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Kaiser Yoshi

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  1. I just started P.N up this morning to do some texturing. The plugin I use the most doing this is Dents, so before long I pick that out of the menu... only to find that an utterly sterilized version, that doesn't come anywhere near the usefulness of the original, has been crammed in place of the plugin version. To top this off, Plugin Load Errors says that the original, superior version wasn't loaded because P.N already has a Dents effect.

    I'm going back to the old P.N right now, but... why? What's the point of preventing someone from using a plugin just because there's already an effect of that name? Especially when the existing one is outclassed by orders of magnitude by the original? What was the motivation for destroying everything that made that plugin good, anyway?

    A note on the side: You plan on updating the effect emoticons? :AllColorChannels:, :AddNewLayer:, and :AntiAliasingOn: are kind of outclassed, aren't they?

  2. Its a shame these plug ins don`t have their own separate dll file so we can pick and choose which one we want to install. I never use the Effects Lab and when I just did try it , it made PDN crash and I had to restart the program.

    I used my bricks plug in through Effect Lab first but it would not render properly so I cancelled that and tried the Fire plug in and this is when I was forced to close PDN. I enjoy using the other effects but have no use for this one and I rarely use Displacement and Blur Maps or Channel Mask.

    Unfortunately I can`t remove them without losing the others as well. Maybe a pack along the lines of Madjic, Boltbait or Pyro would be better.

    This a million times. I've been wanting something like Selective Palette for ages, but I'm not interested in any of the others at all. I'd rather not have to install a dozen plugins if I'm only ever going to use one.

  3. Its a shame these plug ins don`t have their own separate dll file so we can pick and choose which one we want to install. I never use the Effects Lab and when I just did try it , it made PDN crash and I had to restart the program.

    I used my bricks plug in through Effect Lab first but it would not render properly so I cancelled that and tried the Fire plug in and this is when I was forced to close PDN. I enjoy using the other effects but have no use for this one and I rarely use Displacement and Blur Maps or Channel Mask.

    Unfortunately I can`t remove them without losing the others as well. Maybe a pack along the lines of Madjic, Boltbait or Pyro would be better.

    This a million times. I've been wanting something like Selective Palette for ages, but I'm not interested in any of the others at all. I'd rather not have to install a dozen plugins if I'm only ever going to use one.

  4. I've had six "out of memory" crashes (or so I assume; P.N randomly closing with no error message and no pdncrash.log when I make a complex selection with the Magic Wand sounds like out of memory to me) since Clear History was removed, and all of them occurred while I had a lot of unsaved changes. These crashes never happened when Clear History was available, since I could free up a ton of space by getting rid of the thousands of Pencil entries I create while spriting, and this is doubly good because sprite work is the most royal pain in the world to lose from a crash. I don't even know what chain of logic you guys were following that convinced you to take it out in the first place. Honestly, I really can't find a justifiable reason not to have it. o_0

    Please, think of the sprites!

  5. 5) Removed the "Clear History" button. Does anyone use this? The answer: no, they don't. Its existence implies that the user (you!) should have to care about the application's memory management, and I don't believe they should.

    ... I used it. And I DO have to care about my memory management, because I only have 480MB of RAM. And it seems a lot of the time like much less than that.

    :(

  6. Now, let's insert the Side of our box. Goto Layers > Import From File... and open the flattened Side image. Position it to where the right side edge is butted up against the left side edge of the other image.

    butted_edges.png

    ... ESRB rated E for Everyone? :?

    Great tutorial.

  7. ... the hard way. :/

    Okay, so I just installed a font. There are four new files in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts:

    fontproblem1sv6.png

    So now I open Paint.NET to use the fonts. They should be right between Times New Roman and Traditional Arabic... but:

    fontproblem2fu7.png

    They don't show up in the list. A bug? I think this is why everybody is asking questions despite the large number of previous font issue threads. The four font files are OpenType fonts, if it makes a difference.

  8. Okay, got it...

    Step 1: Paint the background layer a dark color so you can see what you're doing. Make the canvas 100x100 pixels.

    Step 2: Create two new layers. Fill the first new one with white. Make sure your brush width is 2, swap your colors so white is primary, then use the grid plugin on the second new layer. Tick the "Use Brush Width" box and set the size to 50.

    Step 3: Use the gradient tool with the mode box (the multicolored option in the toolbar) set to transparent to fade the grid into a reflection-like sparkle.

    Step 4: Gaussian Blur at two pixels, then Glow at two pixels with Brightness and Contrast at maximum. Rotate to taste.

    Sorry, no screenshots. Will make this into a full-fledged tutorial if anyone so desires.

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