Placing Cutbrush

[Mads Juul]

When Making A Custom Brush With the Cut brush we have some difficulties in placing the brush(part of draing) preciesly(maybe we are shaking to much on our hands )

I was thinking of ot was possible to :
- apllying the custom brush on the place where the mouse curser is without using the wacom(or digitizer) pen ?
- nudge the cutbrush pixel by pixel up down left right with key board short cuts for preciesly positioning ?
- some way to apply the cutbrush the same place as you cut it out ?

-mads

[Mads Juul]

I think I found the answer to my first question how to apply the custom brush
to where the mouse curser is :

assign a keybord shortcut to the command Tools : Draw Dot

I was also thinking of a script like:

Code: Select all

Param None
tv_getMouse
tv_Dot result

But It seems to place the custom prush with a little offset?

-mads

[Mads Juul]

how do I delete a message?

Edit : I just wantd to remove this post because nohing stands here

[Patrice]

No need to delete your message Mads, it can be useful for other people

[Peter Wassink]

I agree Fabrice. stuff like this is interesting for many other users.
There is a real treasure of TVP experience information on this forum but the problem is often how to access it.
The forumsearch function does not work very well.

I often try a search but i only get a list of threads and not individual posts.
Could maybe some improvement be made there?

if not... someone should make the effort to work through all the forumthreads and translate lessons and solutions, like this one from Mads, to F.A.Q. topics

[ZigOtto]

I agree Fabrice. ...

you're right for the 4 last letters of the guy's name,
but wrong for the 3 begining letters (replace Fab by Pat).

ps: their cow's background are also very different, if it can help identification,
here's Fab's cow : , more peaceful than Pat's one ...

[Peter Wassink]

sorry about that


...btw.. Zig, i got no letters wrong ...only position!

[ZigOtto]

psss....... clever attempt Epter, indeed! you tried to have the last word ...
except you deliberately disregarded the Capital form of the first letter,
Keyframer seems to be innefficient here, you'll have to go with the WG_FX,
or the RotoSpline to morph the t in T and p in P .





ps : isn't that the same person, with 2 slightly different usernames ???

[Mads Juul]

No need to delete your message Mads, it can be useful for other people

OK I just wanted to remove the last Post I made because It was a post posted in the wrong topic. so i delete the content but I couldnt delete the post it self. anyway.
anyone know how to nudge a cutbrush?

-mads

[Mads Juul]

if there was a tv_setMouse george command I could create some nudge cutbrush scripts

but how Can i place a cutbrush on the exact same place As I cut It out on another Image?

I think that would be A nice way to copy parts of a animation drawing to another drawing(When some of the character is holds stil but some is animating). Of course I can do it with the Spare But I would like to do it with the cutbrush. and It would be Possible If there was a command to apply the cutbrush to the coordinated it was cut out

-mads

[oliveuk]

the way I go about copying a drawing is to drag the tail of the cell I want to duplicate and I make some modification on this new exposure. Automatically a new cell is created.

[Fabrice]

sorry about that


...btw.. Zig, i got no letters wrong ...only position!

!!

[toonsisters]

I would also like to know how to "paste in place" a custom brush as it is called in Flash.

Did anybody found out yet?

Could this be a feature request?

[ZigOtto]

I would also like to know how to "paste in place" a custom brush ...

hi toonsisters,

well, I firstly used the selection drawing tools to define the part I wanted to cut,
then used "Cut to Layer" command from the Tool : Select panel,
in that way you get the defined part separated from the rest in its own layer,
and keeping its original place, then you can drag the layer's right-handle to set its duration.
the less side is that it adds a new layer, so you'll have to merge it if you don't want
to increase your nb of layers. (an extra-step, and time consuming...)

then, later, I've made a couple of custom buttons,
[CiP] for "Cut in Place" and [PiP] for "Paste in Place",
how it works :
a) select the part of the drawing you want to cut (using selection drawing tools),
I usually use the FreeHand Select tool to surround it,
b) hit the [CiP] button to cut it as brush
c) go to the target frame (or select the range of frames), and hit the [PiP] button
it will paste it "in its original place" over the (selected) frame(s).
the cool thing is that, when a range of frames selected, it affects only the heads,
in respect of Instances.

To make it work properly, you have to previously keep unchecked the Tool: CutBrush options,
(see pict. below).

a last thing : if you want to Copy instead of Cut, hit Undo after the CiP action,
or, edit it, and remove the line2 "Key: Layer: Clear" command.

as far as I used it, it seems to work fine, although the Undo could be a bit messy/buggy
(only) when working on a range of frames in tvpa v8.x.x ...
so use it cautiously, ... as we use to say :" ... at your own risk"

[toonsisters]

Dear Zig,

thank you for the script.
the CIP button seems to work fine, but the PIP button does not what he is supposed to do.

when I first keep all cut brush options unchecked,
then select a part of an image,
then hit CIP,
then select my target image,
then hit PIP,
nothing appears.

do you have a clue what I am missing?

btw - how do you create custom icons ?

vera