About Master Brush

[Bol Bib]

yes ,I think that how boud explains it would work fine. 

> From: boud at valdyas.org
> To: mohit.bits2011 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: About Master Brush
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:00:09 +0200
> CC: kimageshop at kde.org
> 
> Hi Mohit,
> 
> Sorry for not having seen your mail earlier -- the kickstarter made life rather busy.
> 
> It would be good to canvas the opinion of artists, but here are my thoughts:
> 
> * the main thing that makes a brush engine unique is the actual brush painting code -- whether it's a stamp like the pixel brush, brush hairs or shapes.
> * all the other things are options -- some brushes already have all the options, others only a subset.
> 
> It's not going to work to have all the various painting algorithms in one brush engine. The thing to do is, I think, first create the template mechanism: save the brush options and load them into another brush, that can then re-use the options it recognizes, and discard the ones it doesn't have.
> 
> The next step would be to think which options are missing in which engines and whether they make sense there.
> 
> Then, instead of creating a new brush engine, I'd start implementing a smudge option that would work with the existing brush engines, instead of being a separate brush engine. It would be pretty cool to be able to smudge with the experiment or grid brush...
> 
> Together, I think this would implement what bollebib asked for.
> 
> I've cc'ed the mailing list, since others might have more input.
> 
> On Wednesday 09 July 2014 Jul 13:36:21 you wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I wanted to ask about the requirements for Master Brush and how we intend
> > to go about it.
> > Since it is a relatively bigger feature, I just wanted to get a feel of
> > what can be done.
> > Here is my understanding till now.
> > So overall Master Brush is supposed to be anew brush engine that contains
> > various features(KisPaintOpOption)  from other brushes. Smudge if possible
> > can be used with particle features and so on. However, to decide the
> > compatible feature -- we will have to find out a way. Maybe some can be
> > predecided -- but as new brushes come along -- I guess we will have to
> > automate that process.
> > I thought of a very naive approach that whether we can simply just add
> > KisPaintOpOptions to the Master Brush PaintOp. For example -- upon right
> > click on any of the options -- if somebody selects "Add to MasterBrush",
> > the option will be added to it.Then it is upto the option whether it is
> > supposed to work or not with the other options.For example -- I guess a
> > chalk brush option can work well with Smudge -- but not with a particle
> > brush. So that will be up to the user. But I am sure this will have more to
> > it.
> > 
> > So basically, what else can we do in Master Brush? I just wanted to know
> > the requirements so that by the time Cumulative Undo/Redo is over --we can
> > get straight into this :)
> > 
> > 
> > Warm Regards,
> > Mohit Goyal | +918600046760
> > BITS-Pilani Goa Campus
> y
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