SynthMaker

Background generator

Archive · 2011 9 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

MyCo ·

Hi,

Here is a new tool, for lazy guys like me. It's a background image generator for simple projects, where you don't want to create a whole GUI-Background. The background looks like brushed Metal when you use grayscale colors. I haven't tested other color schemes yet, but other materials could be possible as well.

Have fun!

trogluddite ·

MyCo wrote: The background looks like brushed Metal when you use grayscale colors

Can't beat a lovely fine grained bit of hardwood...

...that's a really cool gadget, thanks. 🙂

DigitalWhiteByte ·

random 🙂 thanks!

philter5 ·

thx a lot myco, very cool 😀

mwvdlee ·

Nice effect! It reminded me of something I did years ago which looked similar and got me thinking. With the bitmap scaling in S|M, you should be able to do the same using a 2-pixel wide image with noise.

AndydeMaro ·

Hello is great work

Update: Added Option To Save To Bitmap (png)

Andy

2nvu ·

This is a Superb little Tool ' the amount of times i have tried to look for something that sits nicely in the back ground , its the perfect tool to start the first layer ' of GUI work,,,, Thank you very much for your OSM ,,, Jamie 😀

mwvdlee ·

Wanted to try this with a bitmap-stetching method. Probably wasted over half an hour on this, but it works. There seems to be a weird issue in rendering the bitmap, requiring the area of the bitmap to be reduced in width by 1 pixel; not the bitmap itself, just the (A) area. Didn't test performance, but since the graphics hardware is doing most of the heavy lifting, it should be quite fast. The effects could become much prettier (and wierder), but the basic concept is clear.

dman ·

thanks

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