Path repeater tool

One of the reasons I really wanted to put in the free form path tools was to also allow using these free paths to repeat elements along. And now a first iteration of this Path repeater is implemented.

The path repeater node works with two layers in tandem, one layer that you want to repeat, where you also add the Path repeater node, and one layer that provides the path to repeat along. So after adding the path repeater node you then need to add a connection to the layer with path.

After that you can then set how elements will be distributed along the path, including setting offset, spacing and/or count. All while also being able to dynamically edit the path in the path layer. In this example it’s using a free form path, but any vector element can be used.

And, like all other repeaters, you can then go on and apply other nodes or repeaters to this repeater group.

Testing phase 1

The first testing phase is now ongoing with a first batch of external testers trying out Paragraphic. This has already resulted in a lot of great feedback and bug reports, and will no doubt continue to do so as more testers report back.

Changes and improvements

UI/UX

• Improved text rendering and UI icons appearance on non-hiDPI monitors.
• Improved hover highlights when hovering and dragging connections from sockets.
• New function graph visualization used in the Apply function node and other.
• Improvements to Line tool.

Generation / nodes

• New Path repeater node, to repeat elements along a vector path.
• New Repeat function node, to repeat elements with a single transformation (like scale) based on a function.
• New Set pivot node, to set the pivot point the layer element will be scaled/rotated around.
• New Text substring input node to get part of an input string connection.
• New Color adjustment input node to allow you to get adjusted versions of input colors.
• New Color from values input node to allow you to get colors based on input values.
• New Apply function functions: Ease, Linear Peak, Square Wave and Random Noise.

OS integration

• Improved handling of opening Paragraphic .pgdoc documents from file manager on macOS.

And many many bug fixes and smaller improvements. For more details on recent changes read the Version history.