Introduction - Setting up - Keys - Contact
Introduction
Phidias is a drawing program for Nintendo DS made by Tapio Pyrhönen (aka. Tassu). It has all the features needed to create amazing drawings and pixel art.
Phidias is a drawing program for Nintendo DS made by Tapio Pyrhönen (aka. Tassu). It has all the features needed to create amazing drawings and pixel art.
You will need a Nintendo DS and a flashkit that has DLDI support. You can check if your device has DLDI from Chishm's site: http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI.
Download the latest version of Phidias from Tassu's site: http://sivullinen.fi/nds
Patch the rom with DLDI and copy it and the Phidias folder to the root of you card.
| Left shoulder | Toggle between drawing and menu screen |
| Directional pad | Scroll image |
| A / B | Zoom in / out |
| X / Y | Set tool size |
| Start | Reset view |
| Select | Undo / redo |
| Right shoulder + left / right | Set tool pressure |
| Right shoulder + up / down | Set tool size |
| Right shoulder + any direction | Offset the image (good for creating seamless textures) |
| Both shoulders + any direction | Flip the image horizontally or vertically |
| A-button while in the color picker | Add chosen color to palette |
| A-button while in the brush selecting screen | Save current image as a brush (saves a resized 32x32 grayscale image to brushes folder) |
| Double tap the pencil or brush icon to enter the brush selecting screen | |
| Everything else should be self explanatory | |
If you draw something pretty, please mail it to me: tapio.pyrhonen@gmail.com and let me know if I have your permission to upload the picture to my site.
http://sivullinen.fi/nds
http://palib.com
http://easybmp.sourceforge.net