Creating smoke without using the Smoke Live Effect?

[stygg2003]

Gary relating the selecting outline, does it mean that maybe possible to apply a brush to an object outline? I mean for example if in Shape tool drawing a rectangle, setting line width to it, then somehow applying the brush to its width line?

Is this the effect you want ?

Stygg

[csehz]

That is really interesting yes it works, at my first try was not able to reproduce



Anyway so like on this example, the brush contains a star, a circle and a rectangle, is it possible to Edit the Brush on that way that for example removing the star? Because that one which never knew how to do yet

[amoore]

You can change various attributes of the brush, but I don't believe you can directly edit the objects that make up the brush. To do that, you need to create a new brush.

[Egg Bramhill]

Allison is quite correct and I can't think of any practical reason to be able to do so. However you could create your drawing by using 3 different brushes and deleting the one you don't want. See attachments. (The gif below is an animation but you need to click it to view the animation)

[wizard509]

That's wild Egg.

[csehz]

Egg thanks very much the tutorial, I would think practical the ability to remove or add something to a created brush, because like that could experiment which looks better or something like that.

[Egg Bramhill]

Yes I see csehz, so just keep copies of the shapes you used to create the brush, make duplicates & change one or more shapes then create a new brush from these. It's very fast.

[PhilM]

Hi everyone,

I just found this while looking into the issue of editing brush definitions:

Did you know that if you open the Line Gallery, open the "New Brush Strokes" section and right click on a brush item there's an option to "Copy brush graphic to clipboard"... Click that and then Paste and you have the original brush shapes.

This doesn't really let you edit a brush definition because, having changed the objects, you'd have to create a new version and then set up the other parameters again. However, it does mean that you don't need to keep copies of your original objects and you can get at the definitions of third party brushes.

Phil

[csehz]

Phil that is very good, never would perceive that option From this topic really learnt a lot

[amoore]

Excellent. Thanks, Phil.

Allison