Draw Pixels (Native Extension)

AGulev · April 13, 2018, 12:50pm

Draw Pixels.apk.zip (2.3 MB) - apk for performance testing

Defold engine native extension for drawing pixels and simple geometry into texture buffer.
Thanks @britzl and @Mathias_Westerdahl for help.

(Like a result of this polling)

Feel free to contribute!

If you want to contribute and don’t know what you can do, look into next list:

Draw rectangle by two corner dots
Draw line with thickness parameter
Anti aliasing
(Done!!! thanks @thekrasnikoff) Bézier curves
(Done!!! thanks @britzl )Draw line

Materials
http://members.chello.at/~easyfilter/bresenham.html
http://www.sunshine2k.de/coding/java/TriangleRasterization/TriangleRasterization.html

totebo · April 13, 2018, 1:10pm

Great! Is this to be used for debugging, or fast enough to be used in games?

AGulev · April 13, 2018, 1:17pm

It depend of your game, but I have plans to use it in one of my game, yes.
I added into main post apk for performance testing.

AGulev · April 16, 2018, 7:02pm

NE was updated with new parameter “angle” for filled rectangle
Apr-16-2018%2021-36-02

AGulev · September 10, 2018, 8:29pm

Draw pixels NE has a lot of changes after my last post here. Small status update for people who don’t follow repository on github.

First of all huge THANKS to all contributors: @britzl, @d954mas, @thekrasnikoff ! Thank you guys!

New methods:
drawpixels.pixel(buffer, x, y, r, g, b, a) to draw a pixel to the buffer
drawpixels.color(buffer, x, y) to read color from buffer
drawpixels.line(buffer_info, x0, y0, x1, y1, red, green, blue, alpha) to draw a line to the buffer
drawpixels.bezier(buffer_info, x0, y0, xc, yc, x1, y1, red, green, blue, alpha) draw a bezier line between two points and one control point

Moreover:
Refactoring and code clearing
Performance optimisation!!!
Bug fixing

Release notes for every release avaliable on this page: Releases · AGulev/drawpixels · GitHub

totebo · March 14, 2020, 11:32am

Correct link: https://defold.com/assets/drawpixels/

totebo · March 14, 2020, 11:45am

Is there a way to draw on top of a predefined texture/png? Rather than starting with a “blank canvas”?

Denis_Makhortov · March 14, 2020, 12:16pm

It is possible

I did this right now in the example, so I will give the function code init

Summary

function init(self)
  msg.post("@render:", "clear_color", {color = vmath.vector4(1, 1, 1, 1)})
  -- size of texture when scaled to nearest power of two
  local width = 1024
  local height = 2048
  local channels = 4
  local file = io.open("image.png", "rb")
  local bytes = file:read("*a")
  local png = image.load(bytes,true)
  local my_buffer = png.buffer
  -- we have to create table with next fields: buffer, width, height, channels
  self.buffer_info = {
    buffer = buffer.create(#my_buffer, { {name=hash("rgba"), type=buffer.VALUE_TYPE_UINT8, count=4} } ),
    width = width,
    height = height,
    channels = channels -- 3 for rgb, 4 for rgba
  }
  local stream = buffer.get_stream(self.buffer_info.buffer, hash("rgba"))
  for i = 1, #my_buffer do
    stream[i] = string.byte(my_buffer, i)
  end
  self.dirty = true
  self.current_color = vmath.vector4(0, 0, 0, 1)
  self.current_tool = "pencil"
  -- drawing params
  self.prev_pos = vmath.vector3()
  self.resource_path = go.get("#sprite", "texture0")
  self.header = {
    width = width,
    height = height,
    type = resource.TEXTURE_TYPE_2D,
    format = resource.TEXTURE_FORMAT_RGBA,
    num_mip_maps = 1
  }
  self.rotation = 0
end

totebo · March 14, 2020, 1:35pm

That is BEAUTIFUL. Thanks! This is a powerful extension.

totebo · March 14, 2020, 3:55pm

I’ve been playing with this a while and it’s so much fun! I’m stuck trying to create “canvas” instances dynamically. This doesn’t work because the pixels are tied to this bitmap:

self.resource_path = go.get("#sprite", "texture0")

What’s drawn on one canvas is therefore also drawn to the other. One solution is to use two separate sprites. In my case that won’t work, because my (ambitious) plan is to create (literally) millions canvases dynamically, each different from the others.

Is it possible to create a texture on the fly somehow? I noticed this is possible in GUI, but I haven’t been able to find a similar way to do it with a go.

Here is a minimal example of the issue: PixelDrawInstances.zip (5.4 MB)

Edit: If textures cannot be created at runtime, I suppose one workaround would be to re-use a pool of 10 sprites or so, and make sure none of the visible canvases are using the same sprite.

britzl · March 14, 2020, 6:00pm

Well you’re going to have to limit yourself. Each canvas takes up texture memory and there’s only a certain amount of it available. Think of a max amount that you can support (think about target platform and min GPU memory you want to support) and design around that.

totebo · March 14, 2020, 6:22pm

Yes, wise words. This is exciting though, a lot of possibilities for a nice side project!

AGulev · May 6, 2020, 5:13pm

New DrawPixels 2.0.0

New API methods: drawpixels.gradient_line() , drawpixels.arc() , drawpixels.filled_arc() , drawpixels.gradient_arc() , drawpixels.start_fill() , drawpixels.end_fill() , drawpixels.fill_area() .
Antialiasing option for the following functions: drawpixels.filled_circle() , drawpixels.line() , drawpixels.circle() .
Line width option for the following functions: drawpixels.circle() , drawpixels.line() .
premultiply_alpha option.

Thanks @sergeysinyavsky for these improvements!

totebo · May 6, 2020, 5:36pm

Great work. This is turning into a Legendary Extension ™!

Tom_Arnold · July 24, 2020, 7:51am

Really great, thanks.

I think I have a really simple request:

How exactly would I add stickers (sprites) to the example? (As in draw with smilies or something)

Riad · April 2, 2021, 5:18am

Hi @AGulev

I’m testing your “draw pixel” code. I just want to draw a filled rectangle but it’s not showing me anything… I followed the instruction provided in the github…
could you please help me? I put a snapshot of the code below:

AGulev · April 2, 2021, 7:23am

Please make sure you update texture using resource.set_texture()

github.com

AGulev/drawpixels/blob/bc136d786d0e7b3d4c5aeb0a834217e825de35c5/example/canvas.script#L34


    type = resource.TEXTURE_TYPE_2D,
    format = resource.TEXTURE_FORMAT_RGBA,
    num_mip_maps = 1
  }
  self.rotation = 0
end


function update(self, dt)
  -- update texture if it's dirty (ie we've drawn to it)
  if self.dirty then
    resource.set_texture(self.resource_path, self.header, self.buffer_info.buffer)
    self.dirty = false
  end
  self.rotation = self.rotation + 1
  if self.rotation > 360 then
    self.rotation = 0
  end
end


function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
  if message_id == hash("change_color") then

Riad · April 2, 2021, 7:35am

Emm… that’s what I missed!

Thanks a lot dear, I’m going to test it…

Regards,
Riad

dlannan · May 8, 2022, 3:43pm

Wow. Only just saw this project for the first time. So awesome @AGulev !!! Really like the toolkit.
Using it to test a little genetic evolution program. Thanks! WIll post some screenshots once working.

dlannan · May 9, 2022, 3:31am

Oh, so much fun. Thanks again. I’ll put this project up sometime soon. Want to let the original author of biosim know what Ive done - its all MIT, but I like to make sure peoples work is recognised.

Original source: GitHub - davidrmiller/biosim4: Biological evolution simulator