A new awesome GEGL Plugin that makes a bevel using a unique algorith.
A high quality bevel plugin that uses a unique algorithm that by its nature dictates the bevel to be sharp in appearance. I have made many bevel plugins before this one (bevel, custom-bevel, glossy-balloon ect... but all of them rely on the same theory. A blur followed by an emboss. This is the first bevel plugin of mine to deviate from that rule. Distance transform, color to alpha and emboss is the core principle behind sharp bevel.
To see its very different sister plugin go here. (Sharp's description cites Custom Bevel.) https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Custom-Bevel/
Windows C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins
Linux /home/(USERNAME)/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins
Linux (Flatpak) /home/(USERNAME)/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/data/gegl-0.4/plug-ins
SHARP BEVEL REQUIRES MY EDGE SMOOTH AND THRESHOLD ALPHA 2 TO WORK PROPER SO COMPILE THAT TOO. If you use prebuilt binaries you don't have to compile anything.
Linux
To compile and install you will need the GEGL header files (libgegl-dev on Debian based distributions or gegl on Arch Linux) and meson (meson on most distributions).
meson setup --buildtype=release build ninja -C build
If you have an older version of gegl you may need to copy to ~/.local/share/gegl-0.3/plug-ins instead (on Ubuntu 18.04 for example).
Windows
The easiest way to compile this project on Windows is by using msys2. Download and install it from here: https://www.msys2.org/
Open a msys2 terminal with C:\msys64\mingw64.exe. Run the following to install required build dependencies:
pacman --noconfirm -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-meson mingw-w64-x86_64-gegl
Then build the same way you would on Linux:
meson setup --buildtype=release build ninja -C build
