Because you've all been waiting so long, I have worked all weekend to bring up an early Sketcher2 test room. It hasn't got all the features that the final version will have, and it's probably orders of magniture more prone to crashing, but never the less: The Sketcher2 Client can be downloaded here: [url]http://www.artgrounds.com/software/Sketcher2Client.jar[/url] The JAR file should cause Java to start on any good system. Should there be a problem, the client can be launched manually. java -jar Sketcher2Client.jar Good luck!

If you get a blank screen, there was problably some error, like an invalid password. This is VERY early stuff, so don't expect it to behave well.

Oops, uploaded the wrong JAR file. Fixing in a moment!

Now if the rest of the cowards can start testing so Merc and I aren't all alone...

blank screen :(

it wouldn't start up, sorry Thor

Please try again. I keep uploading new JAR files as I discover bugs.

it works Thor :D!

lookin very cool so far Thor. Everything seemed to be working alright for me. Can't wait for you to finish it!

Wahahaha awesome 8D

uh, it's opening in winrar >>

Seems more complex. I'm assuming you'll have names on those numbered tabs so people know what they are off first hand. Otherwise, it seems very interesting. Nice job.

fixed! now it's a blank screen >>

oop, nevermind, I fixed it. being in sketcher 1 at the same time doesn't like it.

the networking seems to be broken for me, I get a jumble of random parts of drawings, and no one else is on except I know people are on because They tell me :P

sweet

er. also, it seems to crash on me after a short time and I have to end task it to shut it down >> sorry to keep posting over and over, folks...

Some brushes demonstrated by Kientero: [url]http://www.artgrounds.com/21611/full/[/url]

I can input my name and password and that's as far as I get 8|

holy shit Thor! i love love love it! ^0^!!

How do you even get on it? It keeps opening in winrar

Open winrars options and set it so it doesn't do jar files and then it'll work

Trying this out right now, it works!

yay, hard brushes, good job, Thor! It's very nice that you can setup the brush like u need it! The colors behave additive, right? I would suggest covering, tho...

Sketcher2 rox, Thor! You're great! You can make computer programms, you can sing and draw! You're a real artist! It's not a joke!

I love it, or in the words of my friend: *together in a funny way* "sweeeeeeeetttttttttt duuuuude." yeahhhh...sooo....This is awsome. I hope you are gonna change the number tabs though. Because you know those of us who cant read your mind, well, have no idea what it means.

Love the new tools, Thor, especially now that pressure affects size as well as opacity (LOVE IT!) I was hoping for some sort of revamped interface though, where you could have more than one panel up at the same time, or have the ability to click and drag the panels to wherever you like on the screen. Also, a number input for the color sliders would be great. Maybe even something like the color picker in OC or advanced paintchat. If I'm not sounding needy enough yet, how about a copy tool? (Maybe that's for sketcher 3. Hehehe.) Kick job Thor, I'll be drawing a lot more here, without a doubt!

Thanks for everyone's input. This is not the finished product. The purpose of the testing is to find out what needs changing. A better color picker plus an eyedrop palette are ideas I'm working on. Old Sketcher, known in early 2005 as LivePainter, had a multi-windowed interface, but it took too much screen space, but I'll be glad to look into it again.

I type in my username and password, but it says "Connection Refused"

Fixed.

I've been trying to connect and test it out, but it says connection refused to me as well. And my name and password are correct, I even logged out of AG and logged back in just to make sure. :D

same here

Works perfect over here Thor. Nice job :D

-_- i got a blank screen thor...

oh it cool! ^_^

Looks good. A dedicated eye dropper tool would be nice. Is there any way to grab external colors?

Excellent, Thor~!! :DD I loves it! ♥ *USES IT... ALOT*

After awhile of doodling, the screen went blank. That's my report. :x Otherwise, I'm looking forward to it. I hope it wont take longer to load than current sketcher.

no matter how many times i try it wont work

Also getting a refused connection. Sketcher2's sounding very awesome indeed :D

There's no problem. The room just isn't up.

yeah i get a refused connection.

oh lol srry

connection refused.

Yah...I says connection refused -.-'

Won't let meh get in T.T...

The Sketcher2 daemon isn't running. That is why you cannot connect. Thread closed.