Sorry, guys, I kept you waiting, wasn't online and at my PC the last days.
Was stuck in trash and dust, had some days off house, needed to clean up the house. So many boxes with old stuff everywhere standing in our ways since we moved in 3 years(!) ago.
When I try to use some of these settings, such as the above, it locks up Icon Set-Builder pretty hard. So some of these settings I don't even try. There's others, as I come across them I'll post here. Seems anything I'm trying to do right now is causing it to do a slow motion freeze. Trying to figure out (trouble shoot) another issue at the moment.
Will add some logging and do profiling to check what's slow. Some effects work per pixel, which means I'm iterating through the whole grid (i.e. 128x128 = 16384 pixels). These are bound to be slow... but not THAT slow it seems to FREEZE, that's really bad! "Shadow" (the more blur the badder) and "Pseudo 3D" are for sure candidates I have to optimize.
Okay, maybe things have changed on me since .99. You'll have to tell me if this is the way it's supposed to be working now vrooden.
When I originally did the mirrored series, I had:
Version 0.9.9
Icon Set: Mirror Hor. 88
Text Icon: 2-Line, spacing -8
Mask: cutbottom50percblurred (it was this setting that I used to fade the mirrored object from the bottom of the icon)
Version 1.0.2, If I try those similar settings, the Mask is applied directly to the middle of the two objects.. See attached for example. Hope this makes sense without me having to go into too much detail.
And before you tell me to use the Fade Out setting under Rotate Mirror, I use Mask instead so that I can adjust the gradient of the fade to my liking.
Thanks for the clarification, helped a lot.
Looks like I "broke" this from 0.9.9 to 0.9.10... well kinda... Basically for whatever reason "Apply Mask" I moved up in the processing chain, so "Mirror" now is applied _AFTER_ masking.
EDIT: Well... since you can apply fade out to mirror, I think there is no need to apply a mask after mirroring. That order seems quite appropriate.
That many effects and adjustments to apply, I had to make some decisions in which order they are applied. Taking a quick glance at code and tool, I saw there are some more things. Like: you cannot apply shadow to "Label over Icon"-text, only the icon itself is affected.
I will try to create an overview/graph (even for myself) in which order what effect/adjustment is applied.
Next it seems I have to find an easy way one could influence in some extend the order.
Also I tried to use the Fade Out setting, but even a setting of 1 makes my mirror disappear.
Easy one: "0" doen't mean "no fade out", but "use full height", whereas "1" fades out only 1 pixel height (which looks like it disappeared). Simply increase to like 8px and more and you'll see the fade out.
BTW, this is an awesome program, now that I am figuring it out more!!!
Added to my ToDo-list: "write some documentation". Or at least "add tooltip-help to all controls".