Willing to pay for Infinite Canvas plugin or something

[Takiro]

@MostValuedPony

I didn’t see the reason why tho,

Here are a few posts by the developers:

Infinite Canvas

No, there’s no mypaint-like infinite canvas feature. Lukas Tvrdy tried to implement that ten years ago or so, but it is really incompatible with the way our canvas view is implemented. I also had, at one point, the content outside the image bounds showing up dimmed on the canvas background, but the KWord maintainer (Krita was part of KOffice back then) thought that was useless, and killed the feature and made it impossible to reimplement.

infinite size document

No, that is not possible. Lukas Tvrdy tried that once, during one of his summer of code projects, but Krita is too dependent on images having bounds. MyPaint was designed from the ground up to have an infinite canvas – Krita was designed from the ground up to be a traditional painting application.

Infinite canvas?

Yes Krita allocates layer data in small tiles, which allows them to grow dynamically. Rendering the canvas at dynamic size too could be a lot more tricky though. For example, I remember some commits fiddling with the guides and assistants which need repositioning when resizing the canvas. And I guess a lot of other parts would need to change too to cope with dynamic canvas bounds, including the paint device classes that composite the layers to a final projection, so it’s probably a bit late to…

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@BeARToys

Just a thought from my side, would an auto-growth feature not be sufficient?

For example

• you start with 100x100 pixels.
• And it only looks infinite, like when you use the tiling feature
• Then as soon as you draw over the bounds, which you obviously can not see, krita then extends the file-size in that direction, like now when you use those arrows.

That way you have the same performance as before, but it looks and feels infinite

That way you would get inconsistent pixel density and the quality of brushes would change depending on how much you drew already.