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Finally!

I found a program in the darkest corner of the internet that is like a mixture of OpenCanvas 1.1 and Paint Tool SAI aaaaaaand it has networking abilities!

It's called NyanChat and you can download it here~ https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u.....9/NyanChat.zip

Here's how to use it;

1. Run the NyanChat20Server.exe (if you're hosting) and press the listen button
2. Give everyone your IP address (you might have to use Hamachi if you're behind a router and can't forward the 2220 port), make sure to put :2220:20 on the end of your IP address, so the full thing you need to give someone should look like this - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2220:20 (but obviously with your IP address instead of the x's)
3. Run NyanChat20.exe and enter the IP address (you have to connect to yourself if you're hosting!)
4. Go to File > New Image and create an image at the size you want, the maximum size is set by the server tool if you want to increase that. Only the person hosting needs to create the initial image, although other users can create new images too. It allows multiple canvases that any one can draw on.
5. Once the canvas has been created, click on the name of it in the bottom right-hand corner in the Image panel and it should appear on your screen ready to draw.

The following keys are shortcuts;

Space - drag the canvas around, like in SAI and Photoshop
Ctrl - temporarily switch to the eraser tool, will go back to the brush tool when you let go
Alt + Space - Rotate the canvas. This can be reset to 0° by going to the View menu and clicking Reset Rotate
PageUp/PageDown - Zooms in and out, for some reason there's no GUI buttons to do this within the program
B - Brush tool
E - Eraser tool

There's a chat box at the bottom for... chatting

The brush panel down the right hand-side has the basic settings for the brush, including a brush shape drop down box and texture drop down box (these aren't labeled) and the "correct" slider is basically the same as the SAI stabilization value.

More advanced brush controls can be brought up by going to the Window menu and clicking on any of the brush items. There's panels for setting pressure curves, mixing, min size/opacity etc. When you bring these panels up, they will probably be collapsed/minimized in the bottom left-corner of the screen and will need re-sizing so you can see all of the controls.

There is also the sample brush panel which seems to be built in brushes that you can use, but unfortunately they're stuck in Japanese. I would translate them, but I would probably have to res-hack the EXE to do it, and I'm a bit too lazy to do that right now (I've checked all the external files and I couldn't find anything, so i'm pretty sure they're stored internally).

Oh, and if you leave or get kicked out, when you re-join, the drawing session will replay back until you're up-to-date!



If anyone has any other questions, feel free to ask, I'll do my best to answer~