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[Simon Brown]

Have you ever been working on a tutorial in which you wanted to show transparency? Have you ever needed to save an image as JPEG or BMP but still wanted to show transparency? This render plugin draws a checkboard similar to the one shown in Paint.NET permanently to the layer.



http://code.google.com/p/checkboard/

[toe_head2001]

Hey thanks man. That's actually pretty useful. It's faster than using the grid plugin.

btw, I think it's called a checkerboard.

[Myrddin]

Or chequerboard if you're a little European, as Simon is.

Useful plugin as always, Simon, well done.

Wait, is that a screenshot of the plugin at work?! Are you feeling okay, Simon?

[Simon Brown]

I'm re-releasing this under GPL3 - mostly as a test. I won't post on SourceForge to avoid bothering them, if enough people try to improve it i'll use my own site to organise it.

[pyrochild]

I'd offer up my SVN server as a place for the code to live, but that system's been gutted; its drives are all in other machines or dismantled, and it has no network card. No NIC = no server. I'm not entirely sure it even has a processor at the moment...

Its OS drive is actually the one being used in this machine right now, unmodified, so it still has all the stuff it would need to act as a server, but this box has huge power-suckers of a GPU and CPU, not to mention the fact that it's liquid cooled and thus overclocked to hell*. It has a tendency to spin the meter, not to mention serve as a makeshift space heater.

*Normally that works the other way around...

[Simon Brown]

I've moved it to Google Code. Remember that this is still an "experiment" of open source effect maintenance.