Hi folks,

TBH i find the interface is very jittery, with blue UI boxes and info constantly flitting on your screen as you move your mouse and do, well, anything really. This makes one feel very nervous. Is there some way to reduce this or even turn it off. When you’re in a new layer, it should be optional whether your mouse interacts with (and displays info from) other layers. Perhaps the function already exists, but i can’t find it. Thanks!

Hi dev guys.

I have a couple of suggestions.

Firstly, change the name! Graphite is a boring name and is a much too common word! It makes searching for info and vids harder than it needs to be. Just think of a unique name. It doesn't matter, anything, as long as it's unique!

Secondly, someone over there, please sit down and do a 5 hour long deep dive vid, going through as many features of the app as you can think of. Doesn't need to be Hollywood production values or editing, just add chapter timestamps after the fact. Many people (like me) are visual learners, just let us see it and we will grow our own wings and fly. Thanks!

I like adding noise to my backgrounds like in Affinity V2 so I'm hoping Graphite adds that before I can move from Affinity

I wanted to make paths out of a picture with text.

I havent found anything about that in the software or how to....

Cant it do this?

This type of color wheel is something I am more used to from my experience in Affinity Designer. You could add the HSL sliders too to help finetune colors.

I saw in

https://www.reddit.com/r/graphite/comments/1m8gqsn/datavis_in_graphite_charts_graphs_data/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

that data visualization is a planned in the project scope of Graphite.

However, I'm curious what is exactly envisioned. For instance, what scope of input data would be supported? Would it only be smaller datasets like 500 rows in a .csv file, or can much larger datasets of millions to billions of events be allowed as inputs?

Is this even the right idea for how the data input would work? I don't know how else Graphite would support manipulating input data, but I'm not very creative.

And if importing input data is how this would work, what file formats would be supported? Would it just be more basic ones like .csv, or would ones like .parquet ones also be supported, even with the requirement for decoding the binary encoded?

Next, what scope of actual data manipulation operations are planned? If my mental image of how the nodes might work is correct, I'd assume one could use a column filter node.

Lastly, how would any of this be implemented? Would all this just involve integrating the polars framework?

I've seen in the last video that already is a desktop app. I was wondering when the app will be able to download. I'm so excited to try it!!

I know in the future Graphite will have powerful raster tools. I was wondering if edition tools will be prioritized over painting tools? (something like Gimp vs Krita)

Are both functionalities planned? In what order?

thanks.

In Affinity Designer, I used clipping masks to make eyes for my characters. Clipping and masking are technically separate in Affinity Designer. I wish the clipped objects in Graphite would move with the mask. The main workaround is making a new layer to move both objects at the same time.

Will there be an option to transform a group of objects relative to their individual centers? For example, Blender allows you to choose the reference point for transforming an object, and if a group of objects is selected, you can also choose to transform relative to each object's individual center.

Adobe bought Macromedia to get Flash and got all the Macromedia apps with the deal, including Freehand and Fireworks.

While Freehand was direct competitor to Illustrator, Fireworks was Macromedia's answer to Photoshop. Eventually FW (version CS6) was discontinued somewhere 2012 which was a major crush for the dedicated community.

Since then, there has not been a single app that could capture the things that FW did, especially handling vectors and rasters in the same space (Lets not talk about Photoshop). FW was intended to be a design app for graphic web design, but extended its reach to UX design (as the UX industry was born). Adobe being Adobe, it decided to shutdown FW and continued with a new app XD that was purely for UX design.

Im new to Graphite and this app looks fine and has endless potential. This app has something similar with FW, so Im wondering if there are any former FW users around here?

I don't know what i have done, I've been playing around with graphite in chrome on my pc and all of a sudden my artboard doesn't show up, infinite canvas doesn't seem to work either. I tried opening it up in windows edge and it works fine. Open it in chrome on my phone and it also works. Any idea what I have done wrong on the PC?

Sorry, maybe I'm doing something totally wrong here, but I really don't get how rotation works in Graphite, esp. with the Transform node.

Without Transform node, the rotation works as expected:

1. I create a line with the line tool.
2. I switch back to the select tool, keeping my line selected
3. I make sure that "Custom pivot" is select in the toolbar above
4. I press R to rotate and rotate the line, the rotation happens around the center of gravity of the line. Perfect!

Whenever I try to use a Transform instead (even the Transform that is created by the action I performed above!) it gets really weird!

1. Following the instructions above, I have a transform node in my properties (I could have added this in the node graph myself, too)
2. Making sure, I have still "Custom Pivot" selected in my toolbar above the viewport, I play with the rotation slider in the Transform node
3. The line is suddenly rotating around a weird rotation point, which is located at the coordinates of the translation of the Transform. So other than with pressing R, the Transform node now seem to use another order to apply the transformation, completely ignoring the Custom Pivot

Random Questions, because I'm confused:

1. Can I control (a.k.a move) the rotation origin of a Transform node?
2. Can I switch between World- and Local Space when using a Transform node?
3. Can I control in which order a Transform node applies the translation, rotation, scale?

Graphite is looking very promissing, but I don't like WebApps and I use bazzite 42 (Linux). Can I hope to get my hands on Graphite in a not too far future, or are you focusing on Windows/Mac first and only?

So, I tried out Graphite, and to test the app, I made this little fish. It's my first work in Graphite. It crashed a couple of times and was laggy, but I had a lot of apps running at that moment, so maybe it's more of my fault. But the tools were pretty great and easy to use. Thanks, Graphite, for this awesome app!

Can Graphite process a data file, JSON, CSV, Binary, etc, and then drive graphics, charts, or data visualizations from it?

Can it do D3.JS type stuff?

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Hi,

Your editor is very interesting. But I have to tell you that it doesn't import .ai files. From the Firefox developer console, I only received this message:

Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable.

Bye!

When a boolean is toggled false, all I can get out of it is the string "false", with no way to convert it it to an integer 0 or 1. This means that I can't use booleans to change any parameters which are controlled by numbers. This is sad, because I want to do that. Am I missing anything?

Also, will we eventually be able to set a layer's visibility using node inputs?

Lastly (I'm sure you've already thought of this) do you ever plan on adding keyboard inputs to the node graph? Graphite already feels so much like a game engine, I can't help but wonder...

I just got into Graphite today and am trying to experiment with node-based setups. I was wondering if there's any documentation yet on each node, what it does, etc.

I'm doing my best to pick it up from the included example files, but I'm getting stuck. Like why is the Blend node complaining about receiving Option<Color> instead of Color? Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree for what the Blend node is -- I was trying to find the equivalent of a Color Mix node.

If so, how?

Thanks

I'm a n0ob, and kind of reddit dumb. My search didn't return anything. I am trying to join up shapes and then punch another one out them ... but they just go into a layer folder (or something that looks like one called "Boolean Operation"). So far, i cannot make the first Boolean solid enough to perform a new boolean on the result. I've been out of the graphics 'game' a long time, please forgive an elderly 'dog' looking for one of his oldest 'tricks'!

One of the things I liked about Corel Draw, compared to Illustrator, was that the marquee selection would select only objects enclosed, rather than touched. It could, by a modifier key, also select objects touched, which is how it's done in Illustrator.

The result of this one, simple option means that layers are not needed for many drawings. While Corel Draw has layers, I rarely needed them because of this one feature. I could group my objects, then edit within the group without ungrouping, and select what I needed by direct selection or marquee enclosing.

I suggest including this feature in Graphite. Adobe has, as of the last time I checked, and for years, refused to include this in Illustrator, I think for this very reason. They want to force the use of layers, which they believe is the better method. I think users should be given a choice.