drakaan

One additional comment: it's "skies", not "skys"...you wanna make sure you don't let that get printed or painted on anything before you do a spell-check.

...two months I've gone without noticing this siple fact. I need to start paying closer attention to the status line at the bottom of the PDN window...

doesn't matter what you did *before* gif animator. Once you change an image to gif format, there is no gradual fade to transparent, it's either fully transparent or fully opaque. PNG supports variable transparency, but not animation.

I just put up a tut for square ones -> Square Glassy Button Tutorial ...and deleted it. Check out the "Making Glass Buttons" tutorial that's stickied.

That does sound like a handy plugin...probably better asked in the "plugins" forum, though.

Do you have an example of a picture that looks sort of like what you're trying to accomplish?

pyro...I can't thank you enough for this...can somebody sticky this thread?

It's definitely interesting, I think I preferred the style of the first one better, but this one has promise. Feels like it's missing something, but I'm not sure what.

Go to the effects folder and find the plugin, then right-click it and click "properties". If you see a button labeled "Allow", click it (do this for each dll in your effects folder). Hopefully they show up after that. EDIT: Not "Allow", "Unblock"...sorry.

Microsoft is the company that created C#, so .NET is pretty much it right now for windows development. You *do* have the option of using Mono on Linux (along with Eclipse or Monodevelop) for C# development, but then you might as well work in Java (very similar in syntactual style to C#, besides). The .net dev toolkit is now free (pricewise) in its basic version, though.

How about an "Icy Sig" competition?

How about best "explosion"...leaves a bit of room for variety.

Wow...this just hit me. Are we *seriously* saying that we wish PDN was more like MS Paint? :shock:

I was about to mention various and sundry things about slopes and those lines' slopes being different, etc, but then I tries to do what (I think) the poster is trying to do. He's right (to my surprise)...If I make a 200 x 100 px image and try to carefully draw a non-antialiased line from corner to corner, it has a varying slope.

Very interesting stuff...Where can I find the source for it?

Very interesting stuff...Where can I find the source for it?

I get a compile error in codelab that PixD is an unassigned local variable. (line 41, which is the "dst[x,y] = PixD" one). I'd very much like to understand what this code is doing, but I don't know enough about the colorBGRa type to understand why it would be unassigned after 4 lines of code that appear to assign values to its color channel properties.

I get a compile error in codelab that PixD is an unassigned local variable. (line 41, which is the "dst[x,y] = PixD" one). I'd very much like to understand what this code is doing, but I don't know enough about the colorBGRa type to understand why it would be unassigned after 4 lines of code that appear to assign values to its color channel properties.

Here's the best I can explain it. In this example, the image is 200 x 200 px. Say we start with this: ...then we do a radial gradient fill from transparent in the center to white at the edge (this is why I was asking about assymetrical radial gradients...doesn't work well on non-square images)... ...then we copy that into a new layer and use the panelling effect to shift the image 100px up (or down) and 100px left (or right)... ...we adjust the properties of this new layer to blend it in nicely (I just did multiply at full opacity)... The final image is what you'd typically get if you were using Photoshop, GIMP, etc, and did a "seamless tile" or "make seamless". There are plenty of other options beyond the radial gradient to deal with the sharp edges that sometimes show up. I can see how this would be scriptable/pluginable, but I don't know how I'd manage it. I keep thinking back to my copy of "Aldus PhotoStyler SE" that came with Kai's Power Tools (not sure what version) and HSC Digital Morph...This was back in about 1996...the era of encyclopedias on CD and the beginnings of multimedia PCs (IBM compatible ones, that is) being commonplace. If I can find my CDs (and they haven't been ruined by the kids), I'm going to try to find some of those old effects and see if any still seem handy. Anybody remember "Glass Lens Bright", or the Mandelbrot Explorer? Good times... sorry for rambling...So, who knows about plugins and ellipses?

Here's the best I can explain it. In this example, the image is 200 x 200 px. Say we start with this: ...then we do a radial gradient fill from transparent in the center to white at the edge (this is why I was asking about assymetrical radial gradients...doesn't work well on non-square images)... ...then we copy that into a new layer and use the panelling effect to shift the image 100px up (or down) and 100px left (or right)... ...we adjust the properties of this new layer to blend it in nicely (I just did multiply at full opacity)... The final image is what you'd typically get if you were using Photoshop, GIMP, etc, and did a "seamless tile" or "make seamless". There are plenty of other options beyond the radial gradient to deal with the sharp edges that sometimes show up. I can see how this would be scriptable/pluginable, but I don't know how I'd manage it. I keep thinking back to my copy of "Aldus PhotoStyler SE" that came with Kai's Power Tools (not sure what version) and HSC Digital Morph...This was back in about 1996...the era of encyclopedias on CD and the beginnings of multimedia PCs (IBM compatible ones, that is) being commonplace. If I can find my CDs (and they haven't been ruined by the kids), I'm going to try to find some of those old effects and see if any still seem handy. Anybody remember "Glass Lens Bright", or the Mandelbrot Explorer? Good times... sorry for rambling...So, who knows about plugins and ellipses?

Like this? Exactly like that...assuming you did it with code, and not by making a circular ellipse and then resizing it.

Like this? Exactly like that...assuming you did it with code, and not by making a circular ellipse and then resizing it.

You know...with a little additional manipulation, this looks like it would be the same thing as the "make seamless" option in GIMP. IIRC, from looking at the pixels that come out of that, it does some sort of contrast fade from center to edges in an elliptical (radial-type) gradient, copies *that* image, and panels the copy so that it's positioned evenly in the four corners (50% horizontal and vertical offset). I haven't tried to code any plugins yet, but if nobody else does, I might have to take a stab at it. ...anybody have any pointers on how to do a radial gradient that's asymmetrical (different horizontal and vertical distances)?

You know...with a little additional manipulation, this looks like it would be the same thing as the "make seamless" option in GIMP. IIRC, from looking at the pixels that come out of that, it does some sort of contrast fade from center to edges in an elliptical (radial-type) gradient, copies *that* image, and panels the copy so that it's positioned evenly in the four corners (50% horizontal and vertical offset). I haven't tried to code any plugins yet, but if nobody else does, I might have to take a stab at it. ...anybody have any pointers on how to do a radial gradient that's asymmetrical (different horizontal and vertical distances)?

Not saying Rick, necessarily...I don't know how many graphics programmers frequent this board, though. Basically, I was just wondering if the topic had ever been brought up before.