Creating U-He skins?

[Ploki]

Nice, thanks! Python does look better

[Ploki]

Can anyone explain to me how prototypes work and how do i define them?

[Urs]

Can anyone explain to me how prototypes work and how do i define them?

Prototypes really only have a meaning for the built-in editor. Our designer usually switches them off.

The idea was to have a Maya-style construction history where cloned objects inherit the changes applied to their "originals" (prototypes). Such that, if you create 1 button first, then clone it 20 times, any change of size/style/graphics applied to the first button would also automatically be applied to all of its 20 clones, and their clones and so on.

[Ploki]

Can anyone explain to me how prototypes work and how do i define them?

Prototypes really only have a meaning for the built-in editor. Our designer usually switches them off.

The idea was to have a Maya-style construction history where cloned objects inherit the changes applied to their "originals" (prototypes). Such that, if you create 1 button first, then clone it 20 times, any change of size/style/graphics applied to the first button would also automatically be applied to all of its 20 clones, and their clones and so on.

oh my that's actually wonderful.

[Urs]

It's more like "Oh FFS!" most of the time when you rescale a knob and suddenly half the knobs on the screen do the same...

[Ploki]

yeah i can see that be a problem.
OTOH manually rescaling everything across X layers is just .. bruh.

"Save to file" however is insanely useful tho. I can replicate some things without too manual work

[Ploki]

And something that keeps eluding me:
is there away to alphabetically sort "graphics" selection dropdown menu in the editor?

[Urs]

OTOH manually rescaling everything across X layers is just .. bruh.

You know you can "draw" selections, much like Maya's artisan brush?

[Urs]

And something that keeps eluding me:
is there away to alphabetically sort "graphics" selection dropdown menu in the editor?

are they not?

[Ploki]

And something that keeps eluding me:
is there away to alphabetically sort "graphics" selection dropdown menu in the editor?

are they not?

sort of not really

OTOH manually rescaling everything across X layers is just .. bruh.

You know you can "draw" selections, much like Maya's artisan brush?

oh yeah, with shift - but can't draw across layers in the same pane

still, i have to give big kudos to the skin editor and langauge, its so flexible. I've started abusing blending modes with this one and it opened out so many possibilities.

[Urs]

carful - blending modes can look different depending on render engine... particularly Mac/Win differences. Hence we never use them.

[Ploki]

oh my.

[satYatunes]

is there a sublime plugin for u-he script?
18000 lines of code is a lot to chew through

I don't think there is package for that. But the built-in Python or C++ syntax work just fine for highlighting theme scripts.

I use notepad++ and have configured to color code U-He script.

[Urs]

Here's a few new things that we're working on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mRnbFXEYg

Stupidly the ColourLab currently doesn't update properly. Not sure why. It does make colour picking much easier though

Anyhow, you'll be able to use .svg graphics and you can do colour adjustments directly on an .svg/.png and save those adjustments with the Theme file.

I think all of our future releases will have those features. Not sure if/how the editors work on Windows/Linux though, we use do all UI editing on macOS ourselves. I do think though we have fixed key commands for the editors on Windows.

[Ploki]

Here's a few new things that we're working on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mRnbFXEYg

Stupidly the ColourLab currently doesn't update properly. Not sure why. It does make colour picking much easier though

Anyhow, you'll be able to use .svg graphics and you can do colour adjustments directly on an .svg/.png and save those adjustments with the Theme file.

I think all of our future releases will have those features. Not sure if/how the editors work on Windows/Linux though, we use do all UI editing on macOS ourselves. I do think though we have fixed key commands for the editors on Windows.

that looks cool af! should also probably work better with scaling as vs bitmaps now?
i still havent figured out what grid to pick so things don't go off-center when plugin is scaled - but what eases me as that stock skins go off alignment as well

I do have one humble request;
can you make skins read fonts from their own font folder? right now they only read custom fonts if they're placed in the global u-he font folder