Lorien

It's time for a new release! Notable new features include: much improved Antialiasing, SVG exporter, Supereraser, UI scaling for high-dpi monitors and the circle/ellipse tool.

Thank you everybody who contributed to this release!

Breaking Changes

Version v0.5 of Lorien features a new SuperEraser, which erases brush strokes as soon as it inserects with them. The previous implementation just painted over new brush strokes, which always had the same color as the background - giving you the illusion of a traditional eraser like in bitmap-based programs (Gimp, Photoshop, etc.). The old implementation has been completely removed in favor of the SuperEraser. The savefile format did not change. However previously made eraser-strokes will be skipped when loading .lorien files. Moreover when saving these files, the eraser-strokes will be permanently lost.

If you rely on these eraser-strokes: DO NOT UPDATE to this version or BACKUP you .lorien files before opening them in the new version.

Added

• Zooming with CTRL+MMB
• Automatically remembering and auto-opening .lorien files upon exit & launch
• Fullscreen support
• Basic SVG exporter (variable brush stroke thinkness not supported yet)
• Circle/Ellipse tool
• New eraser tool behaviour (SuperEraser): intersecting a brush stroke with the eraser brush removes the entiry brush stroke
• The window size will be saved and restored across program restarts
• Center the canvas based on current mouse position (shortcut: SPACE)
• UI scaling for high-dpi monitors
• Toolbar can be scrolled through when the entire toolbar cannot be shown
• Changing the brush color while having strokes actively selected changes the color of these strokes
• Translations: Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese

Fixed

• Fixed misplaced color picker after window resize
• Fixed keyboard shortcuts for MacOS

Changed

• Updated to Godot 3.4.4
• Enabled low-energy mode
• Improved brush stroke antialiasing
• Improved selection tool performance on large documents
• Removed old fake-eraser in favor of new SuperEraser
• Removed rudimentary png export in favor of the new SVG exporter
• Made the brush stroke optimizer less aggresive, which results in smoother lines at the expense of slightly bigger savefiles
• Increased the default pressure sensitvity from 1.0 to 1.5
• Lowered minimum window size
• Default to rounded brush stoke caps

It's finally time for a new release! The new main features in this release are: the new Color Palette System and the Rectangular Shape Tool. The savefile format did not change, so you are safe to use this new version. Just in case making a backup of your files is recommended.

Added

• Distraction free mode which hides the UI. Can be toggled with TAB
• Color palettes: You can use the built-in palette or create custom palettes yourself
• Easteregg: Pressing F12 spwans a playable character who can walk on the drawn lines
• Rectangle tool: Easily draw rectangular shapes
• Translations: Korean, French

Fixed

• Issue where the the mouse cursor vanished when switching from annother program to Lorien while a dialog was open
• Some UI elements were not hooked up to the localization system

Changed

• Updated to Godot 3.3.4
• Lines created with the line tool are now subdivided (more points between start and end point) so that it's easier to select them
• Removed the color picker tool in favour of the new palette system
• Removed the default brush color setting in favour of the new palette system
• UI: subtle rounded corners for most elements
• UI: replaced some default Godot icons with custom versions
• UI: General polish

It's been a while since the last update but here it is at last. It's a pretty feature packed release with a lot of bugfixes and improvements contributed by a lot of new contributors and me.

The main features i want to highlight are the new infinite grid and the copy'n paste feature.

Added

• Infinite grid
• Copy-Paste selected brush strokes with CTRL+C/CTRL+V or duplicate in one step with CTRL+D
• The selection tool can now also deselect seperate brush strokes by holding down shift
• "Save as" functionality to save a file as a new file with a new file name, while keeping the original
• Implemented "Open" and "Save" functionality in menu
• Translations: Spanish, Russian
• Open files via drag'n drop from the filesystem
• Open files via cli arguments and "Open with.." functionality on Windows
• Option to set foreground and backgound FPS in the settings menu
• Option to set the line cap in settings menu (flat & round)
• Option to change the pressure sensitivity by a fixed multilpier

Fixed

• Fixed camera position & zoom getting reset when switching between tabs
• Fixed an issue where a brush stroke disappeared if it got too long (See: #26)
• Use default canvas color from settings for newly opened tabs
• Fixed wrong pen pressure display in status bar
• Wrong scaling of cursors when switching between files
• Fixed issue where the brush tool won't activate when switching from annother program to the unfocused Lorien window

Changed

• Disabled VSync and set the fixed target FPS to 144, which results in much smoother brush strokes and a better feeling on low Hz monitors
• Lower the FPS to 10 if the window is unfocused to reduce the CPU/GPU load and save energy
• Improved camera zoom
• Switched to GLES3 backend
• Removed unimplemented color-preset ui-elements from colorpickers
• Introduced a minimum window size so it can't be resized to 0 anymore
• The selection tool now selects any brush stroke when at least one stroke point is inside the selection rectangle

Besides bugfixes, the most notable new feature in this release is the Selection tool, which lets you select, move and delete arbitrary brush strokes. Thank you @fenix-hub for the initial implementation.

Also thank you @irishgreencitrus and @albanobattistella who contributed bugfixes and translations.

This new version is fully compatible with the previous version, so your savefiles should work without problems. But just in case, please make a safety copy.

Changelog

Added

• Mention contributors in the About Dialog
• Improved closing of files with unsaved changes
• Export the whole canvas as PNG image
• Selection tool
• Ability to delete selected brush strokes with delete key
• Ability to move selected brush strokes
• Implemented the color picker tool, which let's you pick any color on the canvas
• Added an option to switch between languages: English, German and Italian
• Line Tool: snap in 15° steps when holding down shift

Fixed

• Fixed the size of the drawing area/viewport for high resolution displays
• Fixed some memory leaks
• Various smaller fixes

Changed

• Switched to GLES2 for better compability with older hardware
• Improved tooltip styling