k.digennaro Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Im working on a picture right now that involves creating a lot of symmetrical shapes. Although i use a grid to help me a line the tops and bottoms of the shapes i was thinking about a project i did about a month ago installing a recording studio, we used laser levels to a line the sound tiles. I dont know you guys are familiar with these, but its basically a level but instead it shoots a light across. I thought it would be cool to have a plug in that did this for you. I'm not 100 percent sure how to would work, maybe similar to the line tool, but it would be a temporary line that would go away when commanded to. This can be achieved by using layers, but involves a lot of time, any thoughts? Quote Support Our Troops, End The War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 A plugin cannot do that. A plugin can only take the information it's given by the Paint.NET effects API (which can only be the selected area of the current layer), do something to it, and then return the edited pixels to Paint.NET. It can't do anything that sticks around after the effect is done, and you can't use any tools while the effect is running. Someone might correct me, but I think I'm right. :-) Anyway, a plugin can't do that. That's why a plugin can't do custom brushes. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 *) Make a new layer *) Run gridmaker plugin *) Delete layer ... You need a custom plugin/tool for that? 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...
k.digennaro Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 ^^david, you defenitly no a lot more about this then me, but wouldnt ther be a way to create something like an 'invisible' line tool, where it would disapear after a period of time or watever, cant a plug in modify somthing that already exists? ^^pyro, i see wat your saying, but im talking about something more complex than just a grid, i just found a post with a prospective plug-in that i think rick is working on and is going to put in PDN at some point, this is similar to wat i was talking about, maybe this plugin will be wat im looking for Quote Support Our Troops, End The War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 ^^wouldnt ther be a way to create something like an 'invisible' line tool, where it would disapear after a period of time or watever...? No. Plugins simply don't have the ability to do anything like that.^^pyro, i see wat your saying, but im talking about something more complex than just a grid, i just found a post with a prospective plug-in that i think rick is working on and is going to put in PDN at some point, this is similar to wat i was talking about, maybe this plugin will be wat im looking forPost a link. I wanna see what you're talking about. 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...
k.digennaro Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 here you go, my apologies, it was one of eds plug ins http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22271 Quote Support Our Troops, End The War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 It doesn't go away after any length of time unless you put it on its own layer and then delete it. You could make a new layer, and draw a line across it while holding the shift key; that'd keep it completely straight. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS92 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 or like a ruler or something...i know what you want....but i dont think that would be possible....because all plugins have been made to draw something or render....this is an interactive tool! Maybe Paint.NET v.4.0+ (onwards) may have it in! who knows but this is a good request...some genius will need to work hard on this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k.digennaro Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 or like a ruler or something...i know what you want....but i dont think that would be possible....because all plugins have been made to draw something or render....this is an interactive tool! Maybe Paint.NET v.4.0+ (onwards) may have it in! who knows but this is a good request...some genius will need to work hard on this! ^^^like rick starts bowing down and worshiping rick Quote Support Our Troops, End The War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 It'll have to be Rick. Even with v4.0, I don't think this will be possible as a plugin. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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