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Offline SamuraiCrow

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Re: HollyPaint
« on: February 07, 2013, 07:28:06 PM »
How far do you plan to take this program?  After a recent announcement about a Hollywood plugin, I'm starting to see the usefulness of Hollywood.  Adding to that, I was starting a paint program on PortablE that could be used for alpha-blended sprite-sheets for a game.  If HollyPaint can do it it would save me a lot of work!
 

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Re: HollyPaint
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2013, 08:16:46 AM »
Quote from: Mazze;725734
To avoid a misunderstanding: do you mean drawing with pens which have an alpha component or that the sprite sheet should have transparent zones?


I want full 32-bit color with alpha blending so that the sprites can overlay translucently over other images with partial visibility through the blended colors.  I know that PortablE doesn't support that function yet but the author has been helpful with feature requests and bug reports in the past.

Perhaps the new animation plugin I linked in my post will make undo-redo a possibility as well. All that would be needed would be the ability to add a frame to the start of an animation, remove multiple frames from the start of the animation (for the case of editing after an undo) and the ability to render frames asynchronously frontwards and backwards.  Since the plugin can save animations, I would assume it can also be used to edit animations.

I'm beginning to wish I hadn't stopped upgrading Hollywood after the first version.  Maybe I could help with the project if I'd kept up with the latest and greatest versions.