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See size of brush or tool as circle cursor

Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 20:57
by Mads Juul
I think it could be a help if you could see the size of your tool on the size of your cursor as a circle

this means to draw with the cursor as the red outline , just like when when I resize tool with z(metaResizeTool)
something like this(without the yellow lines of course. it is only the red circle I want to show)
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I'm not the only one who has asked for this feature. here is some links
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7100&p=63695&hilit ... ize#p63695
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5348&hilit=brush+size#p46916
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5339&p=46954&hilit ... ize#p46817
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8465

-Mads

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 21:22
by slowtiger
Definitely!

I'm not quite sure: wasn''t it this way in a former version?

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 11:16
by Peter Wassink
slowtiger wrote:Definitely!

I'm not quite sure: wasn''t it this way in a former version?
don't think so, but you can choose circle for cursor in the preferences, that circle is always the same size though.

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 12:54
by Elodie
Yes it does :

Edit => Preferences => Interface => Cursor => Circle

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 12:56
by Peter Wassink
No it doesn't:
madsjuul wrote:... if you could see the size of your tool on the size of your cursor as a circle...

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 13:27
by Elodie
It doesn't if your tool's size is connected to the pressure. Try with "none" :D

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 13:59
by slowtiger
It doesn't if your tool's size is connected to the pressure. Try with "none" :D
Ah, that explains it, but leaves me a bit unsatisfied. I could live with a circle depicting the largest range of the current tool, though.

But - my preferences only give me Cross, Arrow and Point - no Circle at all! Is that Mac-specific?

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 14:06
by Peter Wassink
Elodie wrote:It doesn't if your tool's size is connected to the pressure. Try with "none" :D
?
with none i still get the same circle cursor with fixed size and no correlation to my brush size?
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Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 14:21
by Elodie
slowtiger wrote:
It doesn't if your tool's size is connected to the pressure. Try with "none" :D
Ah, that explains it, but leaves me a bit unsatisfied. I could live with a circle depicting the largest range of the current tool, though.

But - my preferences only give me Cross, Arrow and Point - no Circle at all! Is that Mac-specific?
So use the point option (sorry, I'm using the French version and I though the English translation was Circle)

Start again : use the POINT cursor, not the circle.

Concerning the circle (and other cursors), it's a feature only available on PC. If you want to have those options on your Mac, please ask Eric :mrgreen:

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 14:23
by Mads Juul
Elodie wrote: But - my preferences only give me Cross, Arrow and Point - no Circle at all! Is that Mac-specific?

So use the point option (sorry, I'm using the French version and I though the English translation was Circle)

Start again : use the POINT cursor, not the circle.

Concerning the circle (and other cursors), it's a feature only available on PC. If you want to have those options on your Mac, please ask Eric :mrgreen:
there is a Cicle on my windows but it doesn't give me what I want
-mads

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 14:56
by slowtiger
it's a feature only available on PC
Possibly this can't be true??

I can't prove it, but I'm quite sure that former versions of TVP on Mac have had that circle, or my mind plays tricks on me. Anyway, such a circle cursor can't be that complicated to implement.

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 15:23
by Elodie
There are Mac and PC enough at TVPaint to tell you : yes, the circle is an option only available on PC :roll:

... until the contrary proof :P

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 16:03
by Svengali
On the PC, you can momentarily switch to mouse which displays the pen at maximum size, then switch back to stylus... if that's any help.

Sven

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 16:09
by Mads Juul
Svengali wrote:On the PC, you can momentarily switch to mouse which displays the pen at maximum size, then switch back to stylus... if that's any help.
Sven
haha nice try
well Its a feature Request

I would like a cicle curser that diplay the maximum size of the current brush as an outline. always. with the stylus and with pressure sensitivity on

-Mads

Re: See Size of Crush/tool as circle Cursor

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 16:27
by ZigOtto
madsjuul wrote:...
I would like a circle curser that diplay the maximum size of the current brush as an outline. always. with the stylus and with pressure sensitivity on
hmmm ... a circle ? why not the brush outline itself ?
I'm thinking about inbuilt brushes (airbrush, pen, ...) but also for CustomBrushes as well, (or at least a bounding box for CB).
This feature, displaying fullsize brush's outline (or bounding box) even with stylus and when Size connected to Pressure, could be an option, (enable/disable in the Preference panel), or just activated via a special key.