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Smoothly rotating to another angle on pano nodes

2009-12-09T22:25:33Z

Hi all,

I've been working on a library for cubic panorama rotation, and have run into a problem.

When I run this code, Pipmak will smoothly rotate to either 90, 90, or 90, -90(disregarding panorama limits), and slowly spins.

I can tell there's something wrong with this code, but I don't know what it is exactly, or how to fix it. Can anyone suggest a possible solution? Thanks very much, if anyone can.

CODE**********************************************

cubic { "front.jpg", "right.jpg", "back.jpg", "left.jpg", "top.jpg", "bottom.jpg" }

local tarAZ, tarEL = 45, 45
local viewAZ, viewEL = pipmak.getviewdirection()
local speedAZ, speedEL

      if viewAZ > tarAZ then
        speedAZ = viewAZ / tarAZ
      elseif viewAZ < tarAZ then
        speedAZ = tarAZ / viewAZ
      end

      if viewEL > tarEL then
        speedEL = viewEL / tarEL
      elseif viewEL < tarEL then
        speedEL = tarEL / viewEL
      end

hotspotmap "hotspotmap.png"

hotspot {
onmousedown = function()
pipmak.schedule(
    0.02,
function()
      viewAZ, viewEL = pipmak.getviewdirection()
      if viewAZ == tarAZ and viewEL == tarEL then
      viewAZ, viewEL = tarAZ, tarEL
      else
      pipmak.setviewdirection( viewAZ + 0.8, viewEL * speedEL + 0.8 )
      end
      return 0.02
   end
)
end
}

END CODE *************************************

Thanks again,

James

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Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-12-03T08:18:44Z

>Thanks James for adding the instructions. I reworded them a bit and
>fixed the misspelled e-mail address.
Oops! Thanks, Christian.

-James CW
--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Christian Walther <cwalther@...> wrote:

From: Christian Walther <cwalther@...>
Subject: Re: Accessing the wiki?
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7:19 AM

jcowen wrote:
> Could you also add "jcowen" to the list?

Andrea Viarengo wrote:
> Can you add me too to the wiki editor group?

Done.

Thanks James for adding the instructions. I reworded them a bit and
fixed the misspelled e-mail address. (I am actually not sure if viewing
pages while logged in is sufficient to get you on the user list, or if
you need to try to edit a page - if anyone of you knows or can try it
out, please edit.)

-Christian

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Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-12-03T04:26:14Z

jcowen wrote:
> Could you also add "jcowen" to the list?

Andrea Viarengo wrote:
> Can you add me too to the wiki editor group?

Done.

Thanks James for adding the instructions. I reworded them a bit and
fixed the misspelled e-mail address. (I am actually not sure if viewing
pages while logged in is sufficient to get you on the user list, or if
you need to try to edit a page - if anyone of you knows or can try it
out, please edit.)

-Christian

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Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-12-03T04:19:13Z

Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-12-03T00:09:57Z

Hi Chriss,

Can you add me too to the wiki editor group?
My Username is "Aviare".
Thank you!

Andrea

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Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-12-02T17:00:51Z

Hi JC,

Any chance you could add your sound.lua to the wiki once you have permission, if you get a chance?

Thanks,

James CW

--- On Wed, 12/2/09, jcowen <jcowen@...> wrote:

From: jcowen <jcowen@...>
Subject: Re: Accessing the wiki?
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 7:32 PM

Hi Christian,

As mentioned here
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/560/focus=625>, I
apparently need to give everyone write permission individually.

I've been meaning to add in some of the sound topics my students need as
well. Could you also add "jcowen" to the list?

Just to chime in on the library structure... I've been using a sound.lua to
package things like sound fades etc... I've loved the dofile inclusion.

Thank you,

JC
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Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-12-02T16:32:40Z

Hi Christian,

As mentioned here
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/560/focus=625>, I
apparently need to give everyone write permission individually.

I've been meaning to add in some of the sound topics my students need as well. Could you also add "jcowen" to the list?

Just to chime in on the library structure... I've been using a sound.lua to package things like sound fades etc... I've loved the dofile inclusion.

Thank you,

JC

Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-12-02T10:59:10Z

> I think that should be a good idea add a paragraph to main wiki page which
.>explain how to contribute to the wiki (for example, indicating the need to
>ask to Christian to add the username to the editor list...)
Yes, that is a good idea. I'll do that.

>James, have you used the library structure which I have proposed?
>Do you think that this structure be sufficiently versatile?
>Surely any improvement is welcome!!
Yes, I have, and it has considerable use. I'm using color.lua to write curvemotion.lua, details of which, and a few other new ones, can be found on the library page, on the Wiki.

-James CW
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From: Andrea Viarengo <andrea.viarengo@...>
Subject: Re: Accessing the wiki?
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 11:56 AM

I think that should be a good idea add a paragraph to main wiki page which
explain how to contribute to the wiki (for example, indicating the need to
ask to Christian to add the username to the editor list...)

James, have you used the library structure which I have proposed?
Do you think that this structure be sufficiently versatile?
Surely any improvement is welcome!!

Probably this structure should be changed when Chriss will introduce the
proposed management modules..

I would add a newest version of my autocubic.lua which have a lot of new
features, but I have no time to do that!!!

Bye!!

Andrea

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Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-12-02T08:56:43Z

I think that should be a good idea add a paragraph to main wiki page which
explain how to contribute to the wiki (for example, indicating the need to
ask to Christian to add the username to the editor list...)

James, have you used the library structure which I have proposed?
Do you think that this structure be sufficiently versatile?
Surely any improvement is welcome!!

Probably this structure should be changed when Chriss will introduce the
proposed management modules..

I would add a newest version of my autocubic.lua which have a lot of new
features, but I have no time to do that!!!

Bye!!

Andrea

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Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-11-30T11:28:33Z

Ah, thanks Christian. Yes, my SourcForge username is jfcwilson.

And I'll vote. This restriction seems rather pesky to me.

I'll be adding a few libraries fairly soon, and I'll do some tidying up(spell checking, etc.)

Thanks again,

James CW

--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Christian Walther <cwalther@...> wrote:

From: Christian Walther <cwalther@...>
Subject: Re: Accessing the wiki?
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 1:27 PM

James Wilson wrote:
> How can I access(edit) the wiki? Even when I'm logged in to sourceorge,
> it tells me I need to be an admin or something...

As mentioned here
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/560/focus=625>, I
apparently need to give everyone write permission individually. I assume
your SourceForge user name is "jfcwilson"? I have just added that user
to the editor group. Let me know if you still have trouble editing.

I didn't realize this at the time I evaluated the wiki, and I'm not
happy about it because it somewhat defeats the purpose of a wiki. If you
would like SourceForge to change it, please vote here:
<http://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorrent/sourceforge/ideatorrent/idea/172/>

-Christian

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Re: Accessing the wiki?

2009-11-30T10:27:43Z

James Wilson wrote:
> How can I access(edit) the wiki? Even when I'm logged in to sourceforge,
> it tells me I need to be an admin or something...

As mentioned here
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/560/focus=625>, I
apparently need to give everyone write permission individually. I assume
your SourceForge user name is "jfcwilson"? I have just added that user
to the editor group. Let me know if you still have trouble editing.

I didn't realize this at the time I evaluated the wiki, and I'm not
happy about it because it somewhat defeats the purpose of a wiki. If you
would like SourceForge to change it, please vote here:
<http://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorrent/sourceforge/ideatorrent/idea/172/>

-Christian

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Accessing the wiki?

2009-11-30T08:25:39Z

Hi all,

How can I access(edit) the wiki? Even when I'm logged in to sourceforge, it tells me I need to be an admin or something...

Thanks,

James CW

Re: Screen capture?

2009-11-05T04:14:56Z

James Wilson wrote:
> The reason I wanted to do this was to create a graphical save game system.

For what it's worth, enabling this has been on my mind as a vague idea -
but it hasn't even made it onto the official to-do list yet. See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/289/focus=290

-Christian

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Re: Screen capture?

2009-11-04T11:21:42Z

I see. Thanks. The reason I wanted to do this was to create a graphical save game system.

So I don't think that using something like the print screen key would work, as it has to be automated.

Thanks,

James

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From: Aidan Gauland <wgsilkie@...>
Subject: Re: Screen capture?
To: "Content creation for the Pipmak Game Engine" <pipmak-users@...>
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:36 AM

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James Wilson wrote:
> Is it possible to capture the screen and save it to a file?

Simply, no.

> I know it isn't built into pipmak, but is there a Lua function for it?

I'm not sure what you're asking here. All Lua functions provided by Pipmak
are interfaces (for lack of a better word) to a function built into Pipmak.

If you mean a Lua function that is part of the standard Lua library, then I'm
sorry to be the one to tell you that Lua is more primitive than you seem to
realise. ;)

Oh, and this will will probably never be implemented in Pipmak, because it is
so simple to just take a screen shot of the window on just about any system.

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Re: Screen capture?

2009-11-04T01:36:05Z

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James Wilson wrote:
> Is it possible to capture the screen and save it to a file?

Simply, no.

> I know it isn't built into pipmak, but is there a Lua function for it?

I'm not sure what you're asking here. All Lua functions provided by Pipmak
are interfaces (for lack of a better word) to a function built into Pipmak.

If you mean a Lua function that is part of the standard Lua library, then I'm
sorry to be the one to tell you that Lua is more primitive than you seem to
realise. ;)

Oh, and this will will probably never be implemented in Pipmak, because it is
so simple to just take a screen shot of the window on just about any system.

--Aidan
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Screen capture?

2009-11-04T00:01:19Z

Hi all,

Is it possible to capture the screen and save it to a file? I know it isn't built into pipmak, but is there a Lua function for it?

Thanks,

James

Re: Need help with hotspot maps

2009-11-03T13:47:44Z

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James Wilson wrote:
> I think Aidan forgot to add that you can only find the palette in the source code download, not the binaries.

Oh, sorry. I only use the source from Subversion repository, and I didn't
check to see if that's included with the binary releases. :P

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Re: Need help with hotspot maps

2009-11-03T12:12:45Z

I think Aiden forgot to add that you can only find the palette in the source code download, not the bineries. Also, note that you must place the hotspot in node.lua according to the location on the indexed hotspot file. Like so:

If you have one hotspot that is the first(or ordered first, it doesn't actually matter what color it is, as long as it comes before the others in the palette) color, you include the following standard hotspot line in node.lua:

hotspot { target = 2, effect = { pipmak.rotate, pipmak.left, 10, state.slideduration }, cursor = pipmak.hand_right }

Make sure that it is the FIRST hotspot definition in the node.lua file.

Then go from there.

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Subject: Re: Need help with hotspot maps
To: "Content creation for the Pipmak Game Engine" <pipmak-users@...>
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 2:07 PM

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syxified wrote:

> I have never been able to successfully get a hotspot map to work in pipmak,
> even if I am pretty much word for word copying the syntax from the demo
> where they seem to work perfectly. I've simplified a few down to just a
> slide and some spots that would print out a msg if clicked, but nothing
> doing. I have never been able to find that file with the pallette for the
> indexed colors, which there is a good chance is the root of the issue. I'm
> not sure exactly how that indexing is supposed to work - are there
> pre-established colors that are set to indexes 0,1,2, etc? Or does that
> depend on the image file and how it was set up when saved? Any advice
> towards making a successful hotspot map would be greatly appreciated.

There are no pre-established colors that are used, but the colors used by the
image file itself. An image with indexed colors is one that uses its own set
color palette of up to 256 colors.

Pipmak comes with a color palette that is well suited to drawing hotspot maps,
because of the contrast between the colors. The file is "hotspot-palette.gif"
in the folder "extras" (that comes with Pipmak). How to import this into your
bitmap-image editor depends on what you are using.

So, in short...
* Your hotspot map has to be an indexed image (not RGB).
* The first color on the palette maps to the first hotspot, the second color
to the second hotspot, etc.
* /Anywhere/ color 0 appears on the image will be hotspot 0, so hotspots do
not have to be all one (visual) piece.

Hope this helps,
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Re: Need help with hotspot maps

2009-11-03T11:07:12Z

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syxified wrote:

> I have never been able to successfully get a hotspot map to work in pipmak,
> even if I am pretty much word for word copying the syntax from the demo
> where they seem to work perfectly. I've simplified a few down to just a
> slide and some spots that would print out a msg if clicked, but nothing
> doing. I have never been able to find that file with the pallette for the
> indexed colors, which there is a good chance is the root of the issue. I'm
> not sure exactly how that indexing is supposed to work - are there
> pre-established colors that are set to indexes 0,1,2, etc? Or does that
> depend on the image file and how it was set up when saved? Any advice
> towards making a successful hotspot map would be greatly appreciated.

There are no pre-established colors that are used, but the colors used by the
image file itself. An image with indexed colors is one that uses its own set
color palette of up to 256 colors.

Pipmak comes with a color palette that is well suited to drawing hotspot maps,
because of the contrast between the colors. The file is "hotspot-palette.gif"
in the folder "extras" (that comes with Pipmak). How to import this into your
bitmap-image editor depends on what you are using.

So, in short...
* Your hotspot map has to be an indexed image (not RGB).
* The first color on the palette maps to the first hotspot, the second color
to the second hotspot, etc.
* /Anywhere/ color 0 appears on the image will be hotspot 0, so hotspots do
not have to be all one (visual) piece.

Hope this helps,
Aidan
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Need help with hotspot maps

2009-11-03T08:48:44Z

I have never been able to successfully get a hotspot map to work in pipmak, even if I am pretty much word for word copying the syntax from the demo where they seem to work perfectly. I've simplified a few down to just a slide and some spots that would print out a msg if clicked, but nothing doing. I have never been able to find that file with the pallette for the indexed colors, which there is a good chance is the root of the issue. I'm not sure exactly how that indexing is supposed to work - are there pre-established colors that are set to indexes 0,1,2, etc? Or does that depend on the image file and how it was set up when saved? Any advice towards making a successful hotspot map would be greatly appreciated.

Matt

Cannot get hotspot maps to work for me

2009-11-03T08:47:59Z

Cannot get hotspot maps to work for me

2009-11-03T08:47:36Z

Re: drawimage not working?

2009-11-01T12:59:20Z

James Wilson wrote:
> I know. Sorry, but what I meant was how does one refer to that image
> object in code? The manual doesn't seem to make that clear.

I'm not sure I understand your question. The pipmak.newimage function
returns an image object that you can treat that like any other Lua value
- e.g. assign it to a variable, call methods on it, etc. - and use it
with any Pipmak functionality that accepts images.

For example,

patch { x = 30, y = 80, image = pipmak.newimage(30, 20):color(1, 0,
0):fill() }

or

local myimage = pipmak.newimage(30, 20)
myimage:color(1, 0, 0)
myimage:fill()
mypatch:setimage(myimage)

Does that answer the question?

-Christian

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Re: drawimage not working?

2009-11-01T12:00:11Z

I know. Sorry, but what I meant was how does one refer to that image object in code? The manual doesn't seem to make that clear.

--- On Sun, 11/1/09, Christian Walther <cwalther@...> wrote:

From: Christian Walther <cwalther@...>
Subject: Re: drawimage not working?
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 4:54 AM

James Wilson wrote:
> I see. How does one reference an image object again, to be used in this
> fashion?

pipmak.newimage() - see section 3.12 "Image Manipulation" in the manual.

-Christian

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Re: drawimage not working?

2009-11-01T01:54:18Z

James Wilson wrote:
> I see. How does one reference an image object again, to be used in this
> fashion?

pipmak.newimage() - see section 3.12 "Image Manipulation" in the manual.

-Christian

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Re: drawimage not working?

2009-10-31T19:01:11Z

I see. How does one reference an image object again, to be used in this fashion?

--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Christian Walther <cwalther@...> wrote:

From: Christian Walther <cwalther@...>
Subject: Re: drawimage not working?
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 12:02 PM

James Wilson wrote:
> While running some tests concerning a flashlight effect, I came across this:
> When I try the code below, pipmak tells me that "drawimage" is not a
> valid method.

You're trying to call the "drawimage" method of a patch, but patches
don't have such a method. Images have one.

-Christian

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Re: Flashlight effect

2009-10-31T18:59:03Z

Hi Christian,

Yeah, I thought of that just a couple days ago, and I finished it. With that technique, one can use the effect on both panoramic and slide nodes. It's simple code, but just to enchance simplicity further, I think I'll try my hand at writing a function for it, to be placed in a lua file and attached to the project using dofile. I'm also going to try something similar with panoramic smooth rotation, which has never been implmented, and so will be rather more complex.

Thanks,

James
--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Christian Walther <cwalther@...> wrote:

From: Christian Walther <cwalther@...>
Subject: Re: Flashlight effect
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 12:00 PM

James Wilson wrote:

> I've been experimenting with Pipmak a bit, and I was wondering, might it
> be possible to write a "flashlight effect" function?
> Here's how I'm thinking it'd work(and this is how it usually does in
> games, I've checked)
>
> Cubic node background has images set that show a lit scene, with a weak
> light with little falloff.
>
> Patches overlaid each of the faces have the same scene, rendered
> with nearly no light.
>
> One patch(a PNG) with a flashlight "ring" on it. The ring area is
> transparent, no coloration.
> This patch is set to follow the cursor, and to "cut" through the
> patches(according to the transparency of the flashlight patch) to the
> node background.

The way you describe, with totally independent lit and unlit scenes, is
currently not possible in Pipmak. I'd have to think about how it could
be implemented. However, if the unlit scene is simply a darkened version
of the lit one, this can easily be achieved in the same way as the
telescope in the demo project works.

-Christian

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Re: drawimage not working?

2009-10-31T09:02:14Z

James Wilson wrote:
> While running some tests concerning a flashlight effect, I came across this:
> When I try the code below, pipmak tells me that "drawimage" is not a
> valid method.

You're trying to call the "drawimage" method of a patch, but patches
don't have such a method. Images have one.

-Christian

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Re: Flashlight effect

2009-10-31T09:00:19Z

James Wilson wrote:

> I've been experimenting with Pipmak a bit, and I was wondering, might it
> be possible to write a "flashlight effect" function?
> Here's how I'm thinking it'd work(and this is how it usually does in
> games, I've checked)
>
> Cubic node background has images set that show a lit scene, with a weak
> light with little falloff.
>
> Patches overlaid each of the faces have the same scene, rendered
> with nearly no light.
>
> One patch(a PNG) with a flashlight "ring" on it. The ring area is
> transparent, no coloration.
> This patch is set to follow the cursor, and to "cut" through the
> patches(according to the transparency of the flashlight patch) to the
> node background.

The way you describe, with totally independent lit and unlit scenes, is
currently not possible in Pipmak. I'd have to think about how it could
be implemented. However, if the unlit scene is simply a darkened version
of the lit one, this can easily be achieved in the same way as the
telescope in the demo project works.

-Christian

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drawimage not working?

2009-10-29T00:33:27Z

Hi all,

While running some tests concerning a flashlight effect, I came across this:

When I try the code below, pipmak tells me that "drawimage" is not a valid method.

Anyone know what I(or Pipmak) am doing wrong?

Thanks a lot,

James

CODE/

slide "light.jpg"

local darkLayer = patch { x = 0, y = 0, image = "dark.png" }
local flashlightmask = patch { x = 0, y = 0, image = "flashlightmask.png", visible=false }

hotspotmap "hotspotmap.png"

hotspot {
onmousedown = function()
darkLayer:drawimage (300, 200, flashlightmask)
end
}

CODE\

Re: Flashlight effect

2009-10-28T10:24:03Z

Something using this, perhaps:

image:drawimage(x, y, sourceimage [, sx, sy, w, h])

And some other info from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing

--- On Mon, 10/26/09, James Wilson <jfcwilson@...> wrote:

From: James Wilson <jfcwilson@...>
Subject: Flashlight effect
To: "Pipmak User Mailing List" <pipmak-users@...>
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 5:58 PM

Hi all,

I've been experimenting with Pipmak a bit, and I was wondering, might it be possible to write a "flashlight effect" function?

Here's how I'm thinking it'd work(and this is how it usually does in games, I've checked)

Cubic node background has images set that show a lit scene, with a weak light with little falloff.

Patches overlaid each of the faces have the same scene, rendered with nearly no light.

One patch(a PNG) with a flashlight "ring" on it. The ring area is transparent, no coloration.

This patch is set to follow the cursor, and to "cut" through the patches(according to the transparency of the flashlight patch) to the node background.

So, thoughts?

Thanks,

James CW

Flashlight effect

2009-10-26T14:58:23Z

Hi all,

I've been experimenting with Pipmak a bit, and I was wondering, might it be possible to write a "flashlight effect" function?

Here's how I'm thinking it'd work(and this is how it usually does in games, I've checked)

Cubic node background has images set that show a lit scene, with a weak light with little falloff.

Patches overlaid each of the faces have the same scene, rendered with nearly no light.

One patch(a PNG) with a flashlight "ring" on it. The ring area is transparent, no coloration.

This patch is set to follow the cursor, and to "cut" through the patches(according to the transparency of the flashlight patch) to the node background.

So, thoughts?

Thanks,

James CW

Re: Brush and eyedropper

2009-10-24T11:07:54Z

Christian Walther wrote:

> They are part of the half-implemented hotspot painting feature.
> Searching for "brush" on this mailing list should get you some
> instructions on how to try it, here's a bit copied from <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/119/focus=124
> >:
>
>> On a panorama that already has some hotspots, show them (C key) and
>> call pipmak_internal.tool(2) to bring up the brush tool. Press the
>> option/alt key or call pipmak_internal.tool(3) to select the
>> eyedropper tool to pick up another color (hotspot number). Pan using
>> the right mouse button (or using shift to switch to direct mode).
>> pipmak_internal.tool(0) brings you back to the hand tool. Currently,
>> your paintings aren't saved, you can't change the brush size
>> (without recompiling), and it only works on panoramas.

OK, thanks. I guessed it was something like that.

--Aidan

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Re: Brush and eyedropper

2009-10-24T03:09:13Z

Aidan Gauland wrote:
> There seems to be code for "brush" and "eyedropper" tools in
> Pipmak's source,
> but they do not seem to either be documented anywhere or ever appear
> in Pipmak
> when it's running. Does anyone know about this?

They are part of the half-implemented hotspot painting feature.
Searching for "brush" on this mailing list should get you some
instructions on how to try it, here's a bit copied from <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/119/focus=124
>:

> On a panorama that already has some hotspots, show them (C key) and
> call pipmak_internal.tool(2) to bring up the brush tool. Press the
> option/alt key or call pipmak_internal.tool(3) to select the
> eyedropper tool to pick up another color (hotspot number). Pan using
> the right mouse button (or using shift to switch to direct mode).
> pipmak_internal.tool(0) brings you back to the hand tool. Currently,
> your paintings aren't saved, you can't change the brush size
> (without recompiling), and it only works on panoramas.

-Christian

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Brush and eyedropper

2009-10-24T02:08:17Z

There seems to be code for "brush" and "eyedropper" tools in Pipmak's source,
but they do not seem to either be documented anywhere or ever appear in Pipmak
when it's running. Does anyone know about this?

Thanks,
Aidan

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