After download is provided, will provide feedback :)

I messaged you on Reddit & email - cheers!

Hey! I will be interested in Beta testing! Will provide feedback.

Keep doing what your'e doing man :D

Hey any chance on snagging a beta download? Would love to try this out for some special font patterns and such for signs !

We need a setting to select which color of the background image should be ignored entirely. One could compose multiple different images in one painting if given the option to ignore the background color. Thanks! I should RTFM more often. This was already in here.

P.S.

Also, it would be a nice option to select the next color to use. For example, imagine a black and white image, instead of black, maybe I want green, or light black, or etc etc etc. :)

Been fiddling with this for the past hour or so. Pretty impressive stuff. A couple things i noticed:

In the drawing I just did (which was a heavily graphical image of a persons face - don't know if that makes any difference?) It was just drawing every line 3 or 4 times. Maybe this is something to do with resolution or because i was drawing on a standard wooden sign instead of a large picture frame but completion time would have been a third if it didn't have to do this.

I also found that sometimes hitting f12 is not very responsive, you have to bash it a few times to get it to react, not a huge issue though.

Only other thing i noticed is that it quite often draws over itself, I don't know if that's just a failing of the games accuracy with drawing but obviously drawing over an area that's already been done increases draw time.

Other than these things I think it's pretty awesome!

Keep it up :)

Max

Hey,

Any image I try to load up will show up as an empty gray area after dithering: http://i.imgur.com/dYHjRVt.jpg

Everything seems fine before that point, any ideas?

*I've tried multiple different image formats from different sources

Can i have a new token generated my link expired

Beta slots are now closed. Rustangelo is actively pushing closer to a public release so please check back often. Thanks for the interest everyone!

It doesn't seem to want to select different colors from the pallet whilst painting. I made sure they were selected on the configuration bar (on the 'ready' screen).

New problem. I tried to create an image using this picture:

I go to draw it and define the dimensions the first time then get this window:

I press f12(or the start at the bottom) and it asks me to define the dimensions again.

I get the drawing information prompt

notice the '1 color' when there is clearly two.

heres my 'ready prompt afterwards'

Also had a problem earlier where it wouldn't select colors from the pallet on the side (I made a post above).

I began to draw it and it came out like this after tracing the borders of the draw parameters

The orange color is the one I selected.

Heres some examples I came out with. I only noticed a small drag on the second picture.

**Posted after using the software for 2 hours**

Very well built and responsive so far from what i've experienced. I love how feature filled it is, every small detail just adds to the QoL (especially the image from url!). My only nitpick would be the lack of color varieties, perhaps color blending could be added to achieve more colors? Other than that, maybe an option to auto fill background (could include basic gradients / textures?). Only small issues i've faced have been unresponsive f12 presses (although usually only ~5 presses max).

All in all, the software is very well built, and have not faced any serious issues so far.

-Dara

**edit : also pleased to say that the software also works well with low graphics and stretched resolution! (graphics 1 when canvas isn't high resolution) Which is a great relief. Props.

Also curious as to what you plan on adding in the future? :3

UPDATE: The hotkey issue has been resolved. The F12 hotkey has been changed to F10 to avoid issues with Steam screen capture.

A tutorial popup has been added at app start to assist a first-time user with proper Rustangelo usage. And app tips have been added throughout the drawing process to provide additional information to the user.

I don't have the new version packaged up for download and testing yet. I plan on releasing the new build next week for beta testing.

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

http://imgur.com/3MbNHZy My first attempt

RUSTANGELO UPDATE!

New demo video is now available and a few screenshots (see below).

Many changes have been made so far since the release of the beta last week and I expect to push out a new version for testing tomorrow. The changelog will be posted at that time.

The biggest update is Rustangelo can now paint using 100 colors. It achieves this by utilizing different brush opacities to blend the color with the background.

Fellow beta testers! The new version is ready for download!

Use your originally supplied download link to obtain the latest version (or email me if you lost/deleted it)

changelog (1.0.400 BETA)

- Fixed Always On Top issue when first loading
- Fixed the inconsistent hotkey issue
- Changed the default start/pause hotkey to F10 from F12
- Implemented the ability to change the Control and Cancel hotkeys
- Added the Tutorial screen on application start
- Added in-app tips to help the user with proper application usage
- Implemented painting opacity control to increase color count to 100
- Implemented painting controls area capture to replace palette capture
- Changed all 'drawing' references to 'painting' (except for line drawing)
- Implemented the ability to redither the image after the Palette Manager is closed
- Fixed issue with pausing while drawing a line
- Changed the auto-update canvas feature to click the Save button
- Implemented a default palette fallback after a bad palette capture
- Implemented the Painting Preview feature
- Removed the Line Reduction feature (was confusing and took too long)

So first I want to start of saying thank you for this awesome project and me beeing a part of the beta tester, thats awesome!

I've been testing this programm for like 1 day now and I can tell you some pro's but also some con's about it.

Pros:

- Very detailed:

I mean you can literally screen a website and paint it on to the signs! That is awesome. (That was obviously way over the head but I hope you get what I mean)

- Easy to use:

Personally I had no problems finding out how this programm works even without the tutorial. It feels very comfortable and is just so easy to use.

- The way it paints:

Its really cool seeing that its also using brighter colors such as bright blue and blue blue. The programm itself seems to be smart.

Cons:

- Time:

It takes so much time painting a picture this way. I do understand that the programm needs its time and stuff but it's still a con and should be mentioned.

- Colors:

The things I noticed is that the programm doesn't always uses the correct colors such as when I was painting the "Winter is coming cover" picture and cropped out the middle part with the black wolf & white background. The white background got nearly completly grey and it was trying to paint the background gray.

But all in all this programm is awesome and I'm proud to tell you guys that this is next gen shit.

Sometimes when loading a picture, the pro and free colors do not differ and other times there is a marked difference. Restarting the program didn't seem to have an affect, I will screenshot it the next time it comes up.

Alright, so here I am with my 2nd review.

This time I did "Geralt of Rivia" from "The Witcher" - Series and damn he looks hot.

But I discovered some kind of bug because I had to paint him multiple times.

In the end he did look like this.

But when I painted him the first time it just missed so many colors and left it white like this.

It also has some white spaces left in my end result but I'm more then satisfied.

I don't know what made it happen to leave this white, maybe because I dragged the paintable area into the border of the frame.

Oh and btw. I don't know why it is like this but I had to restart a couple of times because my Internet got interrupted and I got kicked out of the server but when I tried to start the picture again it always told me a diffrent time even with the same size.

And one cool feature could be that it automaticly updates the sign as soon as its done even if you have the "auto-update" function turned off.

But as I said in my first review this again is very detailed and I'm going to keep painting pictures and give you guys feedback.

One thing I have noticed, at first I used to also select the update and cancel in the palette selection portion and whenever it would try to select a shade of red it would cancel out of the painting and spin in circles as if it was still trying to paint. Another thing on sketches and things of that nature (like my profile picture on here) if actually can't draw stuff like that. It just makes a super shaded picture and tries to go deep into detail with it. Only two things I've noticed so far.

i have had a problem today where no matter what picture i choose it turns it into a greyish very light colour.then when it paints it only does it with a light shading of the picture barely viewable here is the the original and what it looks like the app http://imgur.com/a/H2Xzx

The download link previouly linked in the email leads to a download for a folder called: 'MiscSigns'

Question, does how much you are zoomed into the blank white large wood sign? Should I have it at a certain distance?

If you contributed to the beta feedback and would like your complimentary PRO registration, please email me at rustangelo@gmail.com.