Call for Testing: 2-Point Perspective Assistant

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Hi all,

  • First, thank you all for the feedback!

    Forgive me for the 1 and a half year absence and neglecting to follow up on a lot of important and needful things (the user manual, addressing bugs and essential QoL improvements). @tiar did the thankless job of picking up my slack, cleaning up after me and the mess I left behind.

    I’m catching up to the developments and discussions that have transpired. I see there is still interest in doing major changes to the Assistant Tool to make them more satisfying and easy to use, which I am excited by. @tiar has laid the groundwork by compiling common ideas in Planned changes to assistants coming in 2022 (or later) and working on many of them already. I’ll drop some thoughts I have shortly.

  • Anyway, In terms of features I think the 2 Point Perspective assistant is mostly done. Besides adding some more info to the manual, a couple other things come to mind that I’m looking into (which might have already been listed in the thread linked above):

    1. F118: The Perspective sensor for brushes is still not supported. I have not started investigating how this works yet since I personally don’t use it, and the Perspective Grid code is kinda scary (I’m pretty sure the Perspective Grid was a separate tool in the past).

      But I do understand its usefulness, and want to see it implemented since its weird that the 2 Point Perspective assistant has no concept of the Perspective sensor.

    2. F???: We still don’t have a 3 Point Perspective assistant! This feature is off-topic to this thread but I know everyone who likes the 2PP assistant wants the 3PP version.

      This should actually be fairly easy to add. Won’t be good in terms of usability and code, but it will be functional and work as advertised.

      It should probably stay in the dev version of Krita for a while though, or in a separate branch, to receive incremental improvements. I’m wary of seeing the naive implementation of a 3 Point Perspective assistant in a public Krita release. Assistants get saved into documents so incremental improvements will be hard to do if I have to also consider compatibility with older versions of the assistant. I’ll make another thread about it.

      3PP is functionally served by placing 3 Vanishing Point assistants or 2PP + 1 VP anyway.

    3. Please feel free to call my attention to something else that’s assistant related. Maybe not in this thread, I’ll post in the other thread shortly.

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