Fourth beta

Looki, I have to say that this is amazing! Great work.

I second that. Your work is purely amazing here

Playing around with it at the moment. One thing that jumps into my eyes is that the random (256) pixel colour in your example seems to result in a colour between red 0 and red 255. And i don`t really understand why. Shouldn`t a random colour out of 16 million colours look a bit different than just red?

Which leads me to a first idea. Some more explanations at the top of the dialogues would be neat. Stuff like at the top of the color dialogue, where a info is at the top if hex or rgb or whatever value is needed here

Second idea is of course, don`t forget to add closer explanations in the final examples

A small quirk. There is the Select Image condition. As it is now it looks a bit like a action that is accidentally placed into the conditions. Do it, select Image 0. Sounds like an action to me

As a suggestion, what about calling it Image selected?

I think i found another quirk. When pasting an image from clipboard the colour black 0/0/0 becomes transparent. There seems to be no way to prevent that. Adding a "set transparent colour to" before pasting has no effect. Adding the "set transparent colour to" after the pasting changes the transparent colour, but leaves the old transparent areas transparent.

What i would love to see is a option here when pasting from clipboard: As Opaque, Transparent colour, Alphachanneled.

Thanks Looki

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random(256) returns a number between 0 and 255.
Due to the way colors are stored in MMF, GetRGB(x,0,0) is equal to x wink

I see. And how do we randomize all colours then? Random(256), Random(256), Random(256) gives no error, but still results in red

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The select image condition works fine laugh

No, that`s not the point. It works indeed fine. It`s the spelling. Condition = if, action = then

If Select image is 0
Or
On Select image 0

would make it a bit clearer and equal the other conditions

I wish we could attach pictures here. I`ve added a zipfile with a picture to show what i mean. But it is indeed just a very small thing. Feel free to ignore it

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Not sure what you mean with the color dialogues. I can't add a hex display because it's inbuilt in MMF.

The screenshot what i mean is in the second zip

Ah, now i get it. Thanks for explanation

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For colors, you have to use GetRGB().
E.g. GetRGB(random(256),random(256),random(256)).

Something like that as explanation in the expression editor would be great

Would it be possible to add radial gradients, and be able to apply these to the alpha channel?

Also being able to draw other shapes besides rectangles onto the alpha channel would be nice too.

Excellent!

It runs flawlessly in DX8/9 and Software. Which I was worried about.

I think it might be conflicting with another extension in my application though, because whenever I close the application it crashes.

SO, I tried reproducing the error in a blank app by coping the code, but I can't get it to happen by itself.

I'm going to test it more when I get home, but the other (Image) extensions being used are:

-Active Picture
-Animated Picture

I have a feeling that the Animated Picture object is what's causing the problem. I preload a bunch of images into it's cache at runtime.

I'm planning on loading those images into the surface object, editing them there, then loading them into the Animated picture object after.

Also it seems the Animated picture object "locks" loaded images where they can't be accessed by other extensions. I hope the surface object doesn't do this as well.

I'll try this tonight and give the results.

Ok well when I take the surface object out the crash stops.

The crash happens in hwa and software mode.

The crash doesn't happen if no images or files are loaded at the start of the frame.

The crash doesn't happen sometimes, it seems random. But one thing is for certain, it does occur if the frame is left riinning for a little while. If it's closed right away the frame crashes.

The only action I'm performing is to draw a transparent ellipse in the center of the frame.

I'll send you a stripped mfa later.

Sorry i meant:

It DOESNT occur if the frame is left running for a little while.

It won't let me edit the post.

*Offtopic on*

Ah, so it is not just me that is not able to edit a posting. Kisguri, could you please have a look at the edit settings of the board? Zero seconds edit time seems a bit harsh to me

*Offtopic off*

Will do, as soon as I get a chance to sit down at my computer.

Oh yeah! And another suggestion.

What do you think about changing the way gradients work.

Instead of just being able to define two colors, being able to define multiple colors in the gradient and their position in the gradient in the form of a percentage.

Create Gradient with name "blah"
Add color to Gradient "blah", getRGB(100,200,150), at 0%
Add color to Gradient "blah", getRGB(50,50,50), at 23%
Add color to Gradient "blah", getRGB(0,0,0), at 100%

And if a color is added in the same position as an existing color the existing color will be replaced.

And colors in a gradient can also be retrieved via their position or index. Like-

Get color at position in Gradient "blah" at 0%
(would return whatever the value of getRGB(100,200,150) is.)

And Get color at index in Gradient "blah" at 1
(would return whatever color was DEFINED 2nd)

Something else that would be cool, but would probably be too difficult to add would be the ability to add patterns to the gradients instead of just colors.