Steps in strokes

[Casper Boemann]

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 13:17, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> When working on a paint paintop Wet & Sticky I realized that we don't
> currently have a way to tell the paintop how many times the paintop has
> been exececuted in the current stroke. We'll need something that starts
> counting on tool-down, informs the paintop where we are in the stroke and
> lets the paintop inform the tool back about the current state.
>
> This would enable not only interesting things like loading a brush with a
> finite amount of "paint", but also transfering paint from the canvas back
> onto the brush, and even painting with gradients as in the Gimp.
>
> What would be best: counting steps, or using the distance traveled in
> pixels? And how shall we combine this with the curve smoothing in
> KisPainter?
How about how hard you press and angle of application.
But to answer you question I think distance as this is the natural thing. 
Steps is only an implementation. Should distance then be pixels or actual 
distance based on resolution?

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best regards / venlig hilsen
Casper Boemann