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  KToon: 2D Animation Toolkit
Graphics and Art Posted by Gustavo González on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @09:01
from the crazy-cartoons dept.
KToon, is a new 2D animation toolkit created by Toonka Films and now made available as a free GPL'ed option to the 2D animation industry. KToon has been developed using OpenGL from the Qt library and follows the same interface style of commercial products such as Macromedia Flash (TM) and ToonBoom (TM). Currently KToon is still in beta and only has 2 modules (Illustration and Animation), but it already allows one to export animations to the SWF format. Screenshots are available. Developers and testers are welcome!


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seems like a nice missing piece for linux
by Maarten on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @11:24
if the flash export is good enough, it could help alot with drawing designers (no pun intended) to the opensource desktop
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KToon?
by standsolid on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @12:01
Man. I wonder why they didn't go with the obvious "kartoon"
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SVG export
by GML on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @12:01
is ktoon include a svg export ?
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Problems with the source distribution
by manyoso on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @14:07
First, this looks very cool and it is great that you are using KDE/Qt technology for this...

But you need to alter your source distribution by taking out the generated Makefiles and including the top-level ktoon.pro which can be found in your svn repository. Finally, alter you INSTALL to run 'qmake && make' or it won't work.

Other than that, I can't wait to try this out.
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similar to ... ?
by Aaron J. Seigo on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @14:23
looking at the screenshots i see several widgets that scream "re-use me to make a non-linear video editor!" ;)

i'm highly impressed by how the screenshots look. i would download it and give it a whirl, but i'm no artist. i'll have to get some of my artist friends to look at it though ...

sweet stuff... mad props to Toonka Films!
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Other contenders
by UglyMike on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @15:29
Two other packages in the same category (but not free...) are:

Moho (http://www.lostmarble.com)
Vector oriented, SWF export, bones,...
Windows,Mac & Linux version available
99$ and you get all platforms
slightly limited demo available
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PlasticAnimationPaper (http://plasticanimationpaper.dk/)
virtual lightbox ( 'traditional' animation package )
Windows & Linux
Expensive (esp in relation to Moho)
Limited demo available
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Question for KOffice or Open Office developers
by N. Geisinger on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @16:02
This is an extremely nice addition to the multimedia linux suite. Today, we have:

* Blender3d for 3d work
* Rosegarden with lilypond (beautiful music production) for music composition
* Audacity for sound recording and editing
* Ogg and Theora formats for sound and video
* Fluendo's Flumotion media server which is GPL for Ogg and Theora streaming
* Bittorent for sharing large media files
* Gimp (interface is improving) for pixel based graphics
* Inkscape (extremely nice for "fake" artists like me) for vector based graphics
* Scribus along with improvements in KPDF for professional desktop publishing
* Kile for Tex documents (still evolving)
* Mediawiki (for collaborative multimedia content production - counterintutitive perhaps, but very useful in my company)

And now specialized niches like cartoon animatation are being filled in. Is there anything missing? I am admittedly not a professional, but I find most of these applications (with the exception of the gimp and blender3d) quite intuitive to use and feature complete for my needs. There was recently an article about making a multimedia office suite and improving interoperability between the different open source applications. Given how expensive commercial counterparts are, such an office suite (especially if integrated with OpenOffice or KOffice) could draw a significant number of users to the Linux desktop.

Out of curiousity, are there any KOffice developers on the forum? Does anyone know if there are plans in the future to integrate the above suite into KOffice or embed them in the OASIS format? Such integration would put KOffice far ahead of its competitors and radically increase the attractiveness of KDE. It's entirely possible too that the maintainers of each of the above projects would themselves work to support the integration given the benefits that they would reap from the network effects of application integration.

It might evolve along this path slowly on its own anyway, but a little effort towards interoperability might make both KOffice and Open Office (with 15 integrated applications and one multimedia OASIS format that could embed Ogg, Lilypond, Theora, SVG, Tex, etc.) significantly superior to Microsoft Office (with its five traditional applications). The office application space has been static for so long ...
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A fine free software contribution.
by J.B. Nicholson-Owens on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @16:45
Thanks very much, this is a great contribution to the free software community. I look forward to trying this out.
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Documentation?
by m. on Friday 18/Feb/2005, @17:17
Did anyone found documentation? Download area for docs is empty :(
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That's odd
by Hans Oischinger on Saturday 19/Feb/2005, @03:42
two days ago I checked in the source code of Kast into kdeplayground multimiedia. It's supposed to do nearly the same for SVG and maybe later also flash.

It's hard to decide what to do now. On the one hand Kast is still far away from the functionality KToon has to offer (right now only the renderer works good enough to show it)... on the other hand Kast is supposed to be my diploma thesis, therefore I can't just stop, throw away all the work and start contributing to the more advanced project...

I guess I'll have a thorough look at this piece of software today.
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Any translation volunteers?
by fprog26 on Saturday 19/Feb/2005, @17:49
I saw that the application was translated from English to Spanish...

Are there any translation volunteers to port this to other languages?

Here's the XML file in question:
http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/ktoon/ktoon/src/trans/ktoon_es.ts?rev=2&view=markup

Here's the BerliOS project:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktoon/

Contact info:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/memberlist.php?group_id=2960

The project use SubVersion.

Sincerely yours,

Fred.
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KTOON Can be used to Create KDE presentation!
by fast on Sunday 20/Feb/2005, @16:36
I wish that KToon be used to create dynamic KDE Presentations and Introcution, like Windows XP's flash introduction to XP's features.
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Error
by MaBu on Saturday 05/Mar/2005, @22:47
I unzipped Ktoon and when I run it I get an error:
Unable to resolve GL/GLX symbols - please check your GL library installation.

But if I run glxinfo I get an info:

[root@localhost ktoon]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.4 Mesa 5.0.2)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,
GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax,
GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle,
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once,
GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_NV_blend_square,
GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture,
GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

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0x29 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
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V 0.8 - I can't export
by drew Roberts on Tuesday 23/May/2006, @14:14
I have version 0.8 installed and I can't export.

When I try, it asks me to choose the format before export. The problem is that I can't see where to choose a format. (Putting the "right" extension on the filename does not work for me.)

Has anyone solved this in V 0.8?

all the best,

drew
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