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Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

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783 points Keavon | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

For the past three years I've been building what I hope will be the next Blender, tackling the lack of any good 2D design or image editing tools outside the Adobe monopoly. This was our first year participating in Google Summer of Code and this Q3 update includes the big payoff from that, covering the most progress we've made so far as a project. If you're a Rust dev, consider getting involved as we apply for the next GSoC in the new year— you could be our intern next summer :)

Q3 progress report: https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q3-2024/

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deskr ◴[16 Oct 24 13:24 UTC] No.41858793[source]▶
Some suggestions: I was doing something and then suddently I got a red error message, "The document cannot be rendered in it current state", instructing me to click the Node Graph button.

1. I couldn't find that button. Perhaps show a picture of it or just embed it in the error message.

2. Make the error text selectable.

3. Let me report the bug straight from the app?

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noisy_boy ◴[16 Oct 24 14:29 UTC] No.41859440[source]▶
I got the same error when I was doing the tutorial (which went quite well) and was doing the steps for circular repeat of the sun rays. Pressing Ctrl-Z undid practically all the work instead of just the last wrong change (not sure what caused it).
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1. Keavon ◴[17 Oct 24 00:37 UTC] No.41865301[source]▶
Update: the issue with following what was shown in the tutorial is now fixed. Now the Fill and Stroke nodes apply to the vector contents of group data, which was the problem. (We made Circular Repeat produce a group of vector shapes to properly preserve styling information like gradients, which was why it broke.)