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I agree. That kind of feature is likely to take a long time though, but i hope i will eventually be able to do it!
I agree, I'd love to make a Linux version. Unfortunately I don't have a Linux machine to test on, and the code currently relies on a lot of windows-specific things so it would be a big task to make it platform-independent.
There are more and more people asking for this though, so I'll start to seriously consider doing it.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for the suggestion! They're not supported by the framework I'm using, so I'd have to work out my own way of decoding and displaying them. If i can figure that out, then I'll do it!
In the mean time, you can use ezgif.com to split all of those formats into a sprite sheet that RahiTuber can use.
I think MIDI support for triggers could be a solution for the Streamer.bot integration, and it would open the possibility of using MIDI keyboards, pedals, etc. for even more state triggers too.
I like the squash and stretch idea too
At the very least I would love mouse tracking, it would add so much to the immersion of the character hahahahaha
It would be for sure. There's currently an "erase" blend mode but it might not do everything you want it to do. I'll see if I can make that more useful!
I like it! I was thinking roughly along the same lines. Just gotta figure out how to implement the actual clipping :D
Somehow I didn't notice the folder feature before and it's a gamechanger for the erase blend!!! I've just realized an inverted version of that blend called "Alpha mask" or something like that would be enough to make it more functional (and it would hopefully be easier to implement? I have no idea)
Edit: Nevermind, I thought folders would limit the layers that the erase blend would affect. I guess that would be its own request 😓
So I've been investigating SFML a bit and:
-Clipping masks have been requested for a long time and they seem to be coming to SFML3. The only workaround I found (if I'm not mistaken, It's all a bit confusing for me) is to make a custom GLSL shader. I also found this but I can't fully understand it.
-There's this tutorial that I think could be used to improve the layer blends to limit where to apply shadows, highlights, erase blend, etc. I think a checkbox for folders to turn them into groups individually would be useful.
Is any (or both) of these things possible?
Also, an unrelated request. Can we get an option to make the mouse tracking movement limits be elliptical instead of rectangular? Corners are a bit broken when using it for circular things like eyes or faces, although right now it's perfect for effects similar to SPUD tablet.
Either way, awesome job. The rate at which you add new features is awesome ^-^
Thanks! Yeah, I can definitely do custom shaders, I've done those in SFML before. It's just a case of when I get time to implement it. Clipping layers (especially inside groups etc) will need a slight rewrite of the way layers are currently rendered.
I think I see what you mean about the mouse tracking. I'll add an elliptical option when I can!
https://rahisaurus.itch.io/rahituber/devlog/831991/update-2024-11-11-v115-more-c...
Elliptical mouse tracking is done!
https://rahisaurus.itch.io/rahituber/devlog/831991/update-2024-11-11-v115-more-c...
I've added both the things you suggested, thanks for those!
There maybe is a different way to facilitate what i'm wanting, but would there be a way to have states also have a show/hide on exiting a state? Alternatively, maybe have states cause a layer to also switch from one idle picture/spritesheet to another, or like toggle a layer between idle and blink in addition to show/hide for a state?
The use case here is that I'm making a tuber whose finger movements will mirror my own on a gamepad controller. It's working pretty well! the gif is me actually moving my thumb and not animation, these are all when-held states corresponding to key events with controller. But can you see how my thumb zips back to the joystick after pressing a button?
Right now the neutral state of my right thumb is resting on the analog stick. I want it so that when I trigger a state for one of the face buttons, I want my thumb's resting picture to change from the pic of it resting on the analog stick to resting over the buttons (like how my left thumb is resting on the dpad) until I use the stick again, then I want to switch the thumb to be resting on the stick instead of over the buttons.
Is there a way to potentially do this already with the current states?
It should be possible. If you set up your layers so that only the neutral position (the finger resting over the buttons) is visible before any states are active, then it should revert to that point when those states deactivate again.
To help you understand the expected behaviour:
Internally, the default visibility of every layer is saved and updated whenever there are no states active. The States are added to a stack when they're activated, so it starts from the defaults, then adds each State effect one by one in order of activation. When the State is deactivated, it's removed from the stack, so it should stay at default when no states are active.
If that's not happening for you, let me know because that would be a bug.
For example, If do like you suggest and have my only neutral thumb position when no states are active be where it's resting over the buttons. The movement with the buttons looks better, but if I do something like move up to down on the joystick (and over the dead zone where no states are active), the thumb movement is much less natural b/c the ThumbAnalogNeutral isn't made visible
So is there a way I could make the ThumbAnalogNeutral layer visible and the ThumbBtns layer invisible after I use the stick, and then reverse when I press buttons?
You could have two "permanent" states: one activated by the thumbstick, to show rightThumbAnalogNeutral. (you'd currently have to have that duplicated for each axis direction but I will hopefully add an "any axis" trigger soon). The second permanent one would be activated by the buttons to show rightThumbBtns.
The thing with "permanent" states is that they alter the default visibility, so they would go behind any "while held" states and appear once they deactivate.
Either that, or you could have all the current states being "permanent" instead of "while held", which would mean the thumb just stays in the last position it was at, but you wouldn't have either idle pose then.
It's definitely not ideal setup, but that's currently how it could be possible. I like your idea of the "after" trigger, I'll see if I can add something like that soon!
I went out for walk and I think I came upon a solution similar to what your taking about! So the Folders! They also show up in the list of layers that you can show/hide/no change for the states. I made folder called rightThumbNeutral, I put both the neutral poses in there. Now instead of hiding specific neutral thumbs for all those when-held states, I just hide the folder. Then as you suggested, I made permanent states for the buttons/stick, those will then show/hide the specific neutral thumb. Viola! Now I can hide the neutral thumb while also changing neutral thumb
Idk if the folders are actually necessary, but it helps for me to figure it out anyway. Thanks for helping me think through this!
right now, I'm using face buttons/dpad to switch from resting on stick to resting on buttons, and the just u on the sticks for the reverse, which suits most of my purposes. An "Any Axis" trigger would be appreciated though
I've been thinking of removing that limitation actually, so it's good to know somebody wants it. I originally did it to avoid complexity in my program but that's a lost cause at this point 😅. The snag is I now have to retain the existing functionality by default so I don't break anyone's existing setups, so it'll have to be an option somewhere.
Hello again!
I was wondering if a "soft body deformation" feature would be possible. Making tentacles/tails is a pain right now, if I had to duplicate and move each part of it I'd have nightmares. The result is a bit rough too, but that might be my fault, I couldn't find info or examples and mostly improvised.
Thanks again for everything! ❤
I'd love to. That will unfortunately require some hard work (oh no) so I might take a while to get around to it.
I understand, no worry and thank you I will look into that (I am no expert either ahah) and I will keep updated here if I can make it work :)
EDIT: I got it launching with Wine indeed ! But I can't get the microphone working... It was so close ! Usually I get a prompt from Mac OS to authorize an app to use microphone but it's not showing here, so I don't know if there is a way to add manually the authorization... Or maybe it's a different issue...
