newt's Forum Posts

  • Thats a little better, but I still say an al la carte method would be better for plugs... but that depends on the plugs I guess.

    Might I ask what do you plan on making "official" as far as that goes?

    The "preorder" sounds interesting, but without knowing whats promised....

    Especially given the limitations of Html5.

  • I would like to see layouts in the near future, but mostly because then I could whip up a website in construct pretty easily....

    Yeah I know, all that stuff I learned for css positioning... out the window... happily.

    Hmmm... C2CMS...

  • Welcome to the party!

  • Versus assuming you would receive enough from the other closed source method?

    Granted you would have to set up C2 to run regardless of what features the individual has installed, but given the nature of how plugins work with exporters you pretty much have to do that anyways ...to a point.

    Also the gpl just states that when you distribute it only as a whole you must provide the source.

    [quote:1pehaf2w]These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.

    Although some parts may be arguable as separate, image editor, animator etc.

    Well at least in C0.xx...

    Keep in mind you could also start the work as soon as you have enough money committed, instead of making it, and waiting for it to pay off.

    While you wouldn't see a big income initially, but with all the little things like separate plugins for each exporter, there is a potential to make even more than selling it as a whole.

    I will say this, it would be market driven at least. You will know what people are wanting from what they are buying.

  • I noticed in the other threads Ash said they stopped committing code for the time being.

    My thought is, what if you could get paid by the hour, or project?

    Say for example you made an exe exporter, and decided you would release the code after you received enough compensation for your time, or what you felt that project was worth.

    This should still work with the fundry setup, and should still work with gpl.

    You could do this a couple different ways as well.

    One way would be to split the sum up, and when some one "donates" a set amount they would get a working version of the exe,plug, exporter, etc, then once the quota is filled release the code for everyone.

    It probably wouldn't work with every little upgrade, but there's no reason you couldn't group them either.

  • Thanks I'll check it out.

  • Trying to do something like the magic wand tool in most image editors, and I was wondering if anybody had a better idea on where to start.

    My initial thoughts are to check mouse x/y on click, and if the alpha(its either transparent or not transparent) is greater than 0 add that coord to a list, it would then check the x/y's around that, and add them to the list if they qualify, but that's about as far as I've figured, as you would need to jump to one of the contiguous pixels, and check from there next.

    Problem is how do you exclude it checking... what you've already checked?

    Thoughts?

    Ideas?

    Your doing it wrong?

  • Since we're on the subject of business models.

    http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

    With an emphasis on number 6.

  • So far there's only two models that have been looked at, open source, and commercial.

    The thing is you've had no success in either thus far.

    Construct 0.xx failed commercially because... well we wont go into that here, and it also failed as open source because it never received the full benefit of being open source.

    If you plan on just using those two possibilities, then you need to make a final decision on what you want to get out of it.

    Either a program that's completely community driven, or one that's driven monetarily.

    It would seem you've already made the decision, but I think is far too early to be thinking about licensing, since you don't have a salable product.

    The recent HTML5 addition to Gm should really drive that point across.

    That and the fact that there's very little revenue, or finished projects from Construct 0.xx.

  • Plugin for making plugins.

    Bet you could sell that one.

  • Sprite opacity.

  • Either one really.

    The only difference I see is CRC32 seems to need a tick before you can read it.

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  • Well without seeing how your doing the snap, I'd say the zoom should modify the snap by a percent.

    So if your snap was 25 with a zoom of 100 % it would be more like 50.

  • Construct splash for loading screen.

    Heh, a little cog wheel for the html5 preloader.

    I dont think anyone would mind that, if it looks cool and all.

  • Sounds like your trying to go past what bounded scrolling will allow.

    To test tick unbounded scrolling in preferences.