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not really sure, I'll have to ask Dan. I'll get back when I find out. I do know that there are two things at play. VB scripting support, and the API. You can use the API in other ways, such as C++. As for VB scripting I think it's been around for a while. If you can see the Scripts submenu in the Filter menu, your version has it. You can also see a VBScripts subdirectory where Howler or PD Artist is installed.. Which version do you have? I can install it too and see the subdir if you want. Or just buy the current latest at 50% off through Bastille Day ;-)

there have been other ways to program it by the way including Lua and more, see www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/sdk

I know, old page. Still of value to some ;-)

If you want to join the discussion, I asked the question at the PD Howler group on Facebook - facebook.com/groups/83248621949

It looks like Dan started the development of the API around 2018 so it might be in 2018 or 2019 Edition that you would start seeing the VB Scripts

Thank you for your kind input

yes indeed and thank you

There are dozens of free tutorials on 3D Designer and Puupy Ray here at ua-cam.com/users/pdhowler Look for the playlists on River Canyon and puppyray

This video is an intro for a new paid tutorial collection. It currently has five modules and there will be a few more added over time. We will soon announce it at thebest3d.com If you follow the project dogwaffle group on Facebook you can also see additional examples and videos created by the author Dan Ritchie

Thanks. I've had both sites bookmarked for a few years. I also bought your Digital Art Live presentation on PD Howler.

@@joejoyner2330 for the new tutorial collection which has 5 parts at the moment and many more to come, we'll offer it for very low price, and extra discount at the moment. Just $0.99 after launch promo discount. There are numerous free ones to get you started too on youtube. it's now available at thebest3d.com/sales

Thank you.

Pdhowler. See pdhowler.com and thebest3d.com

If you ordered it through us at thebest3d.com with BMTmicro store it will be distributed today

Yep got it thank you I just totally love pd howler except for the layers that I'm still struggling with especially adding white paint still, love the brushes love the creativeness of it so I'm off to play some more on my fav paint app PD Howler

Yes you can if you have a selection mask. Whether it will be transparent or not is a matter of interpretation by the other program. In order to have a pixel appear transparent it has to have an alpha value. There is no automatic Alpha Channel but you do have Alpha in the selection. Then you can save it as a PNG Ford TGA for example with 32-bit to include the elephant Channel. Another place or another way to do it is to save the image you have in the custom brush. That one is rgba. For example if you paint with the particle brushes in the 1st of the four modes known as optipustics, there are several styles and some of them include Alpha going along the particle paths automatically. You can then easily save that in such a way that the painted brush Strokes will appear opaque in many programs for example if you use the image as a texture map on a billboard polygon in 3D.

I'm sorry but I didn't understand anything of your explanation, I'll give a practical example: I want to make a drawing with branches, I simply want to export these branches as a PNG with a transparent background, is it possible to do it in a simple way? in other programs you just need to deselect the background, but in pd artist the white background always remains.

There are some options in the custom brush settings that allow drawing RGB plus Alpha. Set the lights to do it but it depends on how many brush Strokes you're going to use. In some cases it's easier to just paint on a solid background color like white or blue and then do a selection of that color and then invert the selection and now you have the branch and the tree selected and you can save this as a PNG

Hi. This is Project dogwaffle. There are a few flavors of it. The top of the line is PD Howler. The author is Dan Ritchie at PDhowler.com

There is also an artist Edition Which is less frequently updated and doesn't do animation.

Thank you!

Well maybe but that's assuming that you actually have layers on each frame of the animation which we don't in this case so you cannot use layers with animation.

thank you!

Not yet to my knowledge and I reported stats to Dan for consideration as a future feature. I needed that too. I found a few load another model or even the same one sometimes it will reset things. So if it's a small enough modlily can just double take the currently selected obj file and reload but it's not ideal either. I also tried by adding a black image to the collection but there is a bug and we have about 20 images and only the first 16 or showing and Dan has not been able to figure out where the bug lies. In my opinion many of these images are similar and you could delete a few that seem to be redundant so you could then add one that's just a plain black image and maybe it will have a similar effect

@@pdhowler Thanks for the information! I was able to replace one image with a black one, works until the changes are in, it does have the same effect as removing the environment. Onward, :)

it is indeed not just one thing. I is a paint program with focus on brushes. It also carries animations (sequences of frames). And has filters with 3d aspects. It does various things for video. You could say it's a mix of a bunch of tools seen in Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. It doesn't do everything, but it has a lot of capabilities. www.thebest3d.com/howler/the-dogwaffle-main-feature-list.html What do you want to create?

how can i buy it .where is the website link?

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. We don't have a huge user base of millions of users, so some antivirus programs might not recognize us in their database and try to block us. But we do not require any complex activation process. It's pretty much a matter of installing the program and running through the steps of the installer and letting the program run afterward to auto-register itself.

@@suhan808 The author is Dan Ritchie at pdhowler.com - pdhowler.com/Cart.htm - you can also find it at www.thebest3d.com/2024 and we offer it on Steam but not this latest version at the moment. Best if you order from Dan directly to help support him. Or at thebest3d. If you like it please tell others in your groups and social medias. We can use all the help we can get for extra exposure. Also provide feedback, what else you'd like to see next, so Dan can prioritize. Perhaps by the end of the year we'll have raytracing added, or dynamic ambient occlusion, shadows,...? I'm thinking it would be good also to have the Wireframe mode not just temporarily but with the option to keep it as the rendered final image, so as to do compositions for techno illustrations, combining shaded and wireframe styles. What do you think?

I have been thinking about the same need for some sort of interactive controls for basic materials. I have seen obj files that don't have any accompanying material files whether it's because the export tool did not provide one or because the person who deployed it online doesn't know it needs to go with some extra file for materials plus potentially image files like jpegs. Sometimes the jpegs are have been referenced by an absolute path from the installation of the software and don't go to the place where you save the obj. There is definitely a lot of good reasons to have extra controls for materials but that is going to be a long road. We are exploring and learning what sort of material properties can be very impactful in the meantime such as Pm and the value for the metalness. But you must have at least some material file and you must identify it in the obj file as that material Library file plus you must use the material at least one of them. I suppose that we could also Define our own default material to use if the obj file did not have any materials defined but it would not easily be useful for regular obj files that I actually use their own material as they should

But I am happy that you asked this question because there is definitely room for improvement and perhaps a need for a standalone viewer with these rendering capabilities especially if it also has material controls

agreed, it is very hard to read for me too. I may be part color blind or old or both but white over light yellow is not a good idea. Can we just invert the selection so it shows as white on dark (black?) or whatever the colors in play are?

@@pdhowler It now uses the complement of the secondary color