X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,dbf9ef5f321276fe X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-30 16:40:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: new idea for jave: layers Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:37:33 +0100 Organization: T-Online Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1009759084 04 19609 ghmATAyES9AB1c 011231 00:38:04 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520084321266-0001@t-dialin.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:13154 layers would have quite a few advantages: they can be edited seperately so if you need to do a freehand that is below another object or if you have to move an object covered by another one you can do that easily in animations objects move frequently (that's the use of an animation heheh) and when two objects cover each other you wouldn't need to redraw them once they move away from each other again for cartoons or cartoon animations you could actually have 3 layers... a front objects layer (cars, tables) a character layer and a background layer.. if you animated the character the other layers wouldn't be affected i got the idea of solid spaces when copy-pasting a hollow object over a solid object, however the hollow object should have actually been solid white. because they had curved outlines it looked ugly but when switching the selection mode to "foreground" all the chars of the solid object within the hollow one were still there solid spaces are another very useful feature for layers because if we take our 3-layer cartoon scene you could animate the character without reediting the frames although in the foreground there is an object with a solid white surface where the character would be seen through otherwise can you handle that markus? not now but in a future version (but preferrably as soon as possible) -- ' + ` . ,-------------. + . ` . * ' \/ * . __ . ( alt.ascii-art ) . . ,-----------. ` (oO) -._'"- ( ,. _.' `-------------' ' ( you said it )_,' vv . `" `-` . ' * ` + `-----------' . JL