Feature Request: Upload Our Own Images

[Clownfish]

Thank you for making this game Sokpop team!
I would love to have the ability to upload my own images. When I search on the Pixabay search, I'm not finding all the images I would love to have. Would you please add a google search feature or a way we can upload our own .PNG files (with transparency)?

A few other features I'd love to have:
- The ability to change the eraser size.
- The ability to un-erase or undo changes made.

This is a fantastic program and it's fills a niche that isn't easily found on the internet. I love how simple it is to use.

Thank you Sokpop team!

[firanka]

I agree

[firanka]

up up up

[Lady Lavender]

I agree. This is far too limited without those features.

[Snout Flower]

Not a replacement for an actual feature, but in the mean time if you want to do custom images you can use an online converter to convert png/jpg/gif to base64 and after that you can edit your world "[user]/AppData/LocalLow/sokpop/sokworlds/[a bunch of letters and numbers]" in a text editor and add the image in by replacing another image, scale might go weird though. You can also do a lot of fancy stuff with placement and sizing editing the file directly.

[Crimson Cuttlefish]

I don't want this feature, personally. The point of sok-worlds is to make worlds with what incredibly limited assets are available. While I would appreciate maybe one more free stock image site to grab from, being able to upload your own assets would simply be too much freedom in a platform that's meant to be about creativity bred from harsh limitation.
I do want eraser sizing and undoing though

[Qwazzy]

I'm conflicted. On one hand, the limitation makes for some fun worlds and a great style that would vanish if you could use any image you wanted.

On the other hand, the fact that there are so few games like this for easy map-making is depressing. Most games or engines that make mapping easy still require you to do things like converting images to texture-specific file types. Being able to build a map by just dropping in pictures is super cool and I wish there were more games that let you do that with whatever images you want, rather than having to learn some mapping SDK.

or tl;dr - This game is great for the limitation, but I wish there was another game with this map-making style that let you use any image you wanted.

[Mandrag0ra]

I thought about this too and I'm worried it could actually damage sok-worlds. If you can upload anything you could upload inappropriate things or potentially even have a security issue.

[Conspicuous Coyote]

You technically can upload your own images. Sok worlds uses Pixabay, which allows users to upload their own images. I don't know a whole lot about how the website works but I do understand newly uploaded images won't show up in Soks world searches, and that soks world only shows a single page of search results, so finding anything you upload could be tricky.

I'd rather see better pixabay integration, such as allowing us to browse multiple pages, insert specific image URLs from the website directly, as well as let us search pixabays library of music/audio.
It would be nice if we could connect music/audio to images in Soks world to create more localized ambience/moods instead of just the same track on a loop forever which is supposed to cover the mood of an entire world.

I'm really enjoying the simplistic creation Soks worlds offer, and feel a few tweaks could really makes the creative side of the experience far deeper and better.

Also a way to delete/remove images that fail to load would be really appreciated, like g'damn does it ruin the creative experience when an image just decides to break and you're stuck with a fail load forever marring your world.

it also means creators who make worlds and have fail loads in the future cannot go back and maintain their maps, as there's no way to interact with or remove images that do not load properly.

I want to also thank the soks worlds dev for this creation, it's a really neat sandbox experience that opens up creativity for a wide range of users. I've enjoyed working on my own world and enjoyed exploring the worlds of others. It's fun to see what people make.