New picture editor!

[eidolon]

Whoop!

I've just started out to write a new picture editor.
Please visit my website for info!

Comments, suggestions and threats are welcome!

[Nick Sonneveld]

I think it looks great.  any idea when there will be a release?

- Nick

[Chris Cromer]

Wow that looks good. I can't wait to try it.

[eidolon]

Thanks for the encouragement!

Maybe in a couple of weeks there will be something, but I'm trying not to make this a rush job.



Please let me know if there is something you wish for. I am not an AGI vet so I really don't know what the most indicated features are.

[Nailhead]

Awesome! APE is looking good. Good luck on this.

by the way, will it be open source?

[eidolon]

Thx!

Open source?
- Absolutely, how else would I get the bugs fixed?

Besides... information should be free, right?

[Nick Sonneveld]

Eidolon.. hows the editor coming along?  Have you managed to find time to work on it?

- Nick

[eidolon]

Yes, I had a little time to spare today!!
So, a few lines of code were written, and it compiled w/o errors (for once)! This is what I have done so far:


You can download a VERY early beta of APE on this temporary site:

http://agi.angelcities.com/

[Nick Sonneveld]

Very nice.. is there any way you could add the ability to remap keys?  my keyboard doesn't have a keypad so I'm unable to zoom in and out.  How are you planning to design the interface?  similar to picedit or something different?

- Nick

[Chris Cromer]

That looks great, I like the faded priority thing.

[Chris Cromer]

Here is a pic taken from the fan game V, I noticed some distortion in it when I loaded it, I have circled the places that have this distortion.

[eidolon]

I have changed the zoom keys, extirpated the plotting bug and added a simple way to move objects. But I think that it feels quite unwieldy, so I must take a little break and chew it over.


http://agi.angelcities.com/ape.zip


I want to simplify picture editing as far as possible. Colour and priority are properties of an object instead of independent commands, all line types appear the same,
special tools for drawing curved lines, etc.

[Nick Sonneveld]

Well, if you have trouble with the rendering.. You should check out the Sarien, AGIL code or ask me and I'll email you the picture render code from NAGI.

Are you planning on supporting external background pics to draw over like Picedit? The PCX support in picedit is broken I believe.. so it would be nice if other formats were later supported.

- Nick

[eidolon]

Thank you, but I hope I

[eidolon]

Ok, so now APE supports template images (I have included one too).
You can try it if you like and tell me if it works. What I