working again on ShoeBox, some current improvements Right now I am preparing the SWF grabber for a beta release for which I improved the debugging display for the tweens and frames. Some things are still a bit buggy like flipped movieClips and some hide/show elements but its getting there. I haven't released these things…
I think I'm on the right track, I got it flipping now more often the proper way, but it still flips the wrong way sometimes.... I think Im going to try and do a distance check now. Take 1 vert, check the 2 new verts and see which ones closest and build a face based on that. Although I still will prob get a flipped face…
Added the list view. I tried to make it so u could drag/drop using the buttons on the left in the column, but it wont let me. So right now when u click those, it selects the corresponding thumb in the tools tab. Edit: I just realized this morning how I could get the Object to Merge in when clicking those buttons, so now it…
updated the toolbox I have been working on, its now called "ShoeBox" because co workers thought that would be a funny name and it refers to me. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWMwBCLEcoM[/ame] It has now 3 sprite tools that I use at my work:* A animated GIF or SWF to sprite sheet converter to convert traditional…
You mean too slow to continuosly update ? I'd use it as a pre-process solution only, to generate my graphics from perlin noise and so. I do find it a bit rough around the edges, and the toolkit is a bit sub-Adobe-standard, it has more issues than any other of their products I've ever used. Those controllers are…
Hi everyone, I'm a technical artist about to graduate with a BAS in game art, and I'd like to share something I've bee having a lot of fun with this last week. Based on background art from Samurai Jack. This was a quick project that I did over a few days to supplement a larger project. Trees and grass are billboards. Wind…
No Im not, but I thought about it. I've done it before in other tools. Right now its quite fast, in Max 2012 at least. Max 2010 its not bad though either. I disabled Undo to help with memory/perf, but I could do the disable/enable redraw as well for the hell of it. Thanks :D Oh, and since this screenshot, I added a Random…
A guy at work showed me how to get started with Actionscript.... http://www.laurenscorijn.com/Sirius.swf (Keep refreshing, it's always different!) So i'm making a spaceship game now! Haven't been having this much fun in years, right now I've got some really cool code that builds a procedural bitmap, from tiny fighters to…
Awesome, thanks dude! I will have to try that out this weekend. I managed to setup my test App to know if it needs to add/update a blob now, and does so properly. Next I want to do the Transaction thing, and look at adding the new items/updating, and then threading the creation/updating of the blobs as you said. I need to…
more on ShoeBox development 9 slice or 9-patch detection It searches for clusters and within each looks for repeating slices (looping) and marks them. The idea is to have it export to the Android .9.png format, css3 9-slice and some other framework formats. Right now this fully automated but i'll add some user input…