PaintPower Engine

Open‑source engine powering the Coco xPaint Project

Current version: Pre‑Alpha 1.0.1.2 — build ???

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What is PaintPower?

PaintPower is the core engine behind Coco xPaint, a multi‑purpose creative editor currently in development.
xPaint aims to include:

• Paint editor
• Script/Text editor
• Sound player
• Animation editor
• Video editor
• Runtime‑level custom extensions (similar to VSCode extensions)

xPaint uses PaintPower files and extends them with its own project format.

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Related Repositories

• PaintPower Engine (this repo)
• PaintPower VM
  https://github.com/CocoBox84/PaintPower-Engine-VM

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Building and Running

PaintPower is written in C#.

Download C# Code editors here:

Visual Studio Or Visual Studio Code

Option 1: Visual Studio 2022

1. Open the solution
2. Select the PaintPower project
3. Build and run

Option 2: Visual Studio Code

Requires the C# Dev Kit extension.

1. Open the folder
2. VS Code should load the project automatically
3. Press Run

Pre‑built versions

If you trust the builds, you can download them here:
https://github.com/CocoBox84/PaintPower-Engine/releases/

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Documentation

Additional documentation can be found in the /docs folder:

• ROADMAP.md — planned features and tasks
• WXA-Format.md — animation format specification
• Upload-Plan.md — project upload workflow
• Publishing.md — how to publish builds

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome!
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request.

If you're new to the project, look for issues labeled:

• good first issue
• help wanted

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My Website

https://www.cocoink.ink/

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License

Find the license in License.md