Black Pillow

Transturner launched posted 09 December 2006 - 08:56

For our programming course at school, we have to make little games in C++. And to spice the games a bit up, we have to use bitmaps instead of simple DrawLines, DrawRects and DrawOvals.

Alright, so If you have found a nice bitmap for your game, you want it to move probably, and it may also be necessary to rotate the image in the game.

That's the point where Transturner comes in. It's an web page that lets you turn your images automagically into one long bitmap over a certain degree and with a specific transparent color.

I wrote this thingy in about two days. It's made in Ruby on Rails (offcourse :p) with the help of the rMagick library to process the images.

After that was done, a friend (the designer of my site) came complaining about the bad layout of my webapp, so he designed a very sleek design for it. And I put it into a nice simple css file.

So how does this app works. Well let's see...

First you have to make an image with the transparency color already in it, for example:

Then if you put the transparency color to #ff00ff and set an degree of 60, you get this result:

Ow, I almost forgot the link, here it is:
http://pieterhoste.be/Transturner/