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How to Write an Effect Plugin (Part 1 of 4 - Simple)


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I've never been happy with the C# Code Syntax Highlighter here on this site, so this tutorial has been moved here:

If you have questions about the tutorial, you can post them here in this thread and I will address them.

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Good job BB,

/joke/

but FireFly was asking for something easier than DotAtTheCenter.

You should have try DotAtZeroZero!

/end of joke/

What we are missing now is a topic where we could post our codelab!

Like this:

int Amount1=128;	//[1,256]Red  (1,256,dft=128)
int Amount2=128;	//[1,256]Green(1,256,dft=128)
int Amount3=128;	//[1,256]Blue (1,256,dft=128)

void Render(Surface dst, Surface src, Rectangle rect) 
{ 
   Rectangle selection = this.EnvironmentParameters.GetSelection(src.Bounds).GetBoundsInt(); 
   ColorBgra CurrentPixel; 
   for(int y = rect.Top; y < rect.Bottom; y++) 
       for (int x = rect.Left; x < rect.Right; x++) 
       { 
           CurrentPixel = src[x,y]; 
           CurrentPixel.R = (byte)(x%Amount1); 
           CurrentPixel.G = (byte)(y%Amount2); 
           CurrentPixel.B = (byte)((x+y)%Amount3); 
           dst[x,y] = CurrentPixel; 
       } 
} 

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Hopefully, thanks to this tutorial, we will start seeing a bunch more plugins being published. And, hopefully, they won't all be completely useless. :D

"Look! I made an Invert Colors plugin!"

"Paint.NET can already do that..."

"I know, but mine is slower!"

"Why did you even bother?"

"Just to see if I could..."

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I know C# (at least a little beyond the basics) but It has been confising to me because I can't do anything related to graphics or drawing. Especially making a plug-in for Paint.Net. This tutorial clarified a lot of things for me, but probably not enough for me to accually make a plug-in.

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What's the for loop for?

The loop is for processing each pixel of the selection one at a time.

The "for y" loop steps through each row, from top to bottom.

    The "for x" loop steps through each pixel on the current row from left to right.
      When you are inside of the x loop, you are working on a single pixel on the destination canvas.

Each time you finish an X loop, it processes the next row in the Y loop.

Does that help?

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At last i have found it!

My saviour!

i've always ben meaning to try to write my own plugin though now that i've seen this it confuses me a little .

if You say we need a little knowledge of C#, could someone please give me a link or something which explains how C# works?

For instance I don't understand why at the end of each line you go further and further and open (or close) a "{}"

Please help :(

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I just downloaded the new version. I never use it, but maybe I won't fell lazy one day and make a plug-in. :P

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hhhmmm ive been trying to learn C# this helps a little at the moment, i want to look over it more, that will probably help, i dont know if i know enough C# yet though :?

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