Increase and decrease size and opacity in steps

[KenC]

Here's a toolbar that allows you to increase and decrease brush size and opacity in steps larger than 1

I frequently work with large brushes and scaling them up and down with the bracket keys takes to long so I created these to help speed up my workflow.

They work no matter what brush type you are using, except when the brush type don't have opacity or size parameters.

They both have a config so you can setup your step size to suit your needs, this is stored between sessions in the tvpaint ini file.

Before using, click the config button and enter your preferred step sizes. You can change the step sizes at any time by clicking the config buttons again.

Bind them to keys with control+k

[Elodie]

Thanks for sharing your panel KenC =)

[KenC]

Whoups, caught a small bug with opacity for the cutbrush, all better now. Also added some icons so you can hide the text labels if you don't bind these to shortcuts.

[masterchief]

I use the Shuttle PRO v2 from Contour Design http://retail.contourdesign.com/?/products/23
I use the jog wheel to alter brush size....

regards,
William

[KenC]

How much is it? The store locator only accepts US postal codes so I can't find any prices or if they sell it in europe. Would be nice to be able to test it somewhere.

[masterchief]

I paid $150 USD... It is now listed at $109 USD

the shuttle pro has 15 buttons...
I use the buttons located either side of the shuttle wheel to page through multiple setups for software with current focus..
I have setups for drawing, and editing.. would be close to concept of rooms in TVP9... I page through different setups and button setting on Shuttle PRO update.
so basically you have potential for unlimited button configuration. Shuttle PRO also has macro capability .... how fast can you press a button and rotate jog/shuttle wheels?

regards,
William

[KenC]

oh I can press buttons hehe, online gaming, playing drums, programming etc..

I've allways loved gadgets. I use an Ergodex DX1 (http://www.ergodex.com/content12.php), and various midi controllers converted to send keyboard codes.

[Sewie]

You can get it at Amazon.de.

You can also use the touch wheel of your Intuos4 for your brushsize, Ken...

[KenC]

Thanks for the link.

Yeah I know I can use the touchwheel and the 4 shift states and all that but I never use it. It's located awkwardly for me, and there's not enough of the side buttons by a long shot for my use so if I used the touchwheel I'd be constantly moving my non-drawing hand from the keyboard to the touchwheel. I don't think I have a single button or combination left on my keyboard, even numlock,printscreen and pause keys are mapped to something via autohotkey.

Hopefully we will someday be able to use all keyboard modifiers at once, like control+alt+shift+a

I'm probably crazy

[Sewie]

I know what you mean. One can never have enough shortcuts.
Have you ever tried one of those game-keyboards? They have loads of these extra (programmable) keys for macro's, etc. But I don't know if they would work properly with TVP though...

[KenC]

Yeah I use this: http://www.ergodex.com/content12.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's great because you can place the keys so they fit perfectly to your hand. It has a built in macro editor but also a simple record button. Just tap the record button at anytime then tap whatever on your normal keyboard and end the recording by tapping one of the keys on the pad and you have a macro bound to that key on the fly. You can edit macros and change timing or create them from scratch. It even allows you to have one macro when you press a key and another when you release it. So you can have the color picker when pressed down and when you release go back to a brush for example.

The keys sit on these transparent plastic trays so you can print out what keys do and put it under the tray. You can buy more sets of keys and have custom key setups for different programs so you just switch out the key layout.

I also tried the nostromo by belkin but it's to limited and I'm a lefty so it's pretty useless for me as the sidebuttons can't be reached easily.

[Sewie]

Can you tell us more about the Shuttle Pro, William?
I was never so sure about the space-navigator...



I've understood that it is quite hard to scroll frame by frame because it doesn't have a feedback for how much you've scrolled. The wheel doesn't 'click' if you know what I mean... Is that different with the Shuttle PRO?

[Sewie]

Wow, that looks like an amazing gadget, Ken!

Have you seen this youtube tutorial by Lemec where he's explaining using TVPaint with a Cintiq while he is sitting in a cockpit surrounded by gaming gadgets totally geared up to TVPaint? (It's somewhere on this forum but I can't find it at the moment.) I have a feeling you two should meet...

[KenC]

Oh yes I saw that one on his youtube channel, behind the scenes something.. Awesome setup.

I have a midi controller that I'm trying to hook up to TVPaint with lots of buttons knobs and faders but the midi to keyboard software I have doesn't want to recognize my midi controller because it's USB and not a standard midi interface but I'll get it up and running somehow, half the fun is trying

I've tried allmost all the game controllers available and the only one I've been satisfied with is the DX1. it just does everything right.

[masterchief]

I also use the Logitech G11 USB gaming keyboard... it has a series of 18 G keys on the left side of the keyboard allowing you to set up 3 banks.. this give a total of 54 G function key settings. All of the keys on the keyboard are underlit with blueish glow... My two yr old son cant keep his hands off of it. LOL