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The HM3 Alpha applet has been updated again. The pattern buttons now work, and the problem where you couldn't manually drag items more than halfway to the left and down has been fixed.
You might need to hit REFRESH in your browser to reload the most current version of the applet if you've been there recently.
Edited To Add: Also, I added a "LegwearMaleBriefs" set of starter items so your guys don't have to be nekkid so much. More of those to come, obviously.
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I'd like to have a LOT more patterns in HeroMachine 3 than the minis had, to the point that you'll have a set of basic clothing options in the various slots that you can then turn into chainmail or full of lightning or Scottish tartan or whatever. Here's the list I have so far, let me know any additions or deletions you might have:
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(Last panel from “Dynamo 5″, number 20, ©2009, Jay Faerber and Mahmud Asrar. Which you should probably buy just for this entire War Chest sequence, it's a hoot.)
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Just a quickie update, the HM3 Alpha "Save as JPG" feature now saves the figure and not just its left leg. Oops.
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I've updated the HeroMachine 3 Alpha with the following changes:
More on all of this after the jump.
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Runt82 and I have finished his prize for winning Caption Contest 48:
Apparently there is some sort of impending athletic competition coming up and some folks like Mark Shute and Runt82 have strong feelings on the matter. Not that these figures are in any way representative of popular, and copyrighted, college mascots or anything. No sir.
Thanks to Runt82 for working with me on this one, it was fun!
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(From “Dynamo 5″, number 20, ©2009, Jay Faerber and Mahmud Asrar.)
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Most of the time, when you're drawing a comic you want to master page layout as I've discussed before but also to master the position of the characters within a panel as well. In other words, you want to make sure two people standing in a room really look like they're both standing in the same room at the same time.
But if you're Rob Liefeld, you just draw each figure as if it were in a stand-along pinup and say to hell with making them relate, as you can see here:
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With that rather cryptic and Star-Trekkie-like headline, I am happy to announced that the early test version of the upcoming HeroMachine 3 is now available! Please note all of the caveats and disclaimers and warnings of incompleteness at the top of the page -- this is a very, very early look at the program, there are lots or more items and features yet to be implemented. Only about half the slots even have any items in them.
So yes, there will be eyes and noses and mouths and pants and gloves and boots and all that other stuff, in time.
Regardless, that page will always have the most up-to-date version of the test program I have.
What I'm looking for at this point is very broad feedback, things like how you feel the multiple item functionality works; whether or not the little toolbars in the preview of each item makes sense and has the buttons you want on it; does the organization of the items in the various slots work; etc. I'm fully aware that there are (not to get too technical) "a crapload" of features that while mostly working are still quite buggy, like the item selection getting hosed up if you mouse out of the menu area and scaling "all items" only works horizontally, that kind of thing.
Anyway, please make any suggestions, observations, complaints, requests (either items or features), or quips you like in the comments to this post. Whenever I launch an update I'll make a new entry for it and we can go from there.
Thanks already for all the great feedback I've received so far; with your help this program will absolutely kick ass!
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(From the delightfully funny "Dynamo 5", number 20, ©2009, Jay Faerber and Mahmud Asrar.)
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Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
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