Topic: TOTALLY NEW FEATURES IN LASERBOY!

[drlava]

Have you figured out that you can change the color of the display background so that you can see black?

James. 

I'm pretty sure I can't see black no matter what color the display background is 

But, I did know it was possible, but haven't done it as it hasn't been an issue so far.

[James]

Don't you have a black laser?

What a loser!

I've got about 650mW of black!

It's a near perfect ZERO nanometers!

Puts an INTENSE black dot wherever it hits!

I'll sell you one! 

James. 

[Fanny Pack]

You can scale and rotate them according to their own geometric center or a fulcrum that you can place anywhere; even outside of 16-bit 3D integer space!

Nice.  This is something I have wanted for creating animated cartoon stuff.  If you add support for a mouse LaserBoy will be my best friend.

[James]

Hmmmm. You might be surprised by how much he already likes you. 

James. 

[James]

Since LaserBoy can detect lit segments as individual drawing objects, it can create animations by moving, rotating or scaling individual elements of a frame.

This produces effects that are totally outside of what you get by maipulating the whole frame in some similar way.

James. 

[Fanny Pack]

Yea, I want to be able to select an arm and then rotate it around a shoulder point without effecting the rest.  I have seen it done in other vector based drawing applications.  Basically, they let you just drag and boundary around some segments, click a pivot point and then rotate it with the mouse.  Take about 3 seconds to do.  Very nice.

[James]

You can do that sort of thing in LaserBoy. That's exactly why I came up with the movable fulcrum.

You can also do a lot of neat things to separate the individual parts of a drawing and put them back together in a particular order; including grouping lit segments together with "lit black".

You can put the fulcrum anywhere in a drawing on either the egg or the spider selection cursor with a key tap.

You have seen the Zippy animation that comes with LaserBoy. Right? The head and the hand are moved that way.

James.