On Friday 05 February 2010 00:08:28 Martin Renold wrote:
> hi Kent
> 
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:42:30PM -0800, Kent Loobey wrote:
> > While I was trying the undo/redo function I thought wouldn't it be neat
> > if I could record and export all of my strokes as I created my painting.
> 
> We had a few discussions about this before.
> 
> The code status is this: The functionality to record the strokes with
>  timing information (at sub-stroke level) is already there.  All strokes on
>  the undo stack have that information.  But it is only used for the "live
>  update the last canvas stroke" feature in the brush settings.  The
>  information was also used for undo, but this turned out to be too slow.
> 
> > Then after the painting was finished I could edit this stroke file into a
> > set of cels and store them in an animated GIF like format [...]
> 
> I am pretty sure we don't want to implement this on a sub-stroke level;
>  even if most code is there, the maintainence cost of a playback GUI,
>  saving and restoring the information from OpenRaster, etc.  is not worth
>  it.  Just use a desktop recording application for that.

I think you were thinking about something more sophisticated than I had in 
mind.  I decided that I would just save a png at intervals in my painting 
(maybe every time I merge my layers into the background).  Then after words I 
could edit them into a video or something like that.  If that turns out to be 
interesting I might come back to you all and ask about a way to just output 
the merge layer.
 

> Something that might be worth considering is to save a snapshot (maybe just
> a thumbnail even) of the fully rendered image every 5 minutes of active
> painting.  This would stay at a reasonable size to save it with each ORA
> (but better only do this if enabled in the preferences).  However this is
> low priority for me.

It is no priority (at the moment) for me at all.  I am now only interested in 
playing with MyPaint.  Later I hope to come back to this issue since I have 
several Android devices and I think it would be cool to have my paintings as a 
dynamic background.

I only mentioned it because MyPaint seemed like a good way to produce those 
painting/backgrounds and because I didn't think of it until I started looking 
at MyPaint.

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