Is there a Windows server with Photoshop running that process all these templates? It just happens too quickly. How did they achieve that?
I've been looking for the answer for quite a long time and didn't find anything worthy.
A way something like this would be done would be to have an overlay template that you'd place your image under and then all of the shading and such would would go on top of it. Then it's just a mater of rotating and skewing the angle of the picture underneath the overlay to get the right perspective. This can be done programmatically in a language of your choice like PHP, Python, C#, etc.
I believe what you're describing may be achieved using the Adobe Photoshop API. Click on try demo and take a look at the various options, including the Smart Object demo.
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How to best reproduce the closing activity ring animation from watchOS 4 on iOS? Im particularly interested in the rotating sparkling effect.
Here a still frame of the animation I'm talking about:
and here is a video of it.
Is it possible to implement something like this with Core Animation?
Here at the university of science in zürich in the usability lab, we use:
sketch or illustrator or designer.gravit.io for designing the svg sketches.
than we import it in after effects or in Haiku.ai for animating
and export it as .json for airbnbs animations library Bodymovin or also known as Lottie. Therefor are libraries for web, android and ios available.
The advantage of this solution over #bryanjclark "exported it as a series of images" is that the animation is sharp in every resolution (svg), it is only one .json file and you have the full control over its speed and frames.
Otherwise if you really want to do it with code only, give a look at this Article, done with OpenGL ES2.0.
Or with the AnimationCore example in this SO Answer.
I’m nearly-certain that is a pre-rendered animation, not something generated on-device. (If it is generated on-device, it’s not something you’d have API access).
I’d bet that:
a designer worked it up in a tool like AfterEffects,
exported it as a series of images,
then the developers implemented it using something like WKImageAnimatable
You can see other developers using WKImageAnimatable to build gorgeous animations in their WatchKit apps - for example, Cultured Code’s app Things (watch the video there!) has some really terrific little animation flourishes that (almost-definitely) use WKImageAnimatable under-the-hood!
I am developing an interactive CD most of my life I wrote console applications writing something mostly graphical is akward for me.
So here is my approach :
I am drawing on the canavas using shapes and images the left and top position are stored in a file. Is there any easier approach ? I thought using shapes objects would simplify my work what do you guys think ?
Any examples are welcome.
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The proper way is to write an OnPaint handler (that is, listening to the WM_PAINT message) and drawing using the GDI.
Here are a couple of simple examples:
Moving triangles
Bouncing ball
Drawing by moving controls is very awkward.
Since you didn't specify a any version, I assume you're not wasting your time with an ancient Delphi, so maybe you should also take a look at FireMonkey.
That also opens the door to having your interactive stuff work on other platforms..
I recommend the Delphi GDI+ Library which I have used with success. It's a wrapper around GDI+ which takes alot of the pain out of it.
I have got one image like this
to only black and white colored image.
And I come across this ImageMagick resource
Does this can be used to generate black and white image from the above given image?
Does it is good to use this one?
If it is good one then does there is any documentation or tutorial on "How to use?".
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No third party api is required for doing this as apple's COREIMAGE.FRAMEWORK is the best for doing what I want to do. It's filters are working like charm :)
Thanks for the suggestion :)
I use this image filter. And it is great in speed and provides great output :)
Why would you want to use imageMagick instead of the standard Core Image to produce black and White images? I haven't used it before, but I doubt it's gonna give a much better performance than the native framework when it's just about creating a filter.
Since iOS 6 you have it really easy, have a look: Core Image filters, specially to CIColorMonochrome, which is the one you may be interested in.
If you're playing with images in your app, this is definitely worth checking: Core Image Programming Guide
If my designer gives me a 960x640px image of what the screen should look like, as well as all of the individual elements as images or text, is there a way to lay out the images and text on the iPhone/iPad screen without doing it manually through code? The way I'm doing it now is a series of trial and error, trying to guess the position of each element.
By the way, the types of layouts I'm trying to do are simple static layouts for stuff like Menus and High Scores lists, etc.
You should try one of the editing tools: LevelHelper, CocoShop and CocosBuilder. The problem will be the output format, make sure that not only the editing part works to your specification but that you can actually use just the snippet of code you need to plug it into your code.
Do you have an image-editing software like Photoshop or GIMP? How about opening the 960x640px image with any such software, then hovering your mouse over the center of each element for its coordinates, and then finally pumping these values into your code?
In my opinion, this is at least better and way faster than trial and error:)
If you want to measure position of graphic elements. You can try a commercial called xscope. The trail version can be downloaded form their official website. It is the best tool I ever seen to measure distance, color(like, it can copy color measured directly to [UIColor ...] format), etc. If you want something freeware, I would like to recommend markman, which is a Chinese software, it's built on adobe air. All elements/button are graphic, so you don't need to read chinese to use it..
You can try to use some open source editor and write your exporter. For example I am using blender as a level editor for the game I am working on. It has a nice python API that can be used to export all the information you need.
I need to animate some vector icons smoothly moving about a 2d map. I have time-lat/lng pairs forming tracks. Down the road I would really like to be able to convey various GIS data like topography and roads on the map along with my smoothly animated icons.
Any suggestions on what to use? I find things like Quantum GIS but it seems geared to generating static maps. I've tried messing around with KML but I cannot find any way to make things move smoothly: marker icons clearly bounce along the waypoints even when I space them very closely.
EDIT: clarified I'm interested in a desktop widget
Animation options are limited in GIS as far as I am aware.
ESRI's ArcObjects could be used to create animations - see this chapter in the online help:
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=An_overview_of_animation
and these examples (however none have vectors moving around):
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Sample_animation_videos
ESRI software is expensive to purchase, and users would also need the software if you wanted to provide more than an exported video.
You are probably best working with WPF (is this widget for Windows?), Silverlight, or Flash. ESRI have a Silverlight example here:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/showcase/GIS_Silverlight.aspx
There is also the following collection of WPF classes for the OpenSource SharpMap:
http://wpfsharpmapcontrols.codeplex.com/
However it seems very much in beta at this stage.
Alternatively it may be easier to use GIS software solely to provide a background image, and do all the animation elsewhere.
I would say, try this animation code for Google Earth; however, try emailing the osgeo or qgis userlists and they'll guide you