ABR Brushes hit and miss on Affinity 19.2

[fjunk]

The ones that aren't working in Affinity, work in either GIMP (2.10) or Krita (4.45).

Here's an example:
 

(Unexpected Brush Format)

 

 

SS_snowflake_vectors_abr.zip

[R C-R]

FWIW, I successfully imported those SS_snowflake brushes into all 3 Affinity apps on my Mac - no 'unexpected format' errors at all.

The only thing at all odd about them is they are imported as raster brushes.

[Alfred]

10 minutes ago, R C-R said:

The only thing at all odd about them is they are imported as raster brushes.

I would expect Photoshop *.abr files to contain raster brushes. The only thing at all odd about this one is the presence of the word ‘vectors’ in the filename.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, Alfred said:

I would expect Photoshop *.abr files to contain raster brushes. The only thing at all odd about this one is the presence of the word ‘vectors’ in the filename.

Yes, that word in the name was what I found a little odd. I should have been clearer about that.

[fjunk]

7 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I would expect Photoshop *.abr files to contain raster brushes. The only thing at all odd about this one is the presence of the word ‘vectors’ in the filename.

Here's what's further odd.

They won't import from my hard drive - several locations.

I copied them to iCloud, created a separate folder.  They wouldn't import from that folder.

ONLY when I copied them over to an iCloud folder for Affinity Design assets would they properly import.

This is a little too much having to be specifically precise to get something as simple and mundane as importing brushes done.

The more I have to jump through these kinds of hoops, the less I like Apple or Affinity.  Affinity says its Apple.  Pretty sure Apple will say it's something else.

yuck!

 

I also just downloaded some Procreate Snowflakes, unarchived the brush file, renamed the internal, identical shape.png files from each brush file folder, copied them over to another folder, pulled them in as images, removed the backgrounds, imported selections as brushes.  Now I have "black" snowflakes that don't like styles and the only good thing is that, at least I can pick a style which at least changes them to white / off-white so they at least look like snowflakes.

Got love them proprietary firewalls from one asset to the next.

Got the tip for this process here on Affinity Forums so no funny business involved.  All above board.

 

[R C-R]

23 minutes ago, fjunk said:

They won't import from my hard drive - several locations.

I had no problems importing them from the desktop folder of my Mac. In fact, just dragging & dropping the unzipped file onto the Dock icons of any of my Affinity apps worked fine, including all the retail & beta versions. So did right-clicking on the unzipped file & choosing any of the Affinity "Open with" options, as well as the 'open with' option to import them into Pixelmator Pro.

I do not know what your problem is with this particular *.abr file but for me it is very simple & straightforward.

[fjunk]

It's not just this particular *.abr file.  At some point my system just shuts down and won't let me save.  I can add it as an asset because that retains the file entire, then reboot my system and most times that works.

I wonder if it might be the fact that I'm using SSD, new technology to me.  That maybe somehow that's mucking up the workds.

It's a 2 TB drive, so space isn't the issue, especially after I moved a ton of stuff over to a 6 TB external drive.

Yeah, I don't know what my problem is either.  Posted on this elsewhere.

[R C-R]

14 minutes ago, fjunk said:

I wonder if it might be the fact that I'm using SSD, new technology to me. 

My iMac has an SSD as well, so that isn't it.

If your system is shutting down & won't let you save files, you have a systemic problem of some kind. Maybe running Disk Utility's First Aid option will turn up something.

[fjunk]

Good to know.  I'll try that and see if it helps.

Thanks.