General

The main workspace consists of a menu on the left hand side and a large representation of the pixel map on the right hand side. The Pixel Mapulator utilizes local storage to store user settings from previous sessions in the clien's browser. There's a green "Reset Defaults" button that will reset the dimensions of the pixel map. The red "Pixel Perfect" button toggle's the scale of the pixel map between 100% "pixel perfect" view and a scaled down mode that allows you to see the entire map within the browser window.

Size Options

Choose the size you want for the overall map (ex. 12 tiles wide by 6 tiles high). Then choose the tile dimensions for the type of tile you're working with and enter them into the pixels high and pixels wide field's (ex. 128 pixels wide by 128 pixels high). Select an output dimension limit that matches the maximum output resolution of your media source / playback device (ex. 1920 x 1080). Processor limits can be entered to apply constraints to your pixel map that match the lmiit of tiles each one of your processor ports can drive. If your map dimensions exceed that of your processor limit dimensions, each section of the map extending beyond the limits of the processor limits will be rendered in alternating sets of colors that are defined in the color options section of the menu.

Coordinate Options

Individual tile coordinate labels can be toggled on and off. You can choose a custom delimiter to separate the X and Y values of the coordinate pairs. This character defaults to a period ( . ) but can be changed to any character you like. The coordinate style can be customized further with various combinations of Alpha and Numeral coordinate pairs.

Overlay Options

Borders can be drawn around the entire pixel map or individually around each tile, each of these border’s width’s can be changed to any width you like. You can optionally choose to render a text box with resolution specifications about the pixel map. Optionally overlay a scaling test card. You can turn every other pixel off in the data fill as an additional safeguard against scaling errors. There’s a user defined text field overlay option that could be useful for displaying the client’s company name or any other text information desired on the map. A custom logo can be uploaded, PNG’s with transparent background’s will look the best.

Color Options

Within this menu you can set custom colors for all tiles, borders, and overlayed graphics. Enter the colors in hex color code format.

Experimental Options

These are upcoming and in-progress features. Signal flow automatically generates a wiring diagram per processor output port. Under View Options you can choose to have your pixel map rendered within a PNG that matches your output dimensions, within a PNG that is large enough to cover all processor outputs, or the pixel map in total by itself, not rendered within any additional output. Mouse over map to zoom in for a closer view of the individual pixels.

Download Options

Click the red button to download your completed pixel map as a PNG. Optionally give your png a custom file name (ex. Canvas.PNG)