KnobMan, the VSTGUI AnimationKnob bitmap generator

[duncanparsons]

Had a little play - looks good

DSP

[brok landers]

me too .. though there's an awful lot to add, before it gets usable ... right now the flexibility is very limitied ...
like shading can't have directions and ranges, there's no diffusion for the shapes, etc ...
however, a brilliant idea is the shape+ and shape- stuff, which easily lets you
combine 2 or more shapes, and then emboss it as one shape, having it's own borders ... genoiusly! though i have to say that it's very buggy, but hey, it's early alphastage ...
but i'm so happy it's on it's way, so thank you so much again, g200kg!!!!
btw, i will open a new thread here for skinman, so things get more easy to keep track of ...

[Art60]

Hi every one,
I do thank g200kg for this wonderful tool, it's a really good knob maker !

It seems like I got a little problem, do you have the same ?
When making a Text layer, choosing another font than Arial (LCD like font, in occurrence), KnobMan still draws my text in Arial...

Any ideas ?

Thanks !

[g200kg]

Hi every one,
I do thank g200kg for this wonderful tool, it's a really good knob maker !

It seems like I got a little problem, do you have the same ?
When making a Text layer, choosing another font than Arial (LCD like font, in occurrence), KnobMan still draws my text in Arial...

Any ideas ?

Thanks !

hello, thx for using KnobMan

let me know if that is always occured on your enviroment or a specific file problem?
could you show me the .knob file if that is specific file problem.

[Art60]

Hi every one,
I do thank g200kg for this wonderful tool, it's a really good knob maker !

It seems like I got a little problem, do you have the same ?
When making a Text layer, choosing another font than Arial (LCD like font, in occurrence), KnobMan still draws my text in Arial...

Any ideas ?

Thanks !

hello, thx for using KnobMan

let me know if that is always occured on your enviroment or a specific file problem?
could you show me the .knob file if that is specific file problem.

Hi,
1000 thx to you !

Don't panic ! Font combo does work:
I made a little test yesterday, it seems like KnobMan doesn't like my very specific TTF for I succeded using other ones (Dot Matrix and other ones...)
I think this is the link where I downloaded the faulty TTF :
http://www.dafont.com/fr/lcd-lcd-mono.font

But don't bother about it. I don't care any more for KnobMan working with this font for its glyphs are finally too much italicized for me to put them in a rectangular cell with KnobMan and later bitblt them to my app (there would be too much space between characters when put aside).

Keep on the very good work !

Best regards from France.
Arthur.

[Art60]

Hi again!

I posted this on your site but it seems you never got it, so here it is :

1) May be a very little bug I just found :
When I set the right pane to preview and there are 3 images from the animation, it seems like the FrameMask settings are not well computed, though they are perfect in Render or Test mode.
In a .knob file I may send to you, I should have my Led "On" for the last 30% : it is in render or test mode but not in preview, it keeps "Off".
So if I want to work on it, I must disable FrameMask feature to scale and position my layer in preview and then turn it back on for rendering.
This is not a big bug because it happens only in preview, just wanted to warn you about.

2) I had a little problem too, when putting a alpha PNG on top, it seems that KnobMan is greying the image's edges when resizing and antialiasing. I think KnobMan should antialias it with the layer below not with background or any other one.
It's only visible when working at big ratios on small canvas, say 120x80 destination and zoom x4.
May be I'm wrong, but I verified every setting for lighting effects but I didn't succeed.
As a workaround, I built a larger VuMeter and then I had it downsized with a image tool.

3) I wanted to add a lighting effect of my own around the clipping led; making it glow when "on", but it seems that layer 2 I created may not be made semi-transparent so I had to choose an intermediate color between the underlying image and the led color.

Don't you think it could be an interesting feature to add a transparency factor to each layer ? (0%=opaque, 100%=invisible)
Thank you for thinking about it in a future release

Best regards from France,
Arthur.

PS: Where may I send you my VuMeter.knob file for you to have a look at ?

[brok landers]

Don't you think it could be an interesting feature to add a transparency factor to each layer ? (0%=opaque, 100%=invisible)

but it's there already ... in the colour section, called alpha ...

[g200kg]

Art60,
dont worry, the bug report is always welcome. and always helpfull for me

about font issue:
i found my bug about this. the LCD font seems special but not wrong probably.

preview issue: got it. can be fix in next release.

Png edge issue: i know but need awhile to investigate.

lighting effect issue: brok mentiond is the answer ? i hope.

[Art60]

Art60,dont worry, the bug report is always welcome. and always helpfull for me

Hope I won't use it too often

about font issue: i found my bug about this. the LCD font seems special but not wrong probably.

Ok ! So this may appear with some other "special" font. Thanks for watching.

preview issue: got it. can be fix in next release.

Thx, this would be nice!

Png edge issue: i know but need awhile to investigate.

As there is a workaround this is not a big problem but I admit it could be tricky to get rid of it.

lighting effect issue: brok mentiond is the answer ? i hope.

Don't you think it could be an interesting feature to add a transparency factor to each layer ? (0%=opaque, 100%=invisible)

but it's there already ... in the colour section, called alpha ...

Ooops! Sorry I didn't see this parameter (it is the first one in the list). I tried it and it does work, not only for "colour" layers, it does work with pictures too.
Can't be happier

Thanks for answering each of my questions, but one ... where may I send you my brand new VuMeter.knob file ?

Best regards from France ( No work today )
Arthur.

[g200kg]

1.20
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html

* support Exporting individual frames as separate bmps.
(please check the 'Preference' )
* BugFix: the rotation angle in the preview pane is not correct.
* BugFix: some Font cannot be handled properly.

Thanks for answering each of my questions, but one ... where may I send you my brand new VuMeter.knob file ?

if you can share in public. probabry many kvr knob specialist will check if you upload some webspace and post url here

[kylie]

1.20
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html

* support Exporting individual frames as separate bmps.
(please check the 'Preference' )

well, that's a nice start
this currently applies to .bmp export only, does it? hm, checked, png seems to works also...
but is there any chance to see .tga (with alpha) export soon? thanks a lot.

ah, and btw, file open and save as now always default to C:\KnobMan. that dir is even recreated with every start of knobman (when deleted). is that intended? can't remember that behaviour with 1.19...

-greetings, markus-

[TRN76]

Thanks for the update g200kg

is there any chance to see .tga (with alpha) export soon?

Man... really, there is GIMP or any other free converters out there

[g200kg]

1.20
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html

* support Exporting individual frames as separate bmps.
(please check the 'Preference' )

well, that's a nice start
this currently applies to .bmp export only, does it? hm, checked, png seems to works also...
but is there any chance to see .tga (with alpha) export soon? thanks a lot.

ah, and btw, file open and save as now always default to C:\KnobMan. that dir is even recreated with every start of knobman (when deleted). is that intended? can't remember that behaviour with 1.19...

-greetings, markus-

oops
Ive forgotten though Im preparing saving routines for that.
i think 1.20 will be a short life

about folders, a little confusing because of Vista compatibility.
(we cannot use under the \Program Files\ folder as a DataFolder)
please wait next release.

[g200kg]

updated to 1.21
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html

* .tga individual frames export
* default folders for (.knob / images / export) setting
from "File - Option" menu.

sorry for so frequent update

[brok landers]

better more than too less ...