hello there,
I started yesterday afternoon with a little project. A paint-programm in 3dgs.



the features till now are:

• paint with smooth brush
  
• set paint-transparence
  
• set brushsize
  
• set paint-color
  
• preview window with paintcolor/alpha
  
• brush painting is distance based
  
• by painting the cursor shows brush-size by a cycle
  
• create a new image
  
• save image
  
• works in a great speed (no lags)
  

There are a lot of features planned for it(as open images,zoom,a color picker,customizable brushes,filters,undo/redo funktion, maybe a funktion alá instantDraw), but I don't know how long i am interested in that project so we'll see what is really implemented.

And as i wrote in the title I also have a question to all of you.
To xmas i got a great..great drawpad and it also works pretty good with my program. But the point is that it is touch sensitive and it can detect if you use the pen or the "rubber" from it. Is there
a) a way to get this values in gamestudio(a bit unlikely...) or
b) someone who would be so kind and write a small plugin 4 me?

it's a wacom setting, every tablet has a different set of keys, for example i cant use a intuos pan on a graphire tablet, so a simple DLL, to make it compatible with everything will need to contain EVERY tablet's instructions, thus making it kind of complex...

anyway, great job on the program, might i ask, what's the resolution your drawing to, and how does the drawing handle? i mean, what functions are used to do this ?

regards,

every resolution you want, but standart i just create a bmap in screensize. for painting i use all in all just the pixel_ functions.
I would like to share this programms exe but something is wrong with my publishing. If i start the published exe it give me an D3D error

whether here i found a faq to wacom tablets...i'll see what i can do with it:
http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/ibmpc/wacomwindevfaq.html

edit: ok, i see there is something called wintab and there is also sdk to download..

Looks pretty nice, can't wait to play around with the colours
Btw, I guess your intention is to keep this quite simple like MSPaint which include most of the features you summed or are you trying to implant some options like normalmaps, heightmaps, layers and so on ?? Would be nice though
About your question, I'm afraid I can't help you out on that one.

Cheers

Frazzle

Really AWESOME WORK!!
It looks awesome, this yould be one of the best tools in Gamestudio.
Can´t wait ... want to see more..

Cheers

Toni

@frazzle
you can play around with it as soon I can publish it (without mysterious errors).
I think layers are senseful for such a tool and not a big deal 2 do. Ofc I try to keep it simple, but I am frightened that it won't...
Because of the normalmap and hightmap: I will offer a folder where you can add your filter(-file), a simple function that is called for every pixel.

@Posion
STRIKE! (ofc you will see more)

I got it to make a plugin for gs( the square function^^) and now I'm looking through the examples 2 find out how to use wintab (but it looks quiet simple...)

edit: it is _not_ simple...and the manual is horrible in my oppinion

great tool, although i doubt you could make a paint program better than paint.net very interesting though

Interesting stuff, i wanted to create something similar long ago Keep it up!

@mpdeveloper_B
There is no intention 2 b better then something. only because it's in a window it got some deficits already. Whatever I am doing that just4fun.

And here is the interface for the color-picker:

(I will delete the r/g/b sliders from the toolbox then)

Finally! I got the new beta...and now the publishing works property.
So as announced, here is a demo.

Download

Keys:

mouse_left: Paint
mouse_wheel: change brushsize
N: New Image
S: Save Image

PS: I worked already on some other functions but they are not the way i would like to show you.

edit: I am so sorry, I swear that the save function worked before...with the new beta it writes confusing stripes!