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deastman · Post by **deastman** » Sat May 01, 2004 7:05 am

It seems like you need to get some more information from the developer:

Should the graphics all be in one big file, one file for each button/knob, or one file for each button/knob state?

File format?

What resolution should everything be?

What about masking? Does each element need to be merged with a background? 1-bit masking? 8-bit alphas?

As usual, for GUI design I'll take the opportunity to recommend Art of Illusion, a FREE but quite full-featured 3D modeling/animation/rendering program written by my brother. http://www.artofillusion.org

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Sat May 01, 2004 7:24 am

Thanks Deastman; I saw the plug to AoI before, but I just grabbed it now and will try it later.

Good questioning there; very helpful

I'll slowly grow into it.

I guess I'd prefer using photoshop, as I think that is one amazing tool for design. A little teaser:

ddummer · Post by **ddummer** » Sat May 01, 2004 8:36 am

I made an action for Photoshop(6.0) to do some rotations.

80 frames(4.5 degrees each) for a full turn where it creates a new
document and add 80 layers with the frames.
(select the layers that should be rotated before
you run the action)

Then you got 3 actions re-sizing current document to 24x24,32x32,48x48 pixels where the
action will put all frames beside
each other to create a final bitmap.

The rotation was made for a 512x512 document so
you´ll have to change the new document post
or crop when the rotation is done if you are using another size....

http://hem.bredband.net/b161498/80frame ... resize.atn

//Daniel

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Sat May 01, 2004 10:16 am

Thanks Daniel; will be trying this out later

cbit · Post by **cbit** » Sat May 01, 2004 10:23 am

don't forget though that usually, knobs don't turn 360 degrees. They're much more usable if they only turn from the 7 oclock-ish position to 5 oclock-ish.

ddummer · Post by **ddummer** » Sat May 01, 2004 11:31 am

but a whole turn is more flexible since you can
truncate the end result any way you want....
(from the technical create point of view)

//Daniel

texture · Post by **texture** » Sat May 01, 2004 4:27 pm

Sh@ne S@nders wrote:http://www.futurehaus.com/reaktor_skin/

nice

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:01 am

Come to think of it, I've been getting heavily into scripting Photoshop with Javascript lately. I might look into creating some GUI assistant tools for PS or Illustrator. As soon as I'm over the flu, that is...

texture · Post by **texture** » Sun May 02, 2004 10:56 am

deastman wrote:Come to think of it, I've been getting heavily into scripting Photoshop with Javascript lately.

Has Photoshop got a com interface? What version did that appear in?

Rune L-H · Post by **Rune L-H** » Sun May 02, 2004 11:48 am

first one on google was a hit:

RLH Knob Render for Photoshop

under resources

I hope you find it useful

Come to think of it, I've been getting heavily into scripting Photoshop with Javascript lately.

Has Photoshop got a com interface? What version did that appear in?

Scripting support is a free upgrade for Photoshop 7, and an integrated part of Photoshop CS (As far as I remember).

I am working on version 3 of my Knob Render actions, which will be scripting based.

Cheers,
Rune

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Sun May 02, 2004 11:56 am

Apparently there has been some level of scripting support for a few versions now, although I just recently discovered it. Prior to CS, you had to download the extension from Adobe, but now it ships already installed. VBScript on PC, Applescript on Mac, and Javascript on both. The latest version (CS) adds some important functions, such as the ability to determine the size of a layer.

I recently developed a script for a DVD authoring project I was working on which required hundreds of menu items on dozens of DVDs. I built a script which generates all the menu graphics and then builds a DVD Studio Pro project file, all linked up, authored, and ready to burn.

A little help with knob design