Paint.NET

The plugin distorts an image based on the light values of the mask. This is useful for mapping images to other surfaces.

Before


After!!!


example2: Before


example2: after i mapped the paint to the brick using displacement and added some shadow highlights



follow the this link for more on displacement (highly recommended)
http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/displacement/
^^Don't miss the video^^ it's been here from the start. high rez downloads to the right of the stream
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=24598&p=181513#p181513
^^Also read Drew's Paint.NET version!!^^ product below
(Japanese) http://paintnet.web.fc2.com/plugin/okikae/admask.htm



This plugin is based off the the AlphaMaskImport plugin.
Credits
pleska: File Handling
Illnab1024: Alpha Mask
MadJik: Coding help (lots of it)
Bleek II: Displacement

V1.0
release
V1.1
UI:
- smaller form
- reset buttons
- number boxes
V1.1.1
-UI issue fixed
V1.1.1.1
-fixed 1 off bug
V1.2.0.0
-Added neutral value control
v1.2.1.0
-fixed backwards neutral value
-UI update
-faster & cleaner displacement code
v1.3.0.0
-edge controls
v1.3.0.1
-UI font colors weren't the same on every system
v1.4.1.1
-fixxed dumb issues in 1.4.0.*
-You can now clip with the alpha vaules of masks

Also see:
My gallery: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=23561
ScreenPixel(a not very useful plug in): viewtopic.php?f=16&t=23620
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Edit by Ash:
Seems people usually don't read all the way to page3.
My easy to understand tips about this useful plugin.

Do you have any screenshots?

I do!! Also, I recommend everyone of you to watch the video I linked to.

this is simply amazing great job bleek

This is BRILLIANT. Photoshop's displacement tool isn't even half this easy.

Great job!

GUI needs some work. Reset buttons would be awesome. Also, I'm a fan of pixel based distortion as opposed to the current % based distortion.

Otherwise, nice job.

As far as function goes, this is my new favorite plugin.

Good points. This was the first time I used the windows form builder in VS 2008. I'm use to text based c++ programing. About the % based distortion, it really works best that way. I'll explain. The plugin reads each of the map's pixel luminosity values ranging from 0 to 255. The closer that value is to 0 the more it moves it in one direction and closer to 255 it is the more it moves it to the other direction, 127 is neutral. At 100% it moves each pixel the range value that's on the map but that's a bit of over kill in most cases so % works well to tune the process. However, in most cases I agree, I like to know how many pixels things are moving by. You can think of it as a range in this case 100% = -128 to 128, 50% = 64 to 64, and so on... The source code is there if you would like a better UI, I am lazy. I will post any updates to the plugin that others make and add you to the credits.

I love it. Bless you, child! Bless you!

Nice, thank you!

This should take up much less screen.

If that's a complied plugin, please post! However I believe that's an image edit, right? The reason those bar are so large is because I didn't want to spend the time figuring out how to get those nice input boxes next to the bars in windows form builder. So to give the user more control... I made them huge!... yeah I'm lazy, also I have my laptop screen here set at 1600x1050 so it's not to bad for me.

You are correct
Image editing is more my thing.
I believe either you or someone else would be much better at doing this UI

You should use IndirectUI...

IndirectUI does not support a "Browse" button.

I am regarding the sliders issue he was refering to. Can you not use IndirectUI and regular UI at the same time in a plugin?

No, you can not.