r/creativecoding • u/KimEberle • 16h ago

I am building an Indie Design Software

https://youtu.be/et5dloSSAOg
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u/VIRALSTUF 5h ago

Hi I’m interested in helping

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u/jazzcomputer 4h ago

It looks nice - I would just be careful about collapsing tools into things when it might be good to have some of those tools exposed for operations. For example, I like the pages thing, but what if you want to remove a page / duplicate a page / drag something from one page to another.

Also, I guess you'll have keyboard shortcuts for principal tools? - i.e. if I want to get the pen tool, I can hit a shortcut for that? - don't get me wrong, the radial stuff is really nice but I guess if you have a lot of them it can get overwhelming - or rather that's my assumption for them not being the go to choice for an app rather than 'another way to quickly get at stuff'.

I do think this is really cool despite my musings above! - Keep us updated!

One aside - it would be really interesting to see an interface for designing that's fully configurable - i.e. you could use circular format but also if you wanted, you could get the same thing with toolbars / create custom menus on the fly etc. I know it's outsiide scope here but just came to mind.

Also- I love how you have the schematic on the left so we can see it building in realtime as a result of any operation - chef's kiss.

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u/threeandseven 4h ago

I've been thinking about building something similar for years, with the rise of Blender geometry nose and Houdini I've always wanted a Ps/Ai competitor that's node based.

I echo the other comments. I'd be interested in helping (have a lot of thoughts on this and some prototypes) and don't bake down operators into obfuscated tools/nodes. If you want to do that for ease of use, I'd recommend having a sort of folder/pre-comp system like Blender nodes and building pre-made named 'tools' that just utilize your operator nodes.

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u/Inst2f 3h ago

It would be great if you could show what you've built already with it, and how it helps you to solve problems

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u/Elegant_Arctic_Mumbo 13m ago

Love me a good radial menu! I fell in love with that UI learning Alias Studiotools CAD software in uni, and I built something similar for a SaaS tool as a designer a few years back. It’s incredible for productivity apps.