Re: [Gimp-developer] simmetry differences

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>]

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:55:17AM +0200, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Marco Ciampa via gimp-developer-list
> <gimp-developer-list gnome org> wrote:
> > Hello devs!
> >
> > A few little doubts in simmetry painting.
> >
> > 1) having both horizontal and vertical mirror simmetry painting that you
> > can enable individually and at the same time, what is for the central
> > simmetry for?
>
> Well have you tried? If you have an horizontal and a vertical
> symmetry, you get 3 points, very often you want a fourth one (the
> central symmetry). But I have not made it automatic since maybe not.
> Who knows? I know other software would imply the central symmetry if
> you do horizontal + vertical, but I don't see this as that obvious.
> Also you may also want only the central symmetry.

Gosh I tried but not noted the 3 points instead of four, sorry!

> > 2) what is "disable brush transform" for?
>
> Copying an answer I made a few day ago:
>
> When you transform the drawing, the brush itself will end up
> transformed as well. For instance, in a mirror transform, not only
> will your drawing on the right of the canvas be mirrored on the left,
> but the brush itself is obviously "flipped" on the left.
> If for some reason, you wanted the drawn lines to be mirrored (or
> other transformation) but not the brush outline itself, you could
> check this box.
>
> For obvious reason, you won't see it with symmetrical brushes though.
> That's likely why you don't see the effect because many default
> brushes are symmetrical.

Well, by bad again. I tried with the "Pencil scratch" brush thinking it
was asimmetrical but it clearly isn't (I do not know why, though), with
"Sand Dunes (AP)" it works.

Sorry for the noise!


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Marco Ciampa

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