Blockwright

An editor for ANSI and IRC art: half-block pixels, shading along colour ramps, lighting, layers, and a live byte meter so every line fits on IRC.

The documentation is being written.

Tutorials

From nothing to a finished piece on IRC.

1. What ANSI art is
2. Your first piece
3. Pixels with half blocks
4. Shading: the ladder
5. Shading: forms and falloff
6. Light
7. Detail
8. Composing a scene
9. Layers and projects
10. Letters and text
11. Made for IRC
12. Scripts and generators

Then projects, whole pieces built from those skills: a night scene, a face, a figure, a building, an object, an icon, a lettered logo.

Manual

Every tool, menu, file format and command.

1. Installing Blockwright (not written yet)
2. The window: canvas, docks and views
3. Keyboard mode, F-key glyph sets and the pen
4. Tools and their options
5. Selections, clipboard and paste modes
6. Mirror mode and symmetry
7. Layers: the five kinds, the dock and the menu
8. The Library: stamps, Save to Library and text styles
9. Palette, iCE colours and 24-bit colour
10. IRC: byte budget, row meter, IRC view, export
11. Lint panel and the checks it runs
12. Generator layers and scripts
13. File formats: .ans, SAUCE, IRC text, UTF-8, XBIN, project files
14. blockwright-cli
15. Shortcuts
16. Preferences