Support for pen tablets?

[Tanja]

i use a graphic tablet for drawing and painting. thats really cool, because like with a real pencil the stroke width changes when i press the pen a little bit harder on my "paper".
i wonder if such a device could be supported by sgdk? it's only a suggestion, i don't know if that's a lot of work to implement...
it's just that it would be a relief for my work.

[durnurd]

The current version of the graphics editor for SGDK2 isn't sophisticated enough to be able to handle something like that.  I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to detect something like that, but there are programs made specifically for drawing with pen tablets which can easily export to an image type that SGDK2 can import, like Gimp, Photoshop, and Painter 2.0.

However, since the development "team" is only one person really, and he doesn't own a pen tablet, testing would be difficult, and since most people who own pen tablets have other graphics programs which are much more advanced, I don't think it's going to be a high priority.

[Tanja]

true, true.
it's right, i wanna use photoshop to paint my images. but i tried the ingame editor for placeholder graphics and must say, its a very mighty tool. i enjoy escpially the offet/wrap and flip tools, and the very helpful slider for transparency (included the options overlay or copy). it is indeed possible to create very good graphics with the editor. that surprised me positively very much. it would be rather cool if the support for a graphic tablet were given, but i understand your sayings and its totally okay to me.

then i must ask the next suggestion/question: will there be available more layers? graphic tablet support and the existence of several layers are at this time the only advantages of photoshop to me.

[bluemonkmn]

My suggestion for layers in SGDK2 is to put each "layer" of a graphic in a separate cell/frame because then you can combine multiple frames into a single tile in the TileSet editor (or a single image in the Sprite editor).  If you need help to see how this is possible, I could describe it.  The short description: set the "Repeat Count" to 0 in order to merge a frame with the next frame.

[Tanja]

i see, i used this feature already. thats a good feature, but in this case layers would ease painting sometimes. i will learn to live without it