[HN Gopher] Lorien - Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app ___________________________________________________________________ Lorien - Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app Author : sanqui Score : 65 points Date : 2022-06-12 18:35 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | moltar wrote: | Multiplayer mode would be a killer feature! | isaacgreyed wrote: | The fact that it's built with a game engine may make it easier | than it would otherwise be. | analognoise wrote: | I saw Lorien a while ago, when I was looking to build a Godot | program with an infinite canvas - some of the ways that the menus | are things are setup are really, really clever. | | If anyone is familiar with it, do you know where to look for good | examples of such things for Godot? Maybe the author will bless | this thread with presence and give us some tips or explain the | thought processes when it comes to designing them in Godot. | | Shoot your shot, right? Anyway, it's awesome to see it posted | here! | RootKitBeerCat wrote: | A wasm web client based version of this would rock | Shorel wrote: | Coincidentally, I installed and tested this last week. | | It doesn't detect the use of the delete button in my stylus. | | There's even an issue in GitHub about it: | https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien/issues/118 | jpgvm wrote: | Interesting that this is built on Godot. The Tesla Infotainment | UI is also using Godot so it seem to be picking up steam in this | sort of non-traditional application of game engines. Very cool! | Hamcha wrote: | Something cool about Godot for this use case: the Input API has | cursor pressure and tilt builtin (already normalized too). | | I keep getting impressed by how much stuff in Godot is... just | there. | S0und wrote: | This looks great, I've been looking for a replacement for | Mischief. There aren't many vector based drawing apps with | infinite canvas. | Hamcha wrote: | I tried it but like most note taking apps like this, I feel | like that drawing with vectors just doesn't feel that great: | The stroke changes a bit after being jotted down, the curves | sometimes end up jagged, the erase experience sometimes leaves | to be desired. And selection/lasso are either missing or | underpar. | | Mischief was the last app with this kind of features that felt | right to me. I don't know if it's the use of ADF (Adaptively | Sampled Distance Fields[1], think SDF but defined as | quadtrees[2]) or what. Honestly if it wasn't for the lack of a | lasso tool (which I was always hoping it would come until it | died) I would still just use that. | | [1]: https://www.merl.com/publications/docs/TR2000-15.pdf - | btw: Frisken made Mischief! [2]: Or octrees for 3D, which I | think is what's used in the PS4 game "Dreams" ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-12 23:00 UTC)