vPaint 4: Day 57

Automatic Updates

Revert function

.V4I image format

Layer Optimization

After a long break, time to post something. I'm currently working on four things:

• Automatic updates
• Image backup & revert
• vPaint's own image format - V4I
• Layer optimization

The last one is very promising. Layer optimization will reduce the number of rendered layers to 3. Even if you created 25,000 of them.

vPaint 4: Day Fourteen

Interference Library

UI Changes

I wrote a little library, called Interference, to handle tasks like image-color or image-image blending (AutoIt is so slow). Also, tools like Transform, Select, Brush now have their own context menus as seen on the image above.

List of effects (bold - effects using Interference):

Blend:
Darken
Multiply
Color Burn
Linear Burn
Lighten
Screen
Color Dodge
Linear Dodge
Soft Light
Hard Light
Vivid Light
Linear Light
Hard Mix
Difference
Exclusion
Subtract
Divide
Blur:
Gaussian Blur
Filtered Gaussian Blur
Motion Blur
Radial Blur
Zoom Blur
Color:
Chroma Key
Color Replace
Premultiply
Unpremultiply
Distort:
Glitch
Ripple
Wind
Render:
AND-based Sierpinski Triangle
XOR Pattern
Stylize:
Interlace
Pixelize
Tiles

vPaint 4: Day Twelve

Effects

Unified Tool API

Day 12 - I've added some basic effects (Gaussian, Motion, Radial and Zoom blur, Glitch effect). Also now, all tools share the same API, so adding more is much simpler.

vPaint 4: Day Nine (Part 2)

File Opening & Creation

Audio

Minor UI Updates

I've finally added audio playback to vPaint 4. It'll be useful later.

vPaint 4: Day Nine

Tabbed interface

Fully functional viewport

... (sound of me thinking what to write here).

vPaint 4: Day Five

History & UI

This is one of the biggest changes in vPaint since I started rewriting the code. Now the app natively supports multi-file editing and history for each of files.

vPaint 4 - Day Four

Text Objects

Nothing fancy here. All text layers are editable and customizable after creation. Now I'm moving to the user interface.

vPaint 4: Day Three

Live Effects

Day 3 - I've added new type of layers (now called Objects) - Live Effects. Similar to Smart Filters in Photoshop, Live Effects are not permanently applied to a layer. You can change their properties even AFTER applying them, without creating the layers underneath them again.

vPaint 4: Day Two

Drawing (Part 1)

Now, vPaint has only one drawing tool - a primitive brush. Just for testing.

Also, I wrote the basic code for moving and zooming the view.

vPaint 4 Splash Screen Design

Splash Screen

This is the basic design of vPaint 4 splash screen. Nothing else.

vPaint 4: Day One

UI Basic Design

This is vPaint 4 after first day of writing its new code.

What do we have:

• 2 different UDFs just for button rendering
• Basic code for layers, paths
• No image editing at all
• Riddicoulus number of lines: 1582

So, this is the first screenshot of rewritten vPaint, there's still hope it'll work better than 3.8