NPainter

fast and simple digital painting software (Work in Progress)

Building

For now, only works on Linux/X11/XWayland. Arch/Manjaro is Recommended

# Building Fast Binary
$ nimble build -d:danger
# Building Debug Binary
$ nimble build

# Running Program
$ ./npainter

Current Features

• Graphics Tablet Pressure via XInput2
• Antialiased and Almost Consistent Brushes
• Fast Enough Rendering using SSE4.1

Future Features

• Tiled Layering
  • Raster Layers
  • Mask/Stencil Layers
  • Folder Layers
  • Fundamental Blending Modes
  • Clipping Group & Alpha Lock

• Transform Tool (Standard, Mesh, Liquify)
• Antialiased Fill With Closing Gap
• OpenGL 3.3 Accelerated Canvas View
• Basic but very Useful Filters
• Infinite Undo using Compressed Files with zstd
• Intuitive and Very Simple GUI

Very Future Features

• Semi-Vector Layer
  • Catmull
  • Bezier

• Frame by Frame Animation

Out of Scope Features

• Maximun Pixel Precision
• Very Realistic Brushes
• 1:1 Features with Similar Software
• Machine Learning Filters
• Animated GUI