trojan9x Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I was wondering if any of you have given a thought to the Displace filter in Photoshop as a possible Paint.net plugin. It seems as if it works off a simple function of wrapping an image to an un-even surface based off light and shadows. Here is a better explanation of it. http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutoria ... place.html I don't know how in detail the coding for this program goes, but it doesn't look like it needs as much as some of the other features already in place. Thanks for hearing me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Nope, no plans for doing that. Maybe some other adventurous developer can write a plugin though. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SearedIce Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I will try! Yay! This looks like a real project! The first problem I see is that this would require information from one layer to be used on another (in the above example, lighting information from the T-shirt used on the letters). Do you know how I might go about doing this, Rick? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Actually it's not possible. Effects are only ever given access to 1 layer's pixel data. Their execution scope is strictly limited to 1 layer. So for now, nope it can't be done. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SearedIce Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Ok...that's what I thought. Perhaps there is some way to use a plugin to save one layer's data (the surface) to a file, then load it later when the plugin is run on the other layer. I haven't done much programming that deals with the I/O of files...I would need help if anyone else is interested in getting this filter/plugin running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 You'd have to write an effect that has a configuration dialog and that also presented the standard "Open" dialog for finding the other bitmap to use. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SearedIce Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Oh, I see what you mean. I don't think I'm up to the challenge just yet...perhaps sometime later... My self-taught programming experience just isn't good enough at the moment. Someone with college-level experience or at least much more time on their hands should try this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trojan9x Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 Nice to see that there was some interest in it. Having very limited programming knowledge myself is why I put the idea here. Not know how much or little programming would need to be done with this I figured it was worth a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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