New Designer: Draw, Build & Animate Like Never Before

Hey everyone!

We built a new Designer to help you unlock your full creative potential. Pixel-perfect placement on an interactive grid canvas with freehand drawing tools, and so much more!

The original Designer is still available — this one just takes things further.

🎨 The new Canvas

Features

• Scroll to zoom, middle-click to pan, and click to select layers directly on the canvas.
• Drag to move and resize layers. Click and drag an empty area to marquee select multiple layers.
• Drag and drop images onto the canvas to add them as layers.
• Right-click context menu and full keyboard shortcut support.

✏️ Freehand Drawing + New Layer types

We have finally implemented one of the most requested feature: Freehand pixel drawing for Crosshair Designs.

New Layer Types

• Draw — Interact directly with the canvas and draw
• Shape — Rectangles, ellipses, and triangles can now independently be added to your design with animation support
• Text — Finally you can also add text to your design with animation support

🆕 Line Shapes & Arm Rendering

• New arm renderer supporting 3–8 evenly-spaced arms with per-arm visibility toggles.
• Two new arm shapes: Image and Text (Yes you can make crosshairs out of images now)
• Supported line shapes:
  • Rectangle
  • Triangle
  • Chevron In
  • Chevron Out
  • Arc
  • T-Shape
  • Image (new)
  • Text (new)

Presets
Varying Arms

⚡Animation Changes

• Multi-stage animations — chain multiple stages together to create more dynamic and complex animations.
• Image layers can now be animated — animate width, height, opacity, rotation, and position on fire, aim, or autoplay.
• Shape and text layers are fully animatable too — each with their own set of properties.

📋 Design Quick Actions

• New summary view showing common properties across all layers in your design.
• Change colors, outlines, and opacity globally — no need to edit each layer individually.
• Get to the look you want faster by iterating on the whole design at once.

👋 Until next time

Thank you for sticking with us — this update has been a long time coming. We're excited to see your designs and hear your feedback. Come share what you build.

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GLHF 🦆