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  • Ansi Painter

    From Tharkys@VERT to All on Tue May 24 06:28:53 2011
    I wonder why no one has made an ANSI painter that paints in the manner of more modern programs such as Photoshop. As far as I've seen, the only real option out there for people like me is to use Pablo Draw. However, I still see it as clumsy and time consuming to actually use because I can't use the mouse to draw. Is there something out there that I am missing?

    Tharkys

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  • From art@VERT/FATCATS to Tharkys on Wed May 25 13:15:48 2011
    Re: Ansi Painter
    By: Tharkys to All on Tue May 24 2011 06:28:53

    Hi Tharkys

    I wonder why no one has made an ANSI painter that paints in the manner of modern programs such as Photoshop. As far as I've seen, the only real option out there for people like me is to use Pablo Draw. However, I still see it clumsy and time consuming to actually use because I can't use the mouse to draw. Is there something out there that I am missing?

    Not really, as far as I'm aware.

    You may want to try TundraDraw, but it's still keyboard based, primarily. Selecting stuff can be done via mouse, and copy and pasting.

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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to Tharkys on Wed May 25 19:19:38 2011
    Re: Ansi Painter
    By: Tharkys to All on Tue May 24 2011 06:28 am

    I wonder why no one has made an ANSI painter that paints in the manner of more modern programs such as Photoshop. As far as I've seen, the only real option out there for people like me is to use Pablo Draw. However, I still see it as clumsy and time consuming to actually use because I can't use the mouse to draw. Is there something out there that I am missing?

    There's no real way of drawing with the mouse because there are so many characters to choose from. SyncDraw supports mouse drawing but it's pretty crap, you'd be better off sticking with Pablo.

    If you have more details as to what you're thinking of, I may be able to slap them into SyncDraw.

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  • From Tharkys@VERT to All on Thu May 26 08:12:48 2011
    Re: Ansi Painter
    By: Deuce to Tharkys on Wed May 25 2011 07:19 pm

    If you have more details as to what you're thinking of, I may be able to slap them into SyncDraw.


    What I'm after is something with a "palate" that you can select the ANSI character like you would a brush shape in photoshop. There would be another pallate that allows you to pick the fore/background color. Then the act of painting would be done by holding the left mouse button down and dragging your mouse as every other paint program does.

    Does this make sense?

    Tharkys

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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to Tharkys on Thu May 26 13:31:50 2011
    Re: Ansi Painter
    By: Tharkys to All on Thu May 26 2011 08:12 am

    If you have more details as to what you're thinking of, I may be able to slap them into SyncDraw.

    What I'm after is something with a "palate" that you can select the ANSI character like you would a brush shape in photoshop. There would be another pallate that allows you to pick the fore/background color. Then the act of painting would be done by holding the left mouse button down and dragging your mouse as every other paint program does.

    So bascially, you want the same character in the same colour in lines drawn by the mouse? I'm not sure that this is really something you see in ANSI art... do you have an example ANSI you have draw where this would have worked well?

    Does this make sense?

    Maybe, but I'm not sure... it wouldn't be to hard to add this mode as a toggle in SyncDraw though if you're actually interested. "Scribble Mode" perhaps?

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  • From Tharkys@VERT to All on Fri May 27 13:19:45 2011
    Re: Ansi Painter
    By: Deuce to Tharkys on Thu May 26 2011 01:31 pm

    So bascially, you want the same character in the same colour in lines drawn by the mouse?

    Maybe? I was thinking more along the lines of the same character and color being drawn in the direction that you move the mouse. Just as if you took a real paintbrush, dipped it in paint and dragged it along a wall. It might not be possible, but it seemed more intuitive than the current method to me.

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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to Tharkys on Fri May 27 14:32:27 2011
    Re: Ansi Painter
    By: Tharkys to All on Fri May 27 2011 01:19 pm

    Maybe? I was thinking more along the lines of the same character and color being drawn in the direction that you move the mouse. Just as if you took a real paintbrush, dipped it in paint and dragged it along a wall. It might not be possible, but it seemed more intuitive than the current method to
    me.

    The biggest problem with that is the resolution... when you swipe in diagonals, you almost never get what you expect. Just to be clear on what we're talking about, you would select high intensity red, then drag like this:

    ▓▓▓▓▓▓
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    Is that correct?

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