KVR Audio

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:38 am

SkinMan 0.999j is released

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

* BugFix: Not reflect to render when the primitive Size is changed by PropWindow value.
* BugFix: Primitive position may move unintendedly by Group/Ungroup
* Added 'Copy Primitive coodinate to clipboard' button

jobromedia · Post by **jobromedia** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:32 pm

This is an idea I got recently.

1. What would it take for Skinman / knobman to support different ways to break light? Put a pencil in a glass, and the light is broken differently in or outside of the glass.

2. It would also be pretty darn neat if one could apply different visual effects as well. Take a look at Win7's start menu when running Aero. As you can see it blurs out the underlying window. Such effects would prolly take a bit of work to be done, but I suppose that you could take a look at GIMP's source code since it has many such effects.

3. It would be pretty useful if one could, as in Corel Draw, render a random texture from the parameters you put in. You got for instance Perlin noise that you can define how it should look and so forth.

I know these are quite tight ideas, and I fully understand if you decline them due to their hardness to implement.

jobromedia · Post by **jobromedia** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:24 pm

bumping this topic.

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:04 am

hi jobro,
though it is not so easy to implement, might be interesting.
let me ponder

CUNKA · Post by **CUNKA** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:22 pm

I look forward to you calling it "SkinMan 1.00".

Its programs like this that allow us with no drawing ability to create something nice.

satYatunes · Post by **satYatunes** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:18 pm

While I was working on my Poise skin in SkinMan, I encountered the following bugs:

1. If I move a hidden primitive and make it visible it crashes the app.

2. Color window is positioned at the same place even if I rearrange it.

3. If I have not saved the skin that I am working on and I click on open, it shows an option "Not saved. ok?". If I click OK then it doesn't save and let me open a new file. If I click "cancel" it still does not save and let me open a new file. My understanding was if I click "cancel" it would stay on the skin that I am working on and let me save so that I don't lose it.

4. This is no big deal, just an observation on the behavior:
If I click open and then select "My Computer" it does not show the drives, etc. See screenshot below:

In case of Knobman, it behaves as it should:

Spec: Windows XP 32bit SP3, i5, 3GB RAM. If you need anything else please let me know.

Thanks for making such excellent tools.

Pipelineaudio · Post by **Pipelineaudio** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:17 pm

Can someone tell me how to use the curve and shapes tools? Or where I could learn about how?

WOK · Post by **WOK** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:31 pm

Pipelineaudio wrote:Can someone tell me how to use the curve and shapes tools? Or where I could learn about how?

I think there are instructions on the authors website.
By clicking ore click&drag yout set points/curves. Clicking the first point again closes the curve. Later editing with right-click. Best is to switch off the grid first or start with big shapes.

Pipelineaudio · Post by **Pipelineaudio** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:47 am

I think there is a bug or something with 1 px wide lines. In this instance, if I make the line 164 long its fine but 165 or 163 and it has this extra dot on it

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:39 pm

hello

satYatunes wrote: 1. If I move a hidden primitive and make it visible it crashes the app.

2. Color window is positioned at the same place even if I rearrange it.

3. If I have not saved the skin that I am working on and I click on open, it shows an option "Not saved. ok?". If I click OK then it doesn't save and let me open a new file. If I click "cancel" it still does not save and let me open a new file. My understanding was if I click "cancel" it would stay on the skin that I am working on and let me save so that I don't lose it.

4. This is no big deal, just an observation on the behavior:
If I click open and then select "My Computer" it does not show the drives, etc.

sorry I'm late.

1... I'm not sure about this. is there any other condition to rise?
2&3... ok, i found the cause. these will be fixed.
4... hmm, reproduced. still investigating.

Pipelineaudio wrote: I think there is a bug or something with 1 px wide lines. In this instance, if I make the line 164 long its fine but 165 or 163 and it has this extra dot on it

i see. but this is very limited case of antialias is off/ radiated lines/ primitive width equal 1px. this seems be due to the coordinate calculation precision.

i would like to fix if possible, but i recommend to use 'Rect' or 'Curve' instead of 'Lines' if you just need the 1px vertical line.

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:33 pm

updated to 0.999k
* BugFix: Cannot cancel opening another file by 'Are you sure?' dialog.
* BugFix: 'Color Window' position is not saved in some cases.
* BugFix: Drives are not displayed in FileOpen-MyComputer dialogs (WinXP).

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

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:17 am

DAMN IT! $^*()$#%&*!!! First project...crash

Just a learning run any way but I did like it

Any backup system built in?? Thanks for the great program.

I did this
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=328045

in Xara Webdesinger.. not a great image but you get the idea. I do like the way it has gone so far but it could be 100000% better translated to skinman ?

Pipelineaudio · Post by **Pipelineaudio** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:03 am

g200kg wrote:hello

i see. but this is very limited case of antialias is off/ radiated lines/ primitive width equal 1px. this seems be due to the coordinate calculation precision.

i would like to fix if possible, but i recommend to use 'Rect' or 'Curve' instead of 'Lines' if you just need the 1px vertical line.

OK, thanks! I'll use rectangle, so far that seems to work perfect!

tonhelm · Post by **tonhelm** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:58 pm

Just wanna say thank you for this great tool without I wouldn't have been able to
create and release my first plugin (and knobman of course). And while talking of japan: toddle is my favorite band right now. I keep listening to their new record "the shimmer" daily since it's out.

jobromedia · Post by **jobromedia** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:06 am

A few functions more that I wouldn't mind see added.

1. Exporting BMP would be sweet if you also could export 8 bit and 2 bit bmp's too.

2. Speaking about exports why not add a preview how the exported image will look like?

3. Having a lot of fonts makes it rather hard to find the ones that I want to use. So why not do it as in Word: Add the used fonts into a sub menu "Favorites" at the top of the font menu.

And finally a question: What does the "Operation" menu do?

SKINMAN, the new strike by g200kg (early early alpha)