Scoop of Oatmeal, May '26

Paint a Galaxy

The rewrite/redesign released in March promised greater productivity from a code technical perspective, and a UI that could more easily adapt to additional features. Good news, it worked! I've been able to release many large and small features the past 2 months:

• choose placement of unique systems (by setting initializiers)
• set custom solar system names
• configurable snap-to-grid with various grid types (square, triangle, hex, radial)
• new drawing tools (ellipse, rectangle, line)
• export and import projects
• clone projects
• pan the map with arrows/WASD
• step-specific canvas opacity settings (so you can optionally reference your painting or uploaded image in the Tweak step)
• in-app guides for Gigastructural Engineering core
• various fixes to both the app and the mod

Paint a Galaxy is still my focus. In the coming weeks, I plan to work on:

• custom fallen empire spawn areas
• move systems with a drag & drop tool
• symmetry tools

Then I'll run another poll in Discord to help drive priorities.