pyrochild Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Download from my plugin set Effects -> Object -> Trail... The area around the object or text must be transparent. In other words, it should be on its own layer. Want to learn how to use the plugin to make something like this? Click here! 1 Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Amazing plugin, kudos to you Pyro. Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sozo Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Oh, I like, this looks easier than my method of doing shadows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdnnoob Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 (edited) A most brilliant plugin! I use it all the time for 3D text now ^^ I just came up with an idea for an increase in functionality Here it be: gradual change in hue/size/rotation/etc. ability to adjust fade step and above mentioned "gradual change" It would make the plugin and user inteface a whole lot more complicated, but I would definitely find it useful when trying to add perspective to my 3D text... please? Edited March 8, 2011 by pdnnoob Quote No, Paint.NET is not spyware...but, installing it is an IQ test. ~BoltBait Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich. It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. ~Ego Eram Reputo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadJik Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 ability to adjust fade step and above mentioned "gradual change" +1: the fade out seems to be on the last 10-20% of the distance. Would be nice to be able to change this with a slider (like -100 to 100). Thanks a lot. Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Request: can the Distance be increased? 500px can be limiting on large images. Thanks! Ref Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 ^^ In these cases, I like to make the maximum value dynamic; based on the size of the canvas/selection. Quote (June 9th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 I suspect one reason for the limit is that large values can greatly slow the effect. I don't know what algorithm Trail uses, but I wouldn't be surprised if it basically amounts to searching opposite to the trail direction until an opaque pixel is encountered. For a long trail, that can result in a lot of per-pixel operations. If the high-quality option is implemented by multisampling, then that multiplies the number of operations by the number of subsamples per pixel. For large canvases (where long trails would be most common) the effect may be very slow. There is, of course, the argument that slow is better than unable-to-do-it. Provided Trail can properly abort the current rendering operations when the settings are changed, so that a user can reduce the trail-length if the effect is taking too long, the problem might not be too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 I don't have time to get to this right now but in the meantime I just put it up on GitHub so have at it: https://github.com/bsneeze/pdn-trail Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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