NPainter (wip)
A downloadable tool for Windows and Linux
NPainter is a free fast and simple painting software created from scratch. the most important goal is provide a powerful and lightweight tool for beginner and amateur art artists as well semi-professional artists.
This project is under early state and work in progress, however a demo is provided right now to evaluate the following current features:
- 100% Native and Lightweight: no Electron, no Qt, no GTK, no dear imgui
- Advanced Layer System: 25 blending modes, clipping group, folders, mask/stencil
- Brush Engine similar to popular manga software
- Bucket Fill with Antialiasing + Gap Closing
- Canvas View Control: zoom, rotation, moving, mirror
- Infinite Undo History: using compressed swap file
- First bits of Intuitive UI/UX
Follow development at: Twitter or Mastodon. Full Roadmap and Source Code can be found in Github Repository
if you liked it, you can support me with a coffee cup
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Install instructions
How to run on Linux systems:
- extract "npainter" folder
- inside extracted "npainter" folder execute "npainter" file
How to run on Windows systems:
- extract zip file into a folder
- inside extracted folder double click "npainter.exe" file
the following shortcuts are for demo purposes, proper shortcut manager & customization is work in progress
Layer Control:
- Delete -> Clear Layer Content
- Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y -> Undo / Redo
- Ctrl + S -> Save File
- Ctrl + O -> Load File
- Ctrl + E -> Export PNG
Canvas View:
- Space + Click -> Move Canvas
- Space + SHIFT + Click -> Zoom Canvas
- Space + CTRL + Click -> Rotate Canvas
Dependencies on Linux:
- XInput2: pen pressure support
- X11 & OpenGL 3.3: gui toolkit
Development log
- version v0.0.2 wip17 days ago
- version v0.0.1 wip41 days ago
- initial layer system + windows supportJun 20, 2024
Comments
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[Linux] when I click on "Settings" from the File menu, nothing happens.
Menus do nothing right now, those are just placeholder for now, except File -> Open, Save and Export PNG
Hey i love your art software alot could you add a feature where you can change the color of the canvas in the settings and add an icon to the art software itself and the option to make custom brushes soon and dockers and animation features?
i'm glad you loved it :)
About the future features you ask:
1) the canvas code allows change canvas color, set transparent and even change the transparent checkerboard colors, it's only left a GUI code to adjust that.
2) about the icon the program is still very early and the gimp pepper logo is temporal (probably is copyrighted by some image research lab)
3) if you look at my Mastodon there is a post of a mockup about how brush presets would look. Right now I'm focusing more in engine stuff before continue with GUI, this order would guarantee high quality code
4) frame by frame animation features are for a very future 2.x, the core architecture is designed to embrace such future features :)
Haven't tried it yet but added to my tool collection ;)
Edit: I've tried it! It feels like a professional's tool.
:D
Really snappy and pen support worked for me without a hitch through the itch installer (Bazzite/Fedora Silverblue with opentabletdriver installed in an arch box via a ujust script included in Bazzite). It's very clear there's still a lot to be implemented, some menu items simply don't do anything, but all the basics are there and feel great.
glad to hear you liked it and pen pressure worked on a non common setup ^^.
Right now i'm developing tiled layer system which is the biggest part of this project, after that and more gui toolkit rework i would be able to implement planned features more quickly
such layer system includes 25 blending modes, layer folders, layer masks and most important clipping group
Tried demo with debian testing:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by ./npainter)
Debian testing has 2.37.
Tried building from source:
Error: Could not read package info file in /home/luser/bin/apps/npainter/npainter.nimble;
... Reading as ini file failed with:
... Invalid section: .
... Evaluating as NimScript file failed with:
... /usr/lib/nim/lib/system/dragonbox.nim(78, 1) Error: constructor procs are only supported in C++
... printPkgInfo() failed.
...Just a FYI. Keep the hard work, It looks rad :D .
Thank you for testing!!!, i builded it with arch linux, so i will update demo binary building on debian to be more universal
Regarding building manually from sources if you used Nim package from debian it is also outdated, I will update README.md adding how to install latest Nim
I used this to install Nim universally https://github.com/dom96/choosenim
Windows binaries are planned but first i will work on layer system, I did Linux first because 3 reasons:
Let me know if you want me to test something. I use debian testing in a couple of PCs (tower [nvidia] /laptop [intel).
i updated build, compiled with ubuntu 16.04 LTS, it should work on any 2016 and above distro
It's working now. Seems very responsible. Looking good.