The second 1.5 beta is now available for testing. Only for Windows at the moment as I’ve just moved house and I forgot where I put the power lead for the Mac monitor…
This update features some very exciting new features and improvements to the editing environment:
NEW: Audio playback!
NEW: Layer mask editor!
NEW: Reworked layer blending with 24 new modes!
NEW: Drag textures and brushes onto shapes in the work area
NEW: Duplicate selected shape by pressing Ctrl+D
NEW: Delete selected shape by pressing Delete
NEW: Switch to and from edit mode by pressing Space
As this is a beta, I haven’t written up the Sequencer plugin just yet, but here’s some basic instructions.
The sequencer automates switching between textures. This can be done manually (by double-clicking on column headers and individual textures) or automated based on time duration or number of times the texture has been played.
Open the plugin window via the Windows Menu -> Sequencer
Click on Texture: Add to add a new texture
Click on Column: Add to add a new column
Drag textures from the Textures window to the rows and columns of the sequencer
Select a sequencer texture by clicking on the header where it says ‘Tex 1’, ‘Tex 2’, etc…
Draw with the normal drawing tools
Rewind Action
When a texture is activated, you can have it:
Just play normally, as though you’d selected it manually
Rewind to the beginning, if it isn’t currently being used on any other shape
Always rewind it
Exit Action
When a texture has finished playing (reaching either its set duration or play count) you can have it do the following actions:
Nothing
Clear – removes the current texture
Jump to next – advances the current texture to the next column (or wraps around to the first column)
Jump to previous – moves the current texture to the previous column (or wraps around to the last column)
Jump to random – jumps to a random column
Jump to column – jumps to a specific column (use the drop-down underneath the action to choose the column)
There are also options for controlling all the rows at the same time. The ‘All to …’ actions do the same actions as above but for all textures.
Other Controls
Double-click on the column header to change all the textures to that column
Double-click on a texture to activate it
Select one or more cell with the mouse and change the duration and/or play count
If you set the duration to 4.5 (for instance) the selected textures will play for 4.5 seconds and then perform the action.
If you set the play count to 0 (zero) the texture will loop infinitely. If you set it to 1 it will play once and then perform the action.
Select one or more cells and click on the Clear button to remove those textures
