Vector bush stroke ‘pressure profile’ issue / confusion

[theshadowsfly]

So I’m having an issue with the vector brush (Designer 2 IPad), and I can’t tell if this is a bug, or part of its design.

When using the pencil tool you can select the controller as none, draw a line, then adjust its pressure curve from the ‘stroke panel’… that pressure curve will then be applied to subsequent strokes (I want tapered ends and a fat middle) this is the behavior I’m trying get out of the vector brush but it doesn’t behave like this. If you set the controller to none, there is no pressure curve applied, and the pressure curve from the stroke panel will not make any changes… it seems you have to set the controller to ‘pressure’ which records the pressure curve as you draw… you’d then have to go to the stroke panel, reset the curve, then adjust to what you want; even then, that pressure curve cannot be applied to subsequent strokes… so you have to do this manually for each stroke? 
 

The only work around I can find is to do all the line work with the pencil tool (with the desired pressure curve applied) then go back, select all those lines and choose a vector brush to be applied which will conform to the pressure curve I want… 

Is this a bug, or is this the intended operation… and is there any better way to accomplish this? It’d be sooo helpful if I could either select a vector brush right off the bat to be applied to the pencil tool, or if there was a way to assign a pressure profile to the vector brush tool rather than having to adjust everything after the fact. 
 

Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

[DM1]

On 11/22/2022 at 11:13 AM, theshadowsfly said:

It’d be sooo helpful if I could either select a vector brush right off the bat to be applied to the pencil tool, or if there was a way to assign a pressure profile to the vector brush tool rather than having to adjust everything after the fact. 

Hi Shadowsfly, apologies for the late reply. Hopefully you’ve worked this out but I’d not hopefully the following helps.

When you select a brush to apply with either pencil or vector brush too you can choose one with a pressure profile attached. For some reason the brush controller in the context menu at the top defaults to None, Change that to Brush Default or Pressure. Then adjust the brush width to suit. Now the stroke size should respond to the pressure you apply. There is an icon on the context menu next to the colour selector that allows you to adjust brush setting on the fly. If you don’t save the changes they will revert to default the next time you open a file. Save makes the changes permanent.

If you left swipe on a brush  in the Studio menu you will see a new menu. Here you can duplicate and edit brush properties in more detail. 🙂