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Express and Standard edition don't support DLLs But you can compile DLLs with the cl compiler anyway. Just what is the interface for plugins? *still waiting for answer in my thread*

lol. vectors are just points defined in three or two dimensional space (I guess the latter applies better here, since 3d modeling is something even different). Well... and when you describe your whole graphic by curves/lines and areas between those curves/lines, that means you don't put down a single fix pixel, you can scale the graphic as you want without any ugly borders Anyway, I prefer "raster" graphics, since, if you just make the original big enough, they are nearly perfectly scalable too. (and you can do nice effects with them )

I guess 99,9% of the people here won't know what it's good for (yes, this thing has a use!), but since it was hard work and I used PdN and some of the great tutorials here, I decided to post it

Try drawing solid lines first (at a maximum of 20 pixels), then use frosted glass effect with half of the line thickness as scatter radius.

*3 day bump*

Why are you doing that? Makes no sense this way round :?It's called "Draw filled shape with outline", so i expect the filled shape first and then the outline... (wouldn't it be just swapping two lines of code?)

Ehm... You don't need any key strokes with more than a key (+ modifier ctrl). Press Ctrl+I, release. Now everything except your cut out part is selected. Then press Delete and release (this way, all the stuff you don't want will disappear and not the piece you want )or do as trickman said.

I guess, what you want is just to see one certain layer, without all the others on top... for this deselect all checkboxes next to the layers you don't want to see.

lol... got the problem solved now by creating hexagons in MS Word and transferring them via screenhot But this really is a thing Paint.NET should support... (in other words: "Feature request: A tool for drawing polygons (shift = regular, same side lengths and corner angles), at least up to 8 sides."

I guess you meant "feature" Such a database surely would be easy to achieve (even i could do it in an hour or two ), but i don't think that'd be necessary with those few plug-ins existing yet. Instead a closed thread listing all of the existing plugins with thread link in the first post would be enough, i guess.

Yes, I tried it this way already... It works not that bad, but unfortunately i need 6 or 7 of those in different sizes and after shrinking it looks ugly A tool for drawing symmetric, "perfect" polygons with sides of the same length and corners with the same angles would be great (another idea for a plugin or another toolbar tool...)

With all the details and restrictions he gave, there is no reason, why it shouldn't be possible @thread starter: how about a sample pic or sth. or give more details...

Yes.

There are many ideas i'd like to realize in effect plugins, but i don't see what the exact interface is... do i have to derive certain classes? "look at the simple code of the glow effect" i don't understand it either. i don't have vs 2005 so i can't launch the solution and i have problems identifying the really important files and function (some seem vs generated) Please help me, if you'd like to have some more plug-ins Thanks in advance :wink:

if it's a file-type plugin put it in the "filetypes" subfolder of your Paint.NET installation, if it's an effect plugin put it in the "effects" subfolder of your Paint.NET installation.Standard installation location for pdn is "c:\program files\paint .net", just in case you wonder where it is.

afaics this "wind effect" is only about the left border... Try this: add as many columns of white pixels at the left side as the "wind" shall take. Select the first column of the real picture and the one left to it. Now resize this selection by dragging a corner, so that it fills the whole area left of the real picture.

Hello everyone! Anyone got an idea how to achieve a perfect (that means: all sides same length, all corners same angle) hexagon (shape with 6 corners) in Paint.NET? Thanks in advance

Lol. ? Read the text on the pic: "Thread Hijack In Progress"

Yes, RPGMaker is afaik with costs. Anyway: Program your own games from scratch! It ain't that hard, once you did one. And it really is much more fun, than being restricted by such game makinge programs! At least one thing in this post that is about Paint.NET (though it still isn't on topic ): I had ideas for two plugins I might write: one that generates an ascii pic file out of the current picture and one that slightly varies an image so it can hold information (encrypted files) which can only be regained if you have the original pic (already wrote some libs for this thingy).

How are you going to achieve that? And how are you going to make it harder to disable alpha blending?*just being interested*

Another thing: how about some ... ehm ... more realistic border between the sea and the sand...

Hm... if the sun is already that low, it shouldn't look that yellow and the sky not that blue... Apart of that you could add some palm trees, seashells, crabs and little waves.

Yes, it's like this. Btw, Instead of "installing" the fonts, you can just copy&paste or drag&drop them there

Welcome here! The answer to your question is easy: Select the area which you want to affect before actually using the effect (like Gaussian blur or sth.).

Yes, i used the paintbrush since at that moment you had not posted you method yet.Your method works fine and all problems are solved, but that one guy insisted here again, it'd be possible just by streching.