Brush bug

[Egg Bramhill]

I don't know if it's just my computer or a bug in Xara but if I attempt to alter nodes in a line with a brush applied I often get unpredicable results, which can often be interesting but uncontrolable. I attach an image showing the way the bug has altered the size of certain elements of the brush after I've attempted some node editing. (The cut out ring is the original brush) I have'nt downloaded the latest patch yet (still using v1.0c).

Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

I don't know if it's just my computer or a bug in Xara but if I attempt to alter nodes in a line with a brush applied I often get unpredicable results, which can often be interesting but uncontrolable. I attach an image showing the way the bug has altered the size of certain elements of the brush after I've attempted some node editing. (The cut out ring is the original brush) I have'nt downloaded the latest patch yet (still using v1.0c).

Egg

[tad]

Tell us more Egg. Unpredictable results are often the best.

Rgds.......Tad.... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[philhendry]

'Nice' image- but my first thought on seeing it was that it was a picture of some sort of unpleasant intestinal worm. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Phil

Trust the computer industry to shorten 'Year 2000' to 'Y2K'. It was this sort of thinking that caused the problem in the first place.

[Egg Bramhill]

Tad
I've tried to do an image of the brush error. As I said earlier it's very unpredictable and often nothing unusual happens but I've reproduced it again after some messing around.

Phil
I always end up with worms or microscopic gizmo's when I mess with the brush tool!

Egg

[wfcentral]

While it's definately more funny to see results interactively, what happens if "after" the image goes wacky... you click back to default line brush and then back to your custom one again - kinda reset the brush? Would the errors reproduce themselves or would it be fixed?

[Clements]

Egg, would this have more to do with the node properties and its control handles being changed and how you have defined the behavior in the brush stroke (such as spacing, rotation, etc. and/or pressure sensitivity)? Just a thought.

John

[Egg Bramhill]

WF and John

It's a strange fault. If I click undo until it disappears the redo it returns. I've also changed the brush to the default tool and then returned it to the original brush and it reappears. Also if I change the brush to a new one as in the image below it's still replicated. Has anyone else found this strange effect?

Egg

[ivan louette]

Yes I have often experimented this effect not only while adding new nodes but also while moving nodes of a brush with a free pressure profile! I think the tool isn't achieved for that matter.

Nevertheless I have experimented another thing very interesting: if you draw a line with a free pressure profile and revert this line with the shape editor tool it reverts exactly your free pressure profile between the two extremities of the line!

ivan

[Egg Bramhill]

Thanks for the confirmation Ivan. I've experienced it fairly regularly since the beta version, but I thought it added something extra to my original image.

As for your second point, I can't quite understand what your saying. Could you kindly explain it in more detail?

Regards

Egg