Symbol selection issue with new tools
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Actually, I would suggest (in addition to the bug fix for the second issue in my above post) that dragging after placement using the "Symbol Stamp Tool" currently seems to do nothing, which is useless.
Neither the "Symbol Stamp Tool" nor the "Symbol Spray Brush" currently does anything to the context panel, leaving whatever was there from the previous tool intact (?).
I would like to make the following suggestions:
- The Symbol Spray Brush should have an option on the context panel to configure the maximum displacement of the sprayed elements (perhaps as a percentage of the size of the symbol being sprayed?) and an option to limit the rate at which new symbols are added when the pointer is held still.
- The Symbol Stamp Tool should have three modes selectable using icons on the context panel:
- Dragging after placing the symbol should move the symbol by dragging
- Dragging after placing the symbol should scale the symbol
- Dragging after placing the symbol should behave as a brush (spray tool with no "extra" symbols while held still and with no displacement from the pointer; possibly have a configurable option on the context panel to control the frequency over distance at which symbols are added along the dragged path)
As an alternative to the brush mode of the stamp tool (and maybe this even makes more sense?), the Symbol Spray Brush tool could become the brush instead when the maximum displacement setting is set to zero.
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@fde101 The symbol stamp and spray tool has been improved in the new build 1.1.024 as requested. Options are in the context panel.
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@vectoradmin , the new options for the stamp tool are awesome. Thank you - that seems to be working great.
I am still having problems with the spray brush, now (.025) it seems to be placing symbols at a rather extreme offset from the mouse position when adding them after having already used the stamp tool?
I haven't put much time yet into narrowing down the conditions under which that is happening - will try to see if I can come up with a recipe later.
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@fde101 said in Symbol selection issue with new tools:
it seems to be placing symbols at a rather extreme offset from the mouse position when adding them after having already used the stamp tool?
I will try to replicate this.
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I am having difficulty trying to reproduce this issue now. It was definitely happening to me earlier, but I'm not sure exactly what series of events triggered it.
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@fde101 said in Symbol selection issue with new tools:
I am having difficulty trying to reproduce this issue now. It was definitely happening to me earlier, but I'm not sure exactly what series of events triggered it.
Was, by any chance, the symbol set scaled before using the symbol spray tool again?
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@vectoradmin that is entirely possible. I just tried that (scaled the set of symbols then sprayed more) and it is behaving in a clearly undesirable way, but not the same way as it was when I had reported it.
I should probably add that some of the symbols were actually showing up completely off the canvas when it was happening the first time, so I likely scaled the whole thing afterward to get them back on.
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@fde101 Replicated here too!
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@vectoradmin said in update 1.1.026:
- Adding symbols with the symbol spray tool inside transformed symbol sets placed them in wrong positions.
The position seems to be fixed now, but the scale is still off. After scaling the symbol set, if I switch back to the symbol spray brush and start spraying more symbols, they show the ghosts at the original size, but the placed symbols take on the scaled size from the existing set.
As I scaled the existing symbols in the set but am freshly painting the new symbols, I would expect the newly sprayed symbols to be at the original size (like the ghosts), not the scaled size from the existing set.
I do see that if I switch to the transform tool, the symbol set is still selected (hidden while using the symbol spray brush) and if I deselect it then switch back to the symbol spray brush, they do spray at the original size. If there is a limitation that all of the symbols in the set must be at the same size, then the placement behavior while extending the set is understandable, but then the ghosts should at least match the reality of what will happen.
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@fde101 There is no limitation on have the same symbol size. What happens here is that the newly inserted symbols will get the same transformation form the symbol set.
I will figure out some solution for this.
