ildaGen - ILDA file creation tool

[Grix]

Ok, I will try to get legacy ilda importing working for the next version.

By the way, I released a new version today, v0.9.5hf. It's just a hotfix, because I noticed that the curve tool was not working properly in 0.9.5. So no major new features, but updating is recommended.

One new minor feature made it to the release though: A couple of drop-down menus to make settings more intuitive. If you click the DENS (point density) button, you can now choose "High, medium or low" detail instead of just being asked to input a number. You can also select "Auto", (which is now default), and the program will try to set the best-ish option automatically so that you don't have to bother with the button at all. A similar drop down menu is also available if you right click the end-dots button.

[danielbriggs]

*Feature request*

Would it be possible to edit colours by number 0-255 as well as the mini sliders etc?
Maybe double click or right click the RGB squares to enter an exact value?

Also... I made 30 or so frames last night to build into my live workspace.

[Grix]

Allright, I can add that to the next version for sure

[Grix]

I have a new version for you today, 0.9.6, with a bunch of new, very cool features if I dare say so myself!

- Text tool
You can now write text, thanks to Laserboy's font ilda files. You can choose from several different fonts, from fancy outlines to super scanner-friendly single-lined.
- Shaking animation
- Scope selection
Very useful feature, you can now select the editing scope, in other words exactly which frames you want to edit or place the animation at.
- Rainbow coloring
- Import ILDA format 0 and 1
- Laserboy included
Laserboy itself is now included with ildaGen, and the manual has a few chapters on how to use it, to for example convert files exported from ildagen into legacy ILDA format 0 or 1.
- More settings related to f.ex onion skinning, reapplying, manual color channel adjustment etc
- Too many bugfixes and minor improvements to count

PS: I am also announcing a price hike in the near future. The program have already grown a lot since it was released, with probably close to twice the amount of features. It will still be relatively cheap, though, and of course all existing purchases or purchases from now until the price change will not be affected.

[danielbriggs]

Thanks for the update!

Minor bugs: (Windows 8.1 64-bit)
- When you maximise (which works) you can no longer un-maximise (unless you restart the app).
- Ultra-minor-pickyness: Icon is fairly low resolution
- When importing an ILDA file, and then you cancel the file dialogue, it errors:

___________________________________________
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Mouse Event for Left Pressed
for object obj_import:

Push :: Execution Error - Variable Get -1.ild_list(100225, -2147483648)
at gml_Script_import_ilda
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_import_ilda (line 0)
gml_Object_obj_import_Mouse_4

Re: Pricing; this application is EASILY worth 5x it's current price. After using it and seeing how rapid the development is, and how far it's come in such a short space of time (which I assume the app will only carry on improving!) even 10x the current price would be "good value" if future V0.x updates are free.

Best Regards,
Dan

[Grix]

Thanks for the feedback.

As for the most pressing bug, the error at importing, I have fixed it and reuploaded the installers. So try downloading it again and it should be fixed.

[james]

############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Mouse Event for Left Pressed
for object obj_import:

Am I the only one who sees the irony in this?

JK

James.

[cfavreau]

What?!??! Laserboy doesn't handle mouse events? Get out of here!

[Grix]

Thanks for the feedback.

As for the most pressing bug, the error at importing, I have fixed it and reuploaded the installers. So try downloading it again and it should be fixed.

Oops, turns out I uploaded the wrong files, so it didn't get fixed after all. I have reuploaded the installers yet again, and this time it should work. Sorry about that

[james]

It's probably worth noting how LaserBoy ILDA font files work.

LaserBoy comes with a set of ILDA files named font_(something).ild

Each one is a set of frames and each frame contains a single glyph from the Latin Alphabet, digits, punctuation and other symbols in the exact same order as they appear in the ASCII table, from ! to ~.

A space (ASCII 32) is assumed to take up some space but produce no visible character and the rest of the visible characters are from ASCII 33 to ASCII 126.

So, a string of text is translated to vector elements, one character at a time by looking up the ASCII value and using the frame index of that value - 33.

James.