Gallery Show Current Factory Category Technique

[Synthetik]

We've received a lot of requests to add a current factory preset category gallery show technique option.  So that new feature was added to our development code base this afternoon. I've been playing around with this new gallery show option and it's actually pretty useful.  It's a great way to audition different factory preset categories when used with the random source  gallery show option.

This new feature isn't available for general consumption yet, but you should have access to it when we send out 4.02 builds. If there are any more potential gallery show features that you think would be useful, feel free to make your suggestions.

[liveart]

I'd like to see:

Mutate current favs
&
use existing bezier for a draw source option

[Synthetik]

I thought that mutate current favorites was in there, and a look at the code shows that it is coded. But it looks like you can't currently select it as a gallery show technique option. I'll run a few tests to make sure it isn't turned off for a reason and then add it as a technique option.

I can add current path frame as a paint draw option. I suppose random bezier memory might be fun as well.

[Synthetik]

Mutate current favorites was turned on in our 4.1 development code base. There's actually a few things in there that are extra gallery show features, so i'll try to migrate all that new stuff back to 4.02.

I also just added mutate current factory preset category. I'm running some tests with that now.

[Thorrific]

awesome

[Synthetik]

OK, current path frame and random bezier memory are now additional gallery show paint draw options.

[Synthetik]

Watching random bezier memory paint draw option is actually pretty interesting. I can see how it could be really useful for building personalized art gallery gallery shows that draw a series of constrained paintings in a variety of different styles.

With the test i'm running, i'm randomly mutating a factory preset category to create constrained randomly evolved paint presets that then paint in a randomly chosen bezier path memory. I'm also using a favorites category that contains a series of transition presets to modify the existing painted canvas with drip or feather transition effects as a star cycle option for the gallery show. It's a pretty effective way to build a dynamic art show.

I'm thinking about adding a folder option so you could point it at a folder of bezier path frame exports to make it more flexible. So that way you could use more than 4 sets of bezier paths for random or sequential access.

If we ever bring back bezier collections i could see how that would be pretty useful as well for this kind of thing.

[liveart]

Very cool- I know I will be using these. Not just for constrained paintings either but for those presets that run differently on a path vs random start.

PLEASE do bring back bezier collections... you could do it via a favs folder option but I rather see the collections more integrated to the program-AND- have a folder option too.

are these additions in 4.02 or 4.1?

[Synthetik]

I wanted to point out that there are already a bunch of gallery show paint draw options that use path drawing. So you could use something like source edge now if you are looking to constrain the painting to the use the paint path frame code.


Anything experimental like this is initially added to the 4.1 development code base. So that's where this stuff lives right now. Because we don't want to do anything that potentially affects the stability of the current release builds.

But like i said before, i think we're going to back migrate a lot of the cool new feature stuff in 4.1 that doesn't require framework changes back to a 4.02 release build. We did something similar where a bunch of interesting features originally placed in 4.1 were migrated back to 4.01 builds. I don't know when we're going to release 4.02, all release builds are subject to a lot of testing to insure there aren't any stability issues.

[Synthetik]

Here's a link to some new paint presets i generated during some testing of the new gallery show mutate current factory category technique.

[Rondan]

Where should these be placed? The title (galleryshowpresets) displays in Paint synthesizer classic, but the presets don't show up?