).

New

• Pixel Art Generator page in the plugin's tab: open or drop a picture (PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF). Picture, Regions and Blocks previews update as you change the settings, and Build as new layer adds the result as one undo step.
• Shapes: flat pixel art; relief / heightmap from brightness, colour regions (layers) or a depth image; extruded silhouette with a bevel; 3D inflate, where a disc becomes a ball; and 3D revolve, a lathe for vases and towers.
• Slabs and stairs give half-block detail on slopes and curves. The stairs face the way the game's own models do, and blocks without a slab or stair borrow the closest-looking building block's. Hollow keeps a one-block shell.
• Place pixel art tool: shows the result as ghosts where you point, turns with Shift+wheel or R, and places with a click as one undo step.
• Colour regions: the picture is split into colour groups and connected shapes, and specks are merged away.
• Block sets: concrete, wool and terracotta; building blocks; all solid blocks; or your own list. Block colours come from the loaded game's textures, side faces for walls and top faces for floors.
• Matching by region (clean shapes), by pixel, or by pixel with smooth or patterned dithering. Colours are compared in OKLab, and you can limit the number of kinds of block.
• Background removal from transparency or a plain border colour, with no halo left around the subject.
• Walls facing any direction or a floor; up to 512 blocks wide (256 for extruded and 3D shapes).
• Copy block list copies how many of each block the build needs.
• File › Import also takes pictures, with the same settings.