What's new in Lorien 0.6.0
Nov 6, 2023
- Added:
- Rebindable keyboard shortcuts
- Use eraser tool while tablet pen is inverted
- Dotted grid pattern; can be changed back to lines (or none at all) in the settings
- Translations: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Fixed:
- Fixed blurry interface on some macOS devices
- Fixed invisible cursor in some situations
- Fixed issue where moved brush strokes stayed in their original positions after exporting to SVG
- Fixed not being able to draw simple dots by just clicking/tapping the brush once
- Changed:
- Changing the application language does not require a restart now
- Improved translations: Spanish, Brasilian Portuguese
- Improved UI auto scaling, especially for Windows and OSX
- Moved to grid toggle button from the toolbar to the settings
- Removed the canvas background color from the toolbar and moved it to Settings > Canvas Color. The previous setting (Appearance > Default canvas color was removed)
- Savefiles do no longer store the canvas background color
- Updated to Godot 3.5.3
New in Lorien 0.5.0 (Jun 13, 2022)
- 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
New in Lorien 0.4.0 (Oct 10, 2021)
- 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
New in Lorien 0.3.0 (Jul 23, 2021)
- 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
New in Lorien 0.2.0 (Jun 5, 2021)
- 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