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bamcquern

#1 November 21, 2013, 07:01:30 am

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Hi saltworlders. I tried to search for an appropriate old topic, but the flood filter slowed me down.

I'm looking for a free drawing program that does black and white textures the way Clarisworks used to in the early 90s. Mac graphics, basically, like this:

Do you have any recommendations?

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skulldrone

#2 November 21, 2013, 07:48:21 am

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I would just use photoshop and make a 4x4 checker pattern to use as a fill for the dithering. It seems pretty easy to cheese on any program.

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bamcquern

#3 November 21, 2013, 08:27:31 am

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I don't have photoshop. I forgot that paint.net has these (but not custom patterns?). I'll use that unless a better rec comes along.

Thanks for responding! Sorry for answering my own question.

Last Edit: November 21, 2013, 08:27:44 am by bamcquern

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#4 November 21, 2013, 08:39:54 am

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It would be pretty cool to get one of these old painting programs running in an emulator.

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#5 November 21, 2013, 09:19:30 am

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The only thing I could suggest that hasn't been suggested already is maybe EasyToon. It is made for gif animations, but I think I remember it having a few binary tone-texture paints for the purpose of two color animating. You could just have a singe-frame project with a large canvas if you were just wanting to paint with it.

If you want the full gambit of patterns, all I could suggest is drawing the repeating pattern manually, and using some image manip magic in a program that supports selecting individual regions with the magic wand tool to fill in the rest.

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denzquix

#6 November 21, 2013, 11:16:16 am

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Quote from: Happy HELLoween on November 21, 2013, 08:39:54 am

It would be pretty cool to get one of these old painting programs running in an emulator.

Mini vMac runs pretty good

(It's one of those emulators where you need to find a ROM image separately, though.)

Last Edit: November 21, 2013, 11:22:08 am by denzquix

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#7 November 21, 2013, 12:59:32 pm

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"Oh no!"

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#8 November 21, 2013, 05:32:37 pm

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this is real cool http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/ditheroid/

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bamcquern

#9 November 22, 2013, 12:04:32 am

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Oh man, I'm remembering what I went through last time I tried to unpack a .sit file in XP. I did it all for this cartoony economics sim, Run for the Money, which I only played for about 10 minutes:

Let's see if I can get ClarisDraw running.

Last Edit: November 22, 2013, 12:04:52 am by bamcquern

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#10 November 22, 2013, 12:16:45 am

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Quote from: bamcquern on November 22, 2013, 12:04:32 am

i... understand economics...

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bamcquern

#11 November 22, 2013, 12:18:15 am

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I don't see the dsk file! I don't understand.

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bamcquern

#12 November 22, 2013, 12:21:10 am

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I guess it's a CD-rom? I don't know how to run it. Trying something else.

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bamcquern

#13 November 22, 2013, 12:46:34 am

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#14 November 22, 2013, 01:06:18 am

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lol easytoon. this is fun.

Btw, if you're trying to unpack old .sit files, try using Stuffit Expander 7.0 for Windows. That was the only version I got to work. I don't know where I got my copy, but there's a copy here.

Last Edit: November 22, 2013, 01:24:41 am by bamcquern

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#15 November 22, 2013, 01:17:32 pm

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salt water fish

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#16 November 22, 2013, 03:11:09 pm

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http://www.cloudpaint.com/client/index.php

You have to go to the Goodies > Brush Shape menu to change brush size.

Last Edit: November 22, 2013, 03:21:20 pm by esiann

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bamcquern

#17 November 29, 2013, 06:45:37 pm

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drawing tablet lesson one: sit comfortably at a table or a desk while you work.

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#18 November 29, 2013, 09:00:56 pm

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your very own microsoft paint has these features (or had i don't know what its like past windows 7)

image > attributes > black + white

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bamcquern

#19 December 02, 2013, 08:00:05 am

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If I have transparent parts in my gifs and I don't want them to be transparent in my game, should I fill them in white? Or does it all depend?

What gamemaking program would be best to make something in a Myst-style slideshow? No transitions, just clicking in hot spots. I'd want my gifs to scale without blurring, too. I've used gamemaker a couple of iterations back, but I'm out of touch with it. Would that be appropriate? Is there something simpler?

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bamcquern

#20 December 02, 2013, 08:05:54 am

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I like certain features paint has in b&w that paint.net doesn't have. Paint seems to do layering really well. Feels like using actual monochrome paints (whatever that means).

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