Suggestion: editor drawing tools eraser

Alex Lowes · Thu 16/10/2003 21:52:03

It would be usefull (and I hope it's simple to impliment it) to add in the room editor an eraser tool.
It will make it much more easy than using strait lines

Privateer Puddin' · Thu 16/10/2003 21:58:18

why when you can use masks?

Alex Lowes · Thu 16/10/2003 22:05:49

Sorry I am a newbie (still) .
so I don't know what a mask is.
But why not have an earaser??

scotch · Thu 16/10/2003 22:12:13

Just being able to set the size of the brush tool to greater than 1 pixel would do it, painting with that in colour 0 is the same as erasing

Alex Lowes · Thu 16/10/2003 22:17:09

Understood

so how do you make the brush size bigger?
wait a minute hmm..
you don't have a brush tool!:)
thanks

Ishmael · Fri 17/10/2003 10:30:58

Yes you do, the freehand. You just can't make it bigger...

Alex Lowes · Sat 18/10/2003 07:23:42

So let's change the topic to:
Make the free hand bigger so it can act like an earaser,or even better:
Have ready made shapes for the brush(like big/medime/small squer,circle,etc...)

Squinky · Sat 18/10/2003 10:22:26

Quote from: Privateer Puddin' on Thu 16/10/2003 21:58:18
why when you can use masks?

I gotta second that....anyway Chris is too busy running around with my wife. Don't act all innocent Chris, I've got pictures dude...

a-v-o · Sat 18/10/2003 12:37:34

Well, all masks can be drawn in a paint program and be imported into AGS. These programs offer all stuff like zoom, shapes, brush sizes and more.

Yes, Chris can spend his time in coding such stuff again, so that it is inside AGS. On the other hand I think it's ok, that Chris spends his time in implementing features into AGS that can't be done with other programs. If the bug and feature list ever gets empty then ... :

Pumaman · Sat 18/10/2003 20:02:31

Yeah, I appreciate that the area drawing tools are rather poor, but they're only designed for minor touch-ups and basic editing - you're really expected to draw the walkable mask in a seperate paint program using layers and so forth.

CB.. · Sun 19/10/2003 02:32:28

AGS is fantastic , i being a newbie, am just using the in built paint tools to draw the regions hot spots etc it's fine apart from two of the regions (4 and 7 i think?) are both red which can get a bit confusing...tho i'd love it if the region colours were semi transparant so i can double check whats underneath makes life hard if i have a large region on the room somtimes..but this would not be a priority i must admit!!
many thanks for a great programme !

Scummbuddy · Mon 20/10/2003 07:38:30

An opacity level, or just a standard 50 percent opacity level would actually be pretty nice.

Alex Lowes · Mon 20/10/2003 09:00:21

Dido

CB.. · Mon 20/10/2003 11:02:51

or perhaps if only the currently selected region was displayed on the editor screen so yu could cycle thru the regions
then add a view all user regions check box to see them all at the same time ?
might just about do the same job and be easier to implement..?
any good?

Pumaman · Mon 20/10/2003 21:22:58

I did implement 50% transparency at one point, but it was painfully slow.

Just displaying the current area is a good idea, something that has been suggested in the past. I'll make sure it's on my list.

Gilbert · Tue 21/10/2003 04:16:22

Yeah, moreover just displaying one area one time solves the problem of distinguishing different areas with the limited colours (ie easier to increase the limits). I'll suggest also (as I suggested before) an option to display the current selected area in one colour and the others ALL in ONE other colour (eg. gray), this way you can have sort of a guide so as not to cover up the other areas with the current colour say for example.

Pumaman · Tue 21/10/2003 20:30:00

Yep, good idea.