the terrible new deco layer

  • jacob1
    28th Aug 2012 Developer 3 Permalink
    Don't worry, it's not completely finished yet. It has some cool new features (sliders), but others are completely missing (seeing what color you have) or broken (smudge tool). I don't think Simon wants the large deco box back, but when I make my mod in tpt++, I'll have an option to show the box, like In my tpt mod (but that version doesn't have the sliders so its kind of pointless). If the huge deco box was there all the time, you might find it annoying like I did on my mod. I'm thinking I'll make it only appear if you press b.

    And it should show the color you are drawing soon.
  • Potbelly
    28th Aug 2012 Banned 0 Permalink
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  • boxmein
    28th Aug 2012 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    @jacob1 (View Post)
    I suppose having the colour picker at least optionally would be beneficial.
  • NUCLER_FOX
    30th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    I hope the next version will have new gases,Now on topic! the new deco layer confuses me like hell but i might get list to it but i hope we see are drawings in better forum out of dmnd. by the way the server slide is that going to be fixed? or it's staying.

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  • babay
    30th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    meh, i really don't understand why there's so much hate to the new deco. i found it even easier to use (though i don't use it too often) maybe it lacks some kind of palette, but otherwise it's better than the old one.

  • epicksl
    30th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    take a month of elemetary art and you can easily change colors by adjusting thier complements. I agree that it is kinda cumbersome tho

  • Tuna7
    30th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    The new deco SUCKS. Just add the new tools to the old deco and we'll all be fine.

  • jacob1
    31st Aug 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    There are just some improvements that need to be made, and then I would like it even without the deco box (I still want a way to have it though, just not all the time and disabled by default, because then whenever you move your mouse near the deco menu box, a large thing appears right in the middle of the save and it gets in the way)

    1. The new tools go so fast that you can't even tell what they do. They also leave weird marks around the edges of where you are drawing sometimes. I think MUL and DIV are LIGH and DARK when your current color is white, but i'm not sure. LIGH and DARK are definitely gone, but these new ones might be better if they could work better.

    2. The smudge tool also goes really fast, and it doesn't work correctly. Over time it just erases any deco, because it smudges it until it's gone.

    3. The buttons need to have / change colors. SET should always be your selected color, CLR should have an icon or something (an 'x' that's an opposite of your current color?), SMDG should have the same design as before, and the new ones could have something new, it doesn't matter exactly what they look like, just not black.

    4. When right clicking with SET selected, it should clear decoration and ignore sr. This works perfectly fine in my mod, and makes more sense.

    5. Flood fill should also work (it doesn't work in tpt, but making it work would take only a few lines, and it does work in my mod. It only flood fills on the element's type you used it on)

    -- The sliders go in increments of 6. I don't know if there is a way to improve it, and with the textboxes, it isn't that important.

    -- Preset colors are gone. I forgot about it when I first made the list, and don't have this in my mod, so it isn't really important. I don't know how it would even be added into a menu, it would need another section.

    Basically, it should act sort of like how the deco menu works in my mod, just with the new sliders and tools my mod doesn't have, and without the deco box.
  • NUCLER_FOX
    31st Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    But will we, be able  to see are art on the screen before clicking your save?

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