Verve : fluid painting

Vicspa · 31 Mar 2014, 17:36

Just installed it and playing with it, lots of fun, thanks Pilou.

pilou · 31 Mar 2014, 23:00

Yep a true gem!
I can't resist to doodle 20 seconds!

mitcorb · 31 Mar 2014, 23:26

gotta get this and check it out myself. One question, it appears that Taron uses a pen tablet. Is that so?

micione · 31 Mar 2014, 23:44

Tim,
pentablet, is perfect.
but also works well with mouse only

olishea · 31 Mar 2014, 23:55

no mac version?

this is the last mac I'll ever own!! this is the final nail in the coffin!

pilou · 1 Apr 2014, 00:11

@unknownuser said:

it appears that Taron uses a pen tablet. Is that so?

@unknownuser said:

I personally have a "semi-old" Wacom intuos3. It has always done a good job and still is all I have, spilled coffee into it by one of my cats and all.

Taron

Ps Verve use the "tilt pen" ! So maybe some pentablet have not this function!

Mouse has also a lot of fun!

Mike Lucey · 1 Apr 2014, 01:01

@olishea said:

no mac version?

this is the last mac I'll ever own!! this is the final nail in the coffin!

pilou · 2 Apr 2014, 11:29

...New version

Can't resist to touch this program!

mitcorb · 2 Apr 2014, 12:12

Got it. Testing now. It really revs up my GTS450. But Sculptris revs it even more.

micione · 2 Apr 2014, 16:34

pbacot · 2 Apr 2014, 16:55

impasto shading?

mitcorb · 2 Apr 2014, 18:00

If you mean the shadow effects of the brushstrokes in the previous image, then yes.

pilou · 2 Apr 2014, 20:36

@unknownuser said:

Verve is a tool to create art! I'm improving it to make it more and more powerful, but it is not my goal to make a physically correct oil paint simulation or ink or any of this. If I figure out how to make more exciting color mixing, I will put it in, but even then it will be a digital medium to create art!

OpenGL offers a way to instruct the hardware directly, but it is limited in certain ways, if you want to make it work as fast as it can. The Blend Functions in openGL are rather rudimentary, really, and they only worry about additive blending, like a computer does, like light does. If I want to simulate perfect subtractive color mixing, I would have to go around openGL and write shaders, which could do that. But this would mean extra processing on many levels, thereby slowing everything down a bit more. I'm not too worried about it, because I am planning on experimenting with that anyway. Just not now. First I want to make Verve enjoyable for humans.

Taron