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Reply #2 Posted on: August 26, 2009, 05:08:30 pm |
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GIMP is a lot to take in. But once you realize that there IS a one-pixel pencil tool, it starts to work its way into your heart. <3
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Reply #5 Posted on: August 28, 2009, 01:01:37 pm |
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We're working on our own image editor, written in Java Half the speed, twice the features, eh? I can't wait until GCJ is sufficiently advanced to compile LateralGM to native code. (Which doesn't look like it's happening any year now)
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Reply #6 Posted on: August 29, 2009, 12:02:15 am |
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Our image editor utilizes a special buffering technique that GM's does not use, so our speed should be about equal if not faster than GM. As for features, we're trying to keep it simple - unlike the Gimp, where you have to go through 8 menus just to create a canvas and draw a pixel on it. Something of a hybrid between GM's and MS Paint.
I did mention before that LGM "defaults" to Gimp. You can easily modify the preferences file to change it to use another image editor, or even create a plugin to override the image editor and use your own (such as a native code one). You don't need to compile LGM ot native code in order to utilize a native code image editor.
In fact, with plugins, you can override any/all of LGM's resource editors and replace them with something else, such as native code ones. At one point we tried to negotiate with someone who was writing a native code room editor, but they never got back to us. In the meantime, Quadduc rewrote the rendering code for the room editor to make it more modular (and thus allow more advanced buffering techniques), which should boost performance. He recently finished that code and we merged it into the latest SVN revisions, and it will be in the 1.6 release.
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Reply #8 Posted on: September 01, 2009, 08:24:29 pm |
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No, but what ism was getting at is that Photoshop and GIMP are ridiculously overcomplicated. In paint, you select and drag. In GIMP, you select, take half an hour figuring out control-alt lets you drag. Basically, there shouldn't be a manual for a built-in image editor.
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Reply #10 Posted on: September 01, 2009, 08:27:03 pm |
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No, that moves the layer behind your selection. Which caused me to burst a blood vessel once.
Amid my hate for the comprehensive manual, I neglected to mention the 20 second load time.
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Reply #11 Posted on: September 01, 2009, 08:32:49 pm |
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No, that moves the layer behind your selection. Which caused me to burst a blood vessel once.
Amid my hate for the comprehensive manual, I neglected to mention the 20 second load time.
Cut, paste, and then move Although, I do use MSPaint for spriting 'n such. Too bad Win7 paint screwed it, except the aliased brushes are pretty.
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