Drawing tablets are supported and recommended, but you can also just use Keyboard+Mouse.
- Draw with the left mouse button (LMB) or with your drawing tablet's pen
- Pan/drag across the canvas with the middle mouse button (i recommend to map a button on your pen to the middle mouse button for easy navigation)
- Zoom with the mouse wheel. You can also zoom while holding CTRL and the middle mouse button MMB while moving the mose up/down. This is especially useful when using a drawing tablet with a pen.
- You can open files by dragging them into the window or by opening it via the menu (Shortcut CTRL + O)
Lorien provides you with different tools which you can find in the toolbar. If you want to enable a tool all you have to do is click on it or use the keyboard shortcut. If you hover over the icons you can also see a short description including the keyboard shortcut.
- The brush tool is selected by default. It allows you to freely draw on the canvas with your mouse or drawing tablet.
- You can change the brush size with the adjuster in the toolbar
- The brush color can be changed by clicking on the colored button in the toolbar next to the brush size adjuster
- It is pressure sensitve
- You can use the rectangle tool to create perfect (unfilled) rectagles
- Not pressure sensitive
- Allows you to draw perfect lines
- You can hold down Shift while using the line tool to snap the line in 15° increments
- Not pressure sensitve
- Allows you to draw perfect ellipses and circles
- You can hold down Shift while using the circle tool to draw perfect circles. Otherwise it defaults to ellipses
- Not pressure sensitve
- Allows you to erease brush strokes by drawing over it. Once the eraser intersects with a brush stroke, the whole brush stroke will be removed
- The brush size affects the area of effect
- When using a stylus/pen that supports erasing with the other side, Lorien automatically switches into the eraser mode
- With the Selection tool you can select a number of brush strokes by dragging across the screen with your LMB pressed. Brush strokes which are considered inside the selection recatangle will be added to the current selection. You can add more strokes to your current selection by holding down Shift while dragging.
- You can deselect your current selection by pressing RMB or Esc.
- To move the selected strokes simply drag them while holding down LMB. If you did not move your mouse while pressing LMB, everything will be deselected automatically.
- Press Delete to delete the current selection
- Press CTRL + C to copy the current selection
- Press CTRL + V to paste the copied brush strokes
- Press CTRL + D to duplicate the current selection
- Color palettes allow you to easily switch between different pre-defined colors. To open the pallete you have to click on the colored button in the toolbar next to the brush size adjsuter.
- You can add/edit/delete custom color palettes
- The default color palette can't be edited or deleted. If you want to customize it you can can make a copy of it and edit that instead.
- Ctrl + S: Saves the current file
- Ctrl + N: Open a new file
- Ctrl + O: Open a new empty tab
- Ctrl + E: Opens the SVG export dialog
- Ctrl + Z: Undo a brush stroke
- Ctrl + Y: Redo a brush stroke
- Ctrl + C: Copy selected brush strokes
- Ctrl + V: Paste copied brush strokes
- Ctrl + D: Duplicate selected brush strokes
- B: Brush tool
- R: Rectangle tool
- E: Eraser tool
- L: Line tool
- C: Circle tool
- S: Selection tool
- Esc or RMB: Deselect everything
- Delete: Deletes selected brush strokes
- Tab: Toggle zen mode (no UI)
- F12: Easteregg: spwans a playable character at the mouse position who can walk/jump/crouch on brush strokes.