Ahahaha... AAAAAHHHHHHH! No way in hell I will ever have that amount of anything on my interface, hahahaha
I do like the coloring of the dials, sensibly, but don't get lost in "principles" either. I'd love to let people develop a deeper understanding on how to expand and train their minds, really. Start to think methodical and nothing will distract you from your art anymore while you are painting. If you have 1000 different images in your line of sight, you may think it's ok at some point, because you somehow trained yourself to believe you could ignore them, but they will always be a distraction. That's my thought, for sure.
I could make eventually a kind of "beginners" mode, where you have lots of colorful little pictures on your screen and all that, but for a serious artist, this would be a handicap, I'm absolutely certain of that.
My god, I would go bonkers with that interface up there, haha, holy crap!
Verve gets a kind of healthy grouping, where you first have an orientation which dials belong to what kind of category (Project I/O, Canvas, Colors, Brushes, Layers....).
Internally each category has a kind of priority order. What has the biggest and most obvious influence, what becomes more and more a manipulation of details until least significant parameters.
Once you get familiar with this logic, I'll do everything to keep it as consistent as possible. This hopefully gets people to develop an intuition for it quickly.
We're not babies anymore, but so many tools cater to our infantile tendencies."Things can be so easy and that would be good", I dispute that heavily! Because it does not unlock our potential, but hide it behind our nourished weaknesses. That's not good. Engage your mind instead! That elevates your powers and allows you to integrate something new into the inside of your mind. No longer will you have to waste valuable thinking power on recognizing complex shapes, such as tons of little icons. You don't notice it, but it draws energy away from your inner creativity!
(This is a lot to translate, isn't it?! Hehe, sorry)
But it is a worthy topic to investigate, for sure! Even while Verve has the charm of a toy and you can have plenty of totally careless joy with it, it has already become a tool of enormous power, I believe. You can really go very deep already with it.
Naturally, I don't want to make it impossible to figure out, and it is a work in progress. I just want to keep a certain direction going and chief thought here is "professional simplicity", it that's a way to call it.
Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:32 pm 
The more easy 3D prog if possible! You have all on the eyes! 
