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[AltSoftLab]

Not actual anymore

[cl9-2]

Hello,

Do you have precompiled web player demos and/or Android APK’s?

Is the virtual file system thread safe?

Do you provide source code? I did not see any indication of source files in the asset store link.

Thank you

[bjornrun]

It seems to contain a lot of graphic packages. If the GUI packages are good enough it would be very interesting.
I would like to see workflow examples about developing on Unity. Benefits of developing a native app and then port it to mobile.
What about performance?
How well is it integrated with Unity? Do it support all platforms that Unity supports?

Thanks!

[yoonitee]

That looks cool. Is there some documentation on the API?

[yoonitee]

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Hi, yoonitee!

AltSketch API is similar to System.Drawing API. In most cases it just equals to it. Demo with many examples also provided. And we provide additional assistance here or on AltSofLab site forum.

Behind the scenes does it call Windows GDI for Windows games, and Android canvas graphics API for Android games etc. or is all the rendering done within AltSketch. Just want to know as I think the former would be faster. BTW I think it looks very useful.

[yoonitee]

@AltSoftLab

Hi Unity community!

AltSoftLab Team is pleased to present our .NET AltSketch Vector Graphics Library

AltSketch on Asset Store (don’t forget to read README.txt doc of package to solve integration tasks):

1. Indie License (for Indie developers only) - https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/20601
2. Pro License (for Professional developers and Commercial Organizations; includes source code of AltSketch Extensions) - https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/20849
   NOTE: AltSketch Unity SDK contains full source code of AltSketch Backend & Integration and not depends on any Unity release version. AltSketch Asset requirements (“Unity 4.5 or higher”) set by Asset Store Administrators, but AltSketch hasn’t such requirements in real.

As we can’t release AltSketch SDK interesting LGPL Extensions and in Asset Store, it available for download in Download area on the project main site.

AltSketch Description:

AltSketch is a pure C# CLS compliant 100% managed, without unsafe blocks Vector Graphics Library with Software and Hardware Render Backends for Games, Scientific Applications & other uses of Computer Graphics. All core functionality collected in one lightweight library AltSketch.dll for Microsoft .NET Framework or Mono (including Silverlight / Moonlight). It depends only on System, System.Data & System.Xml assemblies (.NET Framework 2.0).

AltSketch has System.Drawing like program interface and Software & Hardware Render Backends (solid and texure AA visual data triangulation), contains a subsystem AltNETType - port of wonderful font rendering library Freetype and subsystem AltNETImage for Image manipulations (loading, saving, transformations).

As AltSketch has several integrations with most popular GUI systems and Mobile platforms, you can develop and test a drawing part of your 3D application/game as independent program, and then easy integrate it into your main solution. Now you can draw Graphics in 3D with Brushes and Pens like you do it with any drawing library. It is flexible and useful development method in case of main project bulking and test complexity, or useful for team development process. Now you can develop graphics part of your Mobile applications without using an emulator as stand-alone application, only running on Mobile devices (or Emulator) for final tests.

AltSketch has Virtual File System support with Zip containers for resources loading. All AltSketch functionality & extensions works via VirtualFS and all resources can be loaded as from real file system, so from Zip containers (from files or memory streams).

AltSketch SDK includes wide variety of open source extensions: ported to AltSketch popular libraries (GUI, Plot, GIS, Computer Science, Physics, Graphics etc.):

• SVG.NET
• NPlot
• OxyPlot
• PieChart
• ZedGraph
• MigraDoc
• PDFsharp
• GMap.NET
• HTML Renderer
• Box2D
• Farseer Physics
• AForge.NET
• Accord. NET
• Gwen GUI
• Miyagi GUI
• CeGui
• etc.

AltSketch SDK includes many Integration Demos with a wide variety GUI-s & frameworks (all Integrations & HW Render Backends are open sourced, so you can easily adapt it to your applications or improve it if you need):

Unity Game Engine
Windows Phone
Android
iOS
Silverlight / Moonlight
XNA / MonoGame
OGRE 3D Engine
Axiom 3D Engine
NeoAxis 3D Engine
Irrlicht 3D Engine
OpenTK / AltOpenTK
SdlDotNet / AltSdlDotNet
SharpDX
Windows Forms (throw System.Drawing, OpenGL, DirectX, DirectDraw)
WPF (throw System.Windows.Media, OpenGL, DirectX, DirectDraw)
GTK (throw Gtk.Image, OpenGL)
Qt: Qyoto & Qt4Dotnet​ (throw Qt.Image, OpenGL)
wxWidgets (throw wxWidgets.Image)

Only the fist application start may take some seconds because AltSketchDemo finding system fonts. This information cached and next starts became more faster

AltSketch Demo contains examples of AltSketch in different ways of uses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3dUnXH7tw

AltSketch Unity Vector Text Double Path Transform

AltSketch Unity QuickFont

AltSketch Unity SVG Transformations

AltSketch Unity OxyPlot

AltSketch Unity Geometry Polar Transform

AltSketch Unity GMap.NET Interactive

AltSketch Unity Gwen Skinned

AltSketch Unity HTML Renderer

AltSketch Unity Geometry Bilinear and Perspective Transform

AltSketch Unity Pie Chart

AltSketch Unity MigraDoc

AltSketch Unity PDFsharp

AltSketch Unity AltNETType

AltSketch Unity Geometry Boolean Operations

AltSketch Unity NPlot

AltSketch Unity Accord.NET

AltSketch Unity AForge

AltSketch Unity RenderBox

AltSketch Unity Box2D

AltSketch Unity Farseer Physics

Johnny,
AltSoftLab Team

Hi, does it work with Windows Metro (Windows Store apps)? I have written a unity program which uses Windows.Drawing.dll and want it to run on Metro too. (Also PC, Mac, IOS and Android) Could AltSketch do this?

[yoonitee]

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Hi yoonitee,

Sorry for delay. For now we have different assemblies for WinPhone, iOS, Android, PC, Silverlight. But on Unity Asset Store the only one version is available (for PC). We are working on AltSketch new features and on AltSketch Portable assembly (PCL). It’s coming soon.

Bests!

I don’t think I understand. On the asset store it says it is multi-platform. Is this not correct?

[eco_bach]

I’m curious about your Unity implementation. Specifically I am trying to do motion detection within Unity from a webcam stream. I know the AForge framework has a built in motion detector class.

Will AltSketch allow this? Are there any specific tutorials?

[FraunhoferIGD]

I bought AltSketchPro for Unity. In the readme file of the Awsomium Demo it says: Link Awesomium.Core to Alt.Sketch.Demo project. Where can i download or find this file? Will Awsomium work with Unity under Android?

[FraunhoferIGD]

The Store page says: multiplatform supported! Why don´t you even know if Awsomium runs with Unity under Android?

[yastrebovks]

Hi!
I need to draw grpah independently of Viewport Rect of my Camera. I want to do it with Unity_RenderTexture, but can’t deal with it. Help me in this problem!
Thanks in advance.

[ioFlow]

Hi Altsketch dudes,

I’m thinking of mucking around with some ideas I’ve had for doing a custom terrain solution in unity…

If I had an SVG map of a large region and an array of terrain patches (just normal meshes not unity terrain), would it be easy with Altsketch to get each terrain patch to use a different part of the same SVG for their textures?

[Jimww]

Hi, I’m just poking around at graphics libraries and noticed the AltSoftLab website is down and that there has been no activity for a few months. Is this product being supported?

[Jimww]

I’m sorry to hear this. Do post back when you find a workaround to your support issues.

[Loadus]

Hey guys,

With the christmas holidays and some time to spare, I decided to dive into AltSDK. Can you provide a short code example that sets up AltSketch with a fullscreen texture and draws something simple on it like a line, circle, image. Without any GUI stuff, just a bitmap in memory and AltSketch drawing on it so I’ll get the understanding of what the structure of the code flow is.

There is a good amount of examples on the forums and within the SDK, but I can’t make heads or tails of it without a stripped-down example.

I have a test scene that has AltSketchPaint loaded and ready, but I have no idea what to write inside the OnPaint().

Cheers!