KVR Audio

bootsie · Post by **bootsie** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:16 pm

awesome - thanks for your hard work!

hajasal_sk · Post by **hajasal_sk** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:01 am

g200kg wrote:KnobMan 1.37 Release

Well... this really is insanely handy software. Thanks!

One little thing I'm noticing (introduced somewhere between 1.34 and 1.37) is that when animating the 'Angle(deg)' the aspect setting seems to get ignored. This causes big problems on my knobs that aren't 1:1 resolutions.

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 1:27 pm

hi,

hajasal_sk wrote:
g200kg wrote:KnobMan 1.37 Release
Well... this really is insanely handy software. Thanks!

One little thing I'm noticing (introduced somewhere between 1.34 and 1.37) is that when animating the 'Angle(deg)' the aspect setting seems to get ignored. This causes big problems on my knobs that aren't 1:1 resolutions.

Thanks the report.
That is a bug. Also I found the problem of the 'Image' primitive will not work normal.

I intend to release the fix-version shortly.
wait a moment

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:41 pm

okay,
KnobMan 1.38
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html

Just bug fixes.
* BugFix: 'Image' primitive is not fit to the knob size
* BugFix: Rotate animation is distorted if the knob aspect is not square

daz.diamond · Post by **daz.diamond** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:50 pm

thanks gaito - *much* appreciated

max · Post by **max** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:31 pm

g200kg.... just sent a pm to you about a problem with 1.38 and the same problem in 1.37... running on XP SP2...

When saving or save as a knob file, and making changes to the animation degree's for the drop shadow, the changed do NOT get saved to the .knob file...

I have now tried to save them at least 10 different times and in different ways but when that saved knob file is re-loaded the old settings are still there.

Is this just me or is something wrong?

Here is an example:

original setting for drop shadow animation:

from -50 to -45..

OK, then I change that to -50 to 50
Save the file... close and re-open it and the settings still read:
-50 to -45

....some bug in the saving routines????

thanks for your help and for knobman

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:52 pm

max wrote:g200kg.... just sent a pm to you about a problem with 1.38 and the same problem in 1.37... running on XP SP2...

When saving or save as a knob file, and making changes to the animation degree's for the drop shadow, the changed do NOT get saved to the .knob file...

I have now tried to save them at least 10 different times and in different ways but when that saved knob file is re-loaded the old settings are still there.

Is this just me or is something wrong?

Here is an example:

original setting for drop shadow animation:

from -50 to -45..

OK, then I change that to -50 to 50
Save the file... close and re-open it and the settings still read:
-50 to -45

....some bug in the saving routines????

thanks for your help and for knobman

hello,

Thank your for the report

I have confirmed the problem. It seems an old bug that anyone unaware.
the 'DropShadow - LightDir - To' and 'EdgeHighlight - LightDir - To' cannot load from knob file.
(probably no one try to animate the shadow direction till now

)

I will fix in short time.
please wait a while.

Thank you!

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:07 pm

KnobMan 1.39

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

Just fix the bug:
The 'DropShadow - LightDir - To' and 'EdgeHighlight - LightDir - To' cannot load from knob file.

Thank you.

max · Post by **max** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 1:37 am

Thank you for the fixing... I am very much liking to use Knobman and I am pushing it hard to do things it has some problems doing....

I wish I could talk with you by email about this some more....

If you would like to do that, you can get to me with hopi@comcast.net

I think what you have created is a great and unique program... I would like to see it grow and be even stronger!

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 5:47 am

max wrote:Thank you for the fixing... I am very much liking to use Knobman and I am pushing it hard to do things it has some problems doing....

I wish I could talk with you by email about this some more....

If you would like to do that, you can get to me with hopi@comcast.net

I think what you have created is a great and unique program... I would like to see it grow and be even stronger!

hi,
my email address is available on my web site.
any reports/suggestions would be appreciated, but i think posting here is more recommendable because that may be helpful for other people

hajasal_sk · Post by **hajasal_sk** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:18 pm

Thanks so much for these fixes. This really is an amazing thing you've given to the community. Just donated... hope others do as well.

robrokken · Post by **robrokken** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:16 am

Man, I need updates everyday with knobman, I love it heh.

~Rob.

max · Post by **max** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:57 pm

I just got and installed the msi for ver. 1.39, but the application 'version' still shows 1.38...

Is this a mistake or ???

max · Post by **max** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:23 pm

hello again,

I am wondering about a problem I find when working with knobman. I will try to explain it:

If I want to make a round knob to be exactly 32 by 32 pixels, so it fits into a GUI at exactly that size...
OK so I make a ring or a circle at 100 percent... but this gives 'flat' spots at the top, bottom, left and right sides.

OK to fix this, I have to reduce the percentage to about 90 and also add some difuse [about 27].. that does soften the flat spots but now the knob is not exactly 32 by 32 pixels. You see?

I wonder if knobman could have some way to render out the alpha png files and add some empty padding all around the circle, perhaps about 2 pixels?

That might let users still work with the exact math values inside knobman and then it would create the png file without the images of each frame touching each other???

I realize this is more of a problem when the knob size is smaller [32x32] and not so much of a problem when it is larger [90x90].

Any thoughts or ideas?

max · Post by **max** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:12 am

I don't mean to be a pest, but I am trying to do what might be not very normal knobs and find a few problems or questions I can't explain.

If anyone can try this you will see what I'm talking about:

set up a knob intendend to be a very small vertical slider. Make it 8 px wide by 50 px tall.

OK... now if you want to make the 'handle' for the slider from two short lines, moved a bit left and right off center and have one other non moving line in the middle as the 'slot' for the handle... say you make a line that is 4 wide and 8 long and move it a little off center [x axis]... make it black or red..

you can see the color of it is not fully strong... it's very faded, yes?

but if I make that same object in photoshop, a 4 px by 8 px rectangle, the color of it is normal, ..not at all faded.

this becomes all the more true in Knobman if this very short line lays over something else.. it is very faded instead of being a full, normal strength color.

OK... next, say I try to work around this by making that object in PS first... and using a png of it in Knobman to be the handle. Now the color looks good but now I can't adjust the motion in the y axis enough to make it move from the very bottom to the very top....

I guess that might become possible IF the limits of the y values could go way beyond the 250 they are currently... I think they would have to go into the 1000 or 1200's.

I can upload an example someplace if anyone wants to really see what I'm saying inside knobman.

thanks for any thoughts and help...

KnobMan, the VSTGUI AnimationKnob bitmap generator