Re: [Pipmak-Users] Autocubic: my reply to C.Walther

[Andrea V. <and...@gm...>]

Christian Walther <cwalther <at> gmx.ch> writes:

Hi Chris!

> I wouldn't spend too much thought or work on this at this time. I expect 
> allowing arbitrary placement of patch corners in 3D to be quite simple 
> to implement, so I'd wait for that. I'm not making any promises, but 
> maybe I'll have a go at it over the easter weekend.

Wow, if you will add this function to pipmak would be wonderful!!

Can I expose to you some other ideas?
 
While you will be on the way, if it isn't too difficult to implement, 
would be useful (of course... for my target, but probably
could be useful also for other people)
another function which able to cut a region inside a patch
using another picture like a mask (which could be only black and white)...
and the region cut will become transparent. 
(off course the patch must be a PNG).

I try to explain better with an example:

Imagine that I have a picture of a wall, and I want to put a door in 
the middle, I need a method to make an hole...otherwise I need two pictures,
One without hole and another with ..

Would be useful also the opposite, i.e.: the possibility of use the
discarded region: imagine that I make a picture with all the 
alphabetic letters inside, I could make a function that write some text
on a layer cutting the letters directly from that picture...
I could change font just changing the picture... 

And what you think about possibility to arbitrary rotate a patch...
(for now pipmak give us the possibility to flip a patch using
negative width and height)
useful for realize some instrumentation like pressure meters, compass,
clocks and other tools equipped with pointers...
(I'm thinking to vary enigmas could be found in the Myst saga...)    

Well, I don't know how could be complex implement these because I don't 
know which type of primitive functions are put on hand by SDL Library..

Ok,Ok, don't worry, these are only ideas...

You can estimate better than me if it is the case to introduce
these functionalities, or not, 
and which of these would have the precedence,
or if before it's better spent time to improve other parts of Pipmak..
   
If you implement just a single function to allow arbitrary placement
of patch corners in 3D could be sufficient and very usefull for me.

Thank you very much and Happy Easter!!! 

Ciao e Buona Pasqua!!

P.S.: Don't work too much, rests a little also, the Holidays are important!!