KnobMan, the VSTGUI AnimationKnob bitmap generator

[de la Mancha]

I really like the new text/number thing, nice one.

Is it possible to create a number knob with decimal places?

eg 0.0 to 5.0 across 101 frames (without typing in 0.0,0.1,0.2 etc)

I tried (0.0:5.0) but it isn't working and I don't see anything in the help about decimal points

[Fred e]

"what's a good font (preferably free) for really small size w/o antialiasing?"

check out these, there are a few free aswell.
http://www.miniml.com/fonts/index.htm

[brok landers]

thanks fred, they're really nice!

[brok landers]

@g200kg:
if i may add some additional feature requests:
- embossing outside, like in photoshop (right now it's applied inside). very nice when the actual primitive's shape shouldn't be touched.
- embossing inside and outside simultanesly, like in photoshop (relief)
- dropshadow size adjustable independently, like in photoshop (if you need to diffuse it very hard, the shadow gets too small often)
- size of the texture adjustable independently
- i miss embossings in the following primitives: circle, wave circle, rectangle, triangle, radiated line

the primitives h-line and v-line are very hard to adjust, they often have different distances and different shapes, depending on the rendersize, zoom and step ... is there a way to prevent this?

i know i'm asking much (hope you don't feel offended), i just thought i have to ask ...

keep up the trumendes work!
thanks again!

[bambooman]

really a great tool, awesome!

i like the extra stuff (presets) people uploaded so far, really nice!
(the faceknob, retro, and glowyellow are my favs)

how about some more classic bread and butter presets?
i come to think of.. some LEDs, glow-buttons/glow-pads/off/on=glow,
classic slider (chrome/black), black rubber drumpads.

[very angry mobster]

I've 2 improvement ideas:
1. Quantisation option for every layer, so that you can render certain layers with a lower frame rate. Use case: If you want to create a knob with a LED-Circle around it and you don't want to see half glowing LEDs.

+1.

[tzec]

KnobMan is fantastic, made it so much easier than rendering with Photoshop, and the results look really nice (well, compared to the horrors I made with PS!). The realtime feedback is very well done, makes it intuitive to edit everything

[g200kg]

thanks for many comments and requests
though i probably cant satisfy all of them, i always appreciate new requests.

now working on:
i found very small size non-TTfont(ex. SmallFonts) is not rendered correctly. some pixels are distorted. i would like to change rendering method for improve.
the link fred mentioned seems great, especially these are TT-font

BTW....
unfortunately, today, my PC has crashed though i doing some improvement on knobman. it takes a little long to next release (though i would like to do at least fixing bugs)

* dont worry, the sourcecode is safe
* from sub note PC.

[brok landers]

thanks for many comments and requests
though i probably cant satisfy all of them, i always appreciate new requests.

don't worry, like i said, if it can be done, cool, if not, knobman's already great!
though i hope you can fix that the antialiasing state is not saved ... though it's rendered perfectly, if you rmrmber to switch it on/off on the respective layers after loading ...

[iGoA]

@de la mancha:
You can do the following as a workaround to generate numbers with a decimal place:

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0.(0:9),1.(0:9),2.(0:9),3.(0:9),4.(0:9), ...

[saulc12]

This really is one of the most useful, flexible and powerful tools I have come across for GUI design, literally saviong hours and hours of work. ~I used to create all my knobs, sliders, etc using a combination of Xara, Truespace and PSP, but now with knobman I have the one stop shop to work in, I almost feel like redoing all my interfaces to a consistant design because the knobs I have been creating with it look so good.

Thanks for this and I promise I will donate as soon as I have a little spare cash - everybody donate

[de la Mancha]

@de la mancha:
You can do the following as a workaround to generate numbers with a decimal place:

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0.(0:9),1.(0:9),2.(0:9),3.(0:9),4.(0:9), ...

thanks, that works great!

[chuck death]

For everyone looking for free small fonts Grymmjack has some very small ones on his web page: http://designermonkey.rekkerd.org/dl.php scroll down to "Original bitmap pixel fonts I've made" and download them.

Or try Proggyfonts: http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download . Great monospaced fonts originally designed for programmers but useful for anyone needing small fonts.

[scuzzphut]

In an Ableton styleeeee


http://www.scuzzphut.com/scuzzphut-abletonish.knob right-click, save-as

[M1]

xport is all screwed up for me in 1.06... all it'll do is .bmp, on every filetype. man i hope i'm not the only one who this is happening to... also, .png import is a bit shakey.

by the way your software f-ing rocks! it's great for those photoshop style knobs in about 1/10th of the time! is there any way you could make it so that ppl could make their own primitives? is it just a bump-map/alpha mask type of deal? if so that would be awesome, i bet people would come up with alot of helpful prims.

oh yeah, i'll send some $ as soon as i get some $, broke right now but when i'm not i'd be glad to support this.