AquaSketch - An Aquascape planning software

[ofridagan]

Hi,
Just wanted to share with you my last project - AquaSketch
It's a nice tool designed to help you with your aquascaping - by making a sketch of your plans.
It's only the first version and it's going to improve, so please tell me what you think and make any comments or suggestions.

[David Moses Heng]

thanks for the tool! Can use it for my new tank.

[richietay]

A very interesting site, thanks for sharing!

[richietay]

Had tried it out and is rather user-friendly. Would be better if there's an option to add hardscape, ie; woods and rocks.

[Shadow]

not bad, does it have drift wood or bog wood? Am I ask to much?

[AquaObsession]

Was going to ask the same things... can it be modified to include rocks? sand? substrate? wood, even fishes?

I think if we can do all these, some of them will be playing with that tool long hours to see if we can get what we want....

[gummynut]

COOL!! Thanks for your tool, certainly will help me in my next project.

[Cacatuoides]

Thumbs up for creating a useful tool for planted aquarist!!

Well done!!

[ofridagan]

Thanks for all the kind words, I need it to get myself to start working on the next version

Main additions to the next version will be:
Rocks and maybe driftwood.
Texture to choose for the substrate.
Some ability to save your work.

Any other ideas?

[David Moses Heng]

i notice that after you have "planted" your plants, there is no way to delete the wrongly plantd ones. you have to do a reset. maybe you can provide an option for them to be either replanted or removed.

[vinz]

Err... can. The green text under the 'pot' map says "ctrl+click on a pot to remove it from the map".

[vinz]

Thanks for all the kind words, I need it to get myself to start working on the next version

Main additions to the next version will be:
Rocks and maybe driftwood.
Texture to choose for the substrate.
Some ability to save your work.

Any other ideas?

Really cool. I've been thinking of a tool like that for some time, but never got round to it. I'm a Flash developer too.

Ideas

1. Substrate:
   • ability to change colour
   • depth
   • slope
2. Views from the front, and sides.
3. Drawing tool to allow users to draw in driftwood and rocks. You will need to allow users to 'send images to front' and 'send images to back' so they can compose the image correctly.

[ofridagan]

Err... can. The green text under the 'pot' map says "ctrl+click on a pot to remove it from the map".

Thanks vinz.

Ideas

1. Substrate:
   • ability to change colour
   • depth
   • slope
2. Views from the front, and sides.
3. Drawing tool to allow users to draw in driftwood and rocks. You will need to allow users to 'send images to front' and 'send images to back' so they can compose the image correctly.

1. How would you create a slope - it sounds pretty complicated.
What do you mean by depth?
2. Thats a good idea.
3. I'm not sure I understand. you mean you want to allow a user to load any image and use it in the aquarium?
What do you mean by 'send images to front/back'? inside the aquarium the order is determined by the distance from the viewer...

[vinz]

1. Slopes
If you are able to calculate the position of the plant images in the '3d' tank view, it should be quite easy for you to figure out how to draw lines to represent a sloped substrate. If you know the angle of the slope, you should be able to calculate how high to move the plant pictures depending on the position from the front or back of the tank.

By depth, I mean the thickness of the substrate. But if you decide not to do slopes, we can just set the tank height minus the thickness of our substrate.

3.
If you have 2 movieclips in the same layer and you overlap them, one would be below the other. To make the bottom one appear on top of the top one, you would right-click the bottom mc and then select Arrange->Bring to Front. Same idea.

Yes, the position of the plant images is based on the distance from the viewer, but technically, the image is still 2D, as long as the co-ordinates of the images remain the same, the 3D effect will be retained. I'm just suggesting you allow the user some flexibility to change the z-order so they can compose a more accurate image with driftwood and rocks.

I agree potentially, the user could make a huge mess and get frustrated.

[ofridagan]

Well, that kind of linear slope can be done - I was thinking about round hills...

[David Moses Heng]

Err... can. The green text under the 'pot' map says "ctrl+click on a pot to remove it from the map".

ok ok thanks. Think i'm getting old already...

[Aeon]

I think MS Paint beats all of these.

[ofridagan]

Hello,
Due to popular demand I decided to make a little update - Rocks and Woods!
(version 2.0 is comming soon...)

AquaSketch

[tcy81]

very nice aquasketch.
hope the update 2.0 will be done soon

[ofridagan]

I have just released version 2.0 of my little flash tool - AquaSketch
Well, it doesn't include all that I hoped (and promised), but it does include one important feature: You can now share your aquascape plannings!
I also added a few more plants, rocks and woods - which I'm going to continue.

Here are two examples of my first tries with the new saving feature:
Aquascape #1 - my small tank
Aquascape #2 - my big tank

Go ahead! experiment your aquascapes and... share.
Enjoy, ...and Let me know if you have any problems...