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[sarducardun]

Hey guys, I'm trying to start spriting but using GIMP 2.0 there is no way to create a 'circle 10' tool (the size of a small mount base) or any other even circle, which makes my chosen faction style a massive pain. I'm wondering if there is a free tool out there with even circles or any other tools I should try for SS sprites before settling?

[Debido]

Hey guys, I'm trying to start spriting but using GIMP 2.0 there is no way to create a 'circle 10' tool (the size of a small mount base) or any other even circle, which makes my chosen faction style a massive pain. I'm wondering if there is a free tool out there with even circles or any other tools I should try for SS sprites before settling?

Try a circular mask?

[kazi]

Use the circle select tool, create a selection of any size, edit the selection size manually to 10x10 in the tool dialog box (lower left corner for me), fill in circle with desired color or go to 'Edit->Stroke Selection' to create a circular line.

[Tecrys]

I would recommend to copy/paste the vanilla mounts or to create a seperate image with the cutout vanilla mount which you could customize for your faction and then take it as a template.

On the other hand you could use Paint to draw circles and import these into Gimp.

I do agree that Gimp might be difficult to get used to but as soon as you get the hang of it it is a very powerful tool.

[sarducardun]

Well stroke selection refuses to make a ten px circle as well.
@ Tecrys, that was my initial idea but my weapons will be orbs, meaning they will need to be the same size or a twelve to work comfortably. Those orbs need dodging with increasingly smaller circles to make a rounded finish (quickly), then I need circular glows, also requiring even circles to centre on the mount effectively. All other weapon sizes have the same problem. Basically I want to be constantly using 'even' circles and gimp doesn't do any.
I could do it but it will take ages, I'm hoping there are easier tools.

[Tecrys]

Make 'em with paint and import them into Gimp when they are finished.

[sarducardun]

Ok then, paint it is, Thanks guys.

[Thaago]

Gimp totally does uniform circles. Just hold down shift when using the oval select and it will snap to a circle. The bottom left corner of the image window will have the pixel count. It may be a different button on your computer, but its shift on mine.

It can be a pain to learn it, but Gimp can do anything.

[xenoargh]

Silly question:

Is the top of the map at engine.getMapHeight() / 2  or engine.getMapHeight() / -2 ?

Got the answer (sorry, kind of a space cadet today, work was fun, lol).  Positive Y is the top of the map.

[Alex]

Yep. Everything in the game uses the standard coordinate system, i.e. left to right and bottom to top.

[Uomoz]

I'm unable to spawn a floating text:

Vector2f playerShipLoc = engine.getPlayerShip().getLocation();
engine.addFloatingText(playerShipLoc, "test", 20f, Color.red, engine.getPlayerShip(), 1f, 2f);
engine.addHitParticle(playerShipLoc, playerShipLoc, 5, 1, 1, Color.yellow);

This correctly spawns a particle on the ship, but never spawns a floating text. Am I doing something wrong?

[Alex]

This looks right to me. I just tried adding it to a test combat plugin, and it spawned the text.

[Thaago]

I think I'm doing something really dumb - help me out?

I had a working ship that I was testing - everything worked fine, but I thought it was too small. I resized the sprite, and also cropped off some superfluous transparent pixels at one border. I then redid the .ship file using trylobots editor, setting new bounds, weapons, and engines.

However, in game all of the weapons and engines are wrong! I've double checked that the sprite and .ship files got changed correctly. The editor loads the image and .ship just fine, and everything is in the right spot.

Is there any way the game is using a cached version of the .ship file? Its pretty much the only reason I can think of for this happening.

[Debido]

I'm aware that it saves variants under /saves/missions

This can cause issues. Delete them.

[Uomoz]

This looks right to me. I just tried adding it to a test combat plugin, and it spawned the text.

Oh my. Forgot I disabled the floating text inside the options menu xD.

Derp.