[Bobboau]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,44931.0.html

oh, you mean how I was makeing the AVIs,

vurtual dub.

and I make the AVIs from the TGA sources.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Perfect.

Right - well, that was a lot of work for an effect I don't really like, but it works, I'm really getting the hang of the program, and can think of a great many future uses for this.
Not to mention the ones I haven't thought of yet....

http://sectorgame.com/ti-file-dump/VasudanAdmiral/New_EnergyPipe.avi

[Bobboau]

very nice,
needs to be on the glow map though

[Vasudan Admiral]

Heh, not really to be honest.

I'd have no use for this in it's current state, but now that I have the technique, I have big-purdy-glowey-plans for the future.

[Water]

I updated the ZIP, you should now be able to use E and PI ect... as PART of a name, no numbers

Didn't see that coming.  Programming is a different world. 

[Bobboau]

well PI, E, and PHI are inbuilt constants, it was only a problem because I had it replace those with there numeric equivelents, now I have it check to see i there is anything before or after it if it finds it just leave it be.

[DaBrain]

Wow... now that's really handy. 


There isn't any way to make this whole thing flowchart-based, is it?

[Bobboau]

nope, the whole interface (and I don't just mean the GUI, internal coding interfaces too) is built around it being script based. and the script is MUCH faster to make things once you get the hang of it. is it really that big a deal to have to type out what you want? rather than right click slelect right click select right click select you just; 1+1.

[Water]

I updated the zip, it now has image layer support, so you can now use any image as a source, which means this is now useful to texture artists, especially if you want to make cool animations.

This does mean external files, jpg, tga etc ? and if so how 

[DaBrain]

nope, the whole interface (and I don't just mean the GUI, internal coding interfaces too) is built around it being script based. and the script is MUCH faster to make things once you get the hang of it. is it really that big a deal to have to type out what you want? rather than right click slelect right click select right click select you just; 1+1.

I know what I want, but I don't know the functions for it.

[Bobboau]

@water: yes, you make an image layer (it's in the same place as HSL or RGB) and you put the filename into the quotes of the ++img="" line, you will almost definately need to set the texture file path to the directory were your images are (unless you use the full path to the file).

@DaBrain: I've listed all the functions, what do you want that you can't find? note this doesn't use the same paradime as photoshop, so unless you can quantify how there filtering methods work I can't say how to implement the here.

[Water]

I know what I want, but I don't know the functions for it.

I think the only way to solve this over time is to build up a library of files with associated picture reference. This would allow a starting point by choosing the reference pic that is closest to what you want. This would give it more appeal to anyone trying it out for the first time.

@Bobboau
Thanks - It is much more stable loading layers now.

[Bobboau]

good!