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Show HN: Onion Packer – An open source Textures and Images organizer

32 points by Mikepicker 10y ago

barbaricmelons 10y ago
Sometimes it's just easier to do a quick search and modify the result instead of keeping a huge texture library available constantly. But keeping an inventory of scratch/bump maps to use on a variety of projects is actually something I've been looking into...then wham, here it is. Anybody have experience with it?
- Mikepicker 10y ago
  Hi and thanks for your comment. When designing Onion Packer we focused on the designer need of: - quickly finding the right texture / image - have a fast way to preview it on a 3D model You mentioned bumps, which is something that is in our roadmap (3D preview, together with diffuse textures). We are looking for precious feedbacks and testers, since we are in the initial phase. If you have some good suggestions it is very easy that it will be considered. Onion Packer wants to take the direction that its users suggest it to go :) Give it a try, it's totally free.
galfarragem 10y ago
It would be much more interesting as kind of a plugin to Pinterest than as a standalone app.
- Mikepicker 10y ago
  Hi, thanks for your feedback. I didn't know that Pinterest allows developers to create their own plugins. Could you kindly describe me how Onion Packer could take advantage of it? Thanks :)
  - galfarragem 10y ago
    AFAIK it does: https://developers.pinterest.com/ https://developers.pinterest.com/ As an housing architect, Pinterest simplified a lot my workflow by keeping all images in the same place (it allows private boards and full resolution). There is plenty of room to improve, their tools are not designed for professionals. You could build on top of that.
    - Mikepicker 10y ago
      Thanks so much, we are already discussing what can be done :)
RubyPinch 10y ago
This doesn't do texture packing, does it? The name might be a slight bit confusing
- Mikepicker 10y ago
  Nope, we put "packer" in it because we liked the sound :)
  - jordanwallwork 10y ago
    Yeah that's very confusing then
- wavewash 10y ago
  Exactly what I thought when I saw the name. I was confused.
- cdhanna 10y ago
  Yeah, I thought it was a tool for packing textures into a single image.
kowdermeister 10y ago
A link to the Github page would be nice.
- Mikepicker 10y ago
  Thanks! We'll add a link on the website
Zekio 10y ago
Why use "rar" rather than "zip" for the download

32 points by Mikepicker 10y ago

Sometimes it's just easier to do a quick search and modify the result instead of keeping a huge texture library available constantly. But keeping an inventory of scratch/bump maps to use on a variety of projects is actually something I've been looking into...then wham, here it is. Anybody have experience with it?

Mikepicker 10y ago
Hi and thanks for your comment. When designing Onion Packer we focused on the designer need of: - quickly finding the right texture / image - have a fast way to preview it on a 3D model You mentioned bumps, which is something that is in our roadmap (3D preview, together with diffuse textures). We are looking for precious feedbacks and testers, since we are in the initial phase. If you have some good suggestions it is very easy that it will be considered. Onion Packer wants to take the direction that its users suggest it to go :) Give it a try, it's totally free.

galfarragem 10y ago

It would be much more interesting as kind of a plugin to Pinterest than as a standalone app.

Mikepicker 10y ago
Hi, thanks for your feedback. I didn't know that Pinterest allows developers to create their own plugins. Could you kindly describe me how Onion Packer could take advantage of it? Thanks :)
- galfarragem 10y ago
  AFAIK it does: https://developers.pinterest.com/ https://developers.pinterest.com/ As an housing architect, Pinterest simplified a lot my workflow by keeping all images in the same place (it allows private boards and full resolution). There is plenty of room to improve, their tools are not designed for professionals. You could build on top of that.
  - Mikepicker 10y ago
    Thanks so much, we are already discussing what can be done :)

RubyPinch 10y ago

This doesn't do texture packing, does it? The name might be a slight bit confusing

Mikepicker 10y ago
Nope, we put "packer" in it because we liked the sound :)
- jordanwallwork 10y ago
  Yeah that's very confusing then
wavewash 10y ago
Exactly what I thought when I saw the name. I was confused.
cdhanna 10y ago
Yeah, I thought it was a tool for packing textures into a single image.

kowdermeister 10y ago

A link to the Github page would be nice.

Mikepicker 10y ago
Thanks! We'll add a link on the website

Zekio 10y ago

Why use "rar" rather than "zip" for the download