When I paint with acrylics, I mix paints. For example I mix black with red, blue and green. This color is not very uniform, and it’s very nice.
Caveat: I’m not concerned too much about RGB values. I’d like to see variation in color, where some percentage is a tru mix (black or grey) and some percentage is partial mix…
You could have saved yourself some typing by using the search first.
This is their license
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This code is for non-commercial use only. It is provided for research and evaluation purposes.
If you wish to obtain commercial license, please contact: mixbox@scrtwpns.com
So useless to Krita as is. I don’t even know if writing an original code, but using their approach or ‘formulas’ would be legal.
Not forgetting we would need a enthusiast coder to do this, as the main team don’t consider Real Pigments an urg…
Okay, the answer was pretty clear: as long as we have Krita in any stores, we cannot use Mixbox. They offered two suggestions, one was we create a closed-source plugin for Krita that would only be available in the stores, or they would fork part of Krita and create a plugin that links to mixbox and distribute that themselves. Both would violate the GPLv3.
So, yes, GitHub - joeedh/pigment-painter is probably the only way forward for anyone who wants to implement this in Krita.
I saw a software called Mixbox that make pigments behave like their real life paint counterparts and I would love to have this in Krita. However, the developers of the software claim the only way to implement this new blend mode is if the developers of Krita themselves add it in. I’m not a programmer and I’m sure other artists other than myself would love to have this, so could this ever be done? Is there a better place or platform to suggest this?
“add-on” in question:
Hello and welcome to the forum,
You’re not the first, and definitely not the only one wanting ‘real life’ color mixing in Krita. Also, not the first to think Mixbox is a good and convenient solution.
Here some topics discussing Mixbox in specific:
Mixbox for Krita!
Implementing MixBox mixing for Krita
Resume: Mixbox has incompatible license and probably will never be implemented in Krita, as stand right now.
The alternative, which already has the heavy lifting done from what I understood:
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There are now two people working on including the Spectral.js plugin into Krita, @urzeye (who started and did lots of work) and @rvanwijnen (who is the original author of the Spectral.js code) (both are volunteers). It’s not MixBox, but the expected results are similar (more “real-life” mixing and blue and yellow resulting in green).
Thank you very much for all the info! I know now what to search for
