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Custom Alphas Module

Postby Manaburn on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:39:48 GMT

It'd be great if you added a feature where we could imput our own custom alphas. Sort of like the Pattern Brush in Painter.
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Re: Custom Alphas Module

Postby Karl DD on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:44:58 GMT

Actually we have been discussing something like this. Keep in mind everything is Vector, so it has to be shape based with hard edges.
What were talking about was some kind of brush that sprayed out random shapes from a folder of vectors.

Is this sort of what you mean?
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Re: Custom Alphas Module

Postby Rezeroth on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:35:43 GMT

I agree with Manaburn on that.. it'll be cool to have that so its sorta like custom brushes for Photoshop and Oainter that way ppl could be a lot more creative with the software. A lil more DIY i think... It might make the software bigger in size though but i think its worth looking into. :D my 2 cents..software is great so far though :D CHEERS!!
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Re: Custom Alphas Module

Postby kollatt on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:32:06 GMT

i think this is a brilliant suggestion, and could definitely be a good answer to the shape language issue. maybe alchemy could have a custom vector inventory that samples images. it would give a very open ended solution to an already powerful shape tool. i think the key would be keeping it different from other software that uses alpha images. maybe combining two images at once? i dunno..
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Re: Custom Alphas Module

Postby Karl DD on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:30:48 GMT

In some format or another this is definitely on the cards for the next version.
The other thing that springs to mind is a way to submit/receive new shapes from the Alchemy server.
Assuming most people have broadband, this could be an interesting way to introduce different brush shapes, and build up a kind of community shape library.
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Re: Custom Alphas Module

Postby Manaburn on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:23:39 GMT

Wish I had gotten back to look at this sooner. I just DLed the latest and have not even checked it out yet. I hope you keep the idea of having a shareable library for the comunity in your plans for upcoming releases. It would be cool to share the library's of shapes we had gathered with others and vice versa.
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Re: Custom Alphas Module

Postby Karl DD on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:10:49 GMT

Definitely.
We have started building that module and are hoping to get some help towards making the server side.

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