The next step in drawing training software - 

Drawing master Line - Angle is the ultimate drawing training tool, In this major update, we fix issues/bugs and make lots of improvements, from big changes to the drawing master engine (which will be a strong foundation for the next two apps in the series) to reworking two of the four practice types from scratch and adding the highly requested performance stats. This update fully changes the drawing master experience and makes it even better.

New curved line practice type

With the help of your feedback, we rework the curved line practice. In this rework, our mission was to make all the software fully procedural, easy to manipulate, with a better difficulty curve that helps the user to improve faster with a better UI readability.

Help the user to improve faster:

The old system with all the guides on was extremely hard for beginners in comparison to the other practices, and that was because of the lack of tracing guides and random complexity. 

To fix it, we implemented a new curve generator that also generates multiple point guides that follow the line path. The number of points or resolution can be adjusted so you can decrease these points as you improve. 

Fully procedural:

The old practice type doesn't generate curves. All curves were hand created and not smooth which limited the possibilities to downloaded curves and custom created ones for new practice variations. 

With the new system, all curved lines are mathematically generated and smoother, but that is not all; we implemented extra options for the curve generation, 2 sizes, 3 levels of complexity, and a special curve type, spirals, which also have 3 levels of adjustable complexity.

easy to manipulate:

we reworked the custom line creation. Instead of drawing custom lines, now you can manipulate the generated curve adjusting the complexity and moving the blue points to transform the curve.

We also rework the curve file system, so now it is easier to download new curves and install them.

New 3D Line practice

In the beginning, we implemented 3d line as a simple practice, a practice when you trace a line of a 3d cube with random rotation and size. We want to take this practice even further. We make it visually more attractive, replace the cube randomizer with a random perspective camera, and take it a step closer to the next level in the series. 

visually more attractive:

We make a beautiful animated 3d scene that feels alive. Instead of tracing an edge of the cube, now you need to trace the top edge of the bench. The bench can be manipulated just like the old cube, also you can still use the cube as a reference but with the new upgrades.

random perspective camera:

Instead of generating new practices by rotating and changing the size of the object randomly, we move the camera as we intended from the beginning. With this change, the line is now distorted by perspective (the axis pivots shows the current perspective) and is easier to manipulate (the camera can be moved from the generated perspective).

one step closer to the next level:

Lots of elements in the scene can be distracting but are also a helpful reference guide. Tracing lines correctly in that condition is important when tracing lines in more complex drawings with multiple lines. Now this will take you a step closer to the next practice types in shapes/proportion. We also delete the blue line. Now you can reproduce a line tracing animation of the line that needs to be traced, which is more clear and easy to understand.

at the moment, 3d line is for straight lines only, but we have plans to update it, including autogenerated 3d curved lines.

New performance stats

We consider the performance stats since the beginning of the development, and now is here, we know that the performance stats are really important to know your progress along the time and know what skills you need to practice more. 

(the performance stats is still in beta, and you can only view the last 7 days, but all the days are registered and saved, also the use time)

Improvements

Point guides:

We change all the point guides in the software, with the diamond points wasn't clear where exactly you need to put the pencil, so we replace them with little points of the size of the pointer.

Locked position by default: 

The start position where mouse/pencil option is now disabled by default and the locked position is enabled instead. 

This behavior was very chaotic when you don't know what is happening. It was enabled by default because it's the way we want the curved line and 3d line to behave initially. When drawing in digital, the canvas is not static, you can move it, meaning that you can start any line anywhere, so we want to recreate that behavior. now you need to enable it.

Other:

- Updated input engine and fixed various issues with the tablet input and tracing feedback.

- Improvements and balance fixes on the success/fail detection of the line between the different accuracy options.

- Scripts optimizations for a smoother experience.

- UI improvements and bug fixes.

- Added graphics option in the settings for the 3d line practice type.

- Added language in the config file, so now you can change it from there.

- Added an update behavior if you have the old files (1.2.1 version)

- Added installer.

- Other bug fixes.