Tapered Vector Lines

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Hi!

This one is simple. Simple to say, hopefully for develop also.

Is it possible to add tapered lines in the vector art layer. A long taper to almost emulate a thin to thick pressured paint stroke.

Thanks guys, keep up the awesome work!

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In my opinion, for the Vector part, Krita is not up to all the Inkscape tools (also open source), at most it can get to Karbon but it takes time to calculate the movements of the objects; I tried to make a kind of flyer in Krita but the writing that filled half an A4 sheet took so long to calculate the movements I made that I gave up and did it with Inkscape (among other things Krita imports simple SVG files, that is without special effects or text)

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Could you please give us examples about this feature request? like some similar features in other softwares, or a quickly mocck-up edit image for the idea that you wanted to be added in the Krita brush editor or tool bar. Please :pray:

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@ForeverNoob
You might want to vote for your feature request. Right now votes are sitting at zero. Getting lots of votes doesn’t guarantee anyone will take on the project but the number of votes does give developers and volunteers a sense for the popularity or desire for a feature.

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That would be too bad. It would be pointless adding a feature that would not benefit the greater community. If people don’t feel it is necessary and end up not using it - it’s just bloat. Just because I would personally find it useful does not mean the greater community would. If I find myself needing to indulge in that particular art style again, I’ll just take the image into inkscape and back again for color. No biggie. For the most part, there is some vector processing that Krita can do - I am still grateful

Sooz, u are always kind and supportive. I dig your attitude bro - keep up the excellent work!

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So Sorry, I did not see yours and Roberto’s reply.

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It could possibly be tricky in terms of development, I don’t know. Krita is already a awesome piece of software, does vector and raster on the fly - trust me when I say bro, for a free piece of software to do that. This little thing is but a grain of salt in a desert of features.

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I would like this feature too. (It is a variable version of Path’s offset feature.)
so I vote to it.

I found some websites about infomation (with UI,UX) ever,for help user and developper.
It would be to adjust the line width and thickness Ideally by manipulating the widget, as shown in the live demos below .
FYI:

An useful documentation of the bezier curve by same author.
Explained with live demos and various mathematical formulas.

It would be great to write these in Python and then implement them as Krita plugins or directly.
(If this functionality can be implemented, it may also be possible to achieve path offsets too.)

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…what I don’t understand, is why this isn’t already a thing, when arrow tips are a feature we can slap onto both ends of the vector line as it already exists currently. Someone could probably even just do a rush job of it by coding a negative shape mask for the tips that just hides the “broad ends” from the rendering engine. (it doesn’t have to be 100% parity)

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:slight_smile: Hello @iller-hulbert and welcome to the forum!

If it was a thing you could “just do” in your lunch break, I think Krita would already have it, but it seems to be more than a few lines of code. Since Krita only has a handful of full-time developers, and the text tool is being completely rewritten, and Krita is also being prepared for the switch to Qt6, and bugs need to be fixed and whatnot. Our developers are “just” humans, not robots who can work 24/7, so some things just take time or perhaps very capable volunteers who will do it, but so far even our most skilled volunteers didn’t throw their hat in to take over the job. :wink:

Well then, and since no one hinders you to “just” code it, Krita is open source, here you’ll find Krita’s source code and the here you’ll find the API as well as other things like the class hierarchy …

Michelist

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I have been secretly developing a path offset plugin for about eight months.
I have finally gotten it to work to a certain extent recently, but there are some bugs so I have no idea when it will be released.
It is true that by modifying the offset line end cap it is possible to create arrows or tapered lines.

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Having worked on it this far, I have realized that offset is a destructive process. :smiling_face_with_tear:
I think what the krita users really need are tapered lines equivalent to non-destructive such as the line profiles or appearance feature Adobe Illustrator has.
it is a style that follows in real time with a path.

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