WHY isn’t the Pixel Brush Drawing Inside Objects! V2

[awakenedbyowls]

Basic operation I’ve done a million times - just suddenly wont add a pixel layer to objects anymore. I was doing it a few minutes ago - but ever since I performed a Boolean op on some layers it won’t do it at all now!

Why - another bug?

I’m seriously thinking about sacking this software off for something else right now

Hey buy the new updated version - it’s got even more bugs!🤦‍♂️

[debraspicher]

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[awakenedbyowls]

32 minutes ago, debraspicher said:

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And these are where? I didn’t change any settings - it just stopped drawing inside objects - or outside - or over objects - it won’t draw anything unless I put the pencil down elsewhere!

Is this because I performed a Xor ?

[awakenedbyowls]

I managed to get it to work by creating a Pixel Layer and dropping it into the Object

Why did it stop automatically adding Pixel layers?

[Alfred]

30 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said:

And these are where?

In AD2 on iPad they’re accessed via the Edit menu:

[awakenedbyowls]

I’m going to have to pick this up tomorrow. Only issue like this I had on V1 was with having to always select a colour before dropping the pencil, even if the colour I wanted was already selected - but this? It was doing what I wanted by just adding the brush strokes into the objects as it’s ALWAYS done and then all of a sudden it just stops working - a common feature of this software it seems.. 

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said:

It was doing what I wanted by just adding the brush strokes into the objects

If you're saying you're painting on pixel layers that are contained within vector objects, there are known issues with that, since V1.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=afd-5473

[awakenedbyowls]

28 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

If you're saying you're painting on pixel layers that are contained within vector objects, there are known issues with that, since V1.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=afd-5473

And I’m guessing these were never fixed - which doesn’t inspire much confidence in any of the new bugs being fixed before V3 then?

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said:

And I’m guessing these were never fixed - which doesn’t inspire much confidence in any of the new bugs being fixed before V3 then?

You can see the dates on the topics that are flagged with that tag. And you can read the descriptions to see if it seems like they explain what you're seeing.

[DM1]

10 hours ago, awakenedbyowls said:

just suddenly wont add a pixel layer to objects anymore. I

If the object layer is selected, a pixel layer will be created inside the layer. If not selected, a pixel layer is added to top of layers.

[awakenedbyowls]

1 hour ago, DM1 said:

If the object layer is selected, a pixel layer will be created inside the layer. If not selected, a pixel layer is added to top of layers.

Yes I know this. It’s the fact that it’s NOT doing this that’s the problem.

[awakenedbyowls]

OK time to take this thread to the BUG forum - this is ridiculous - I’m tempted to ask for a refund and look for an alternative - every time I put AD away and go back to it I end up spending all my time figuring out bugs rather than doing some work ! This new suite a mess 

[Paul Mudditt]

For anyone who reads this thread a solution was found by the op.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/182194-pixel-brush-not-creating-pixel-layer-within-objects/&do=findComment&comment=1056190

[awakenedbyowls]

45 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:

For anyone who reads this thread a solution was found by the op.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/182194-pixel-brush-not-creating-pixel-layer-within-objects/&do=findComment&comment=1056190

Yeah it was just me being a stressy dumb dumb (although in my defence I didn’t change the assistant settings - that I’m aware of)

[awakenedbyowls]

Objects seem to be clipping pixel layers now - before if I laid down some brush strokes inside an object it would also lay down the strokes outside the object (hidden) so you could move it about - but now everything is constrained within the object

Is there a setting for this? 

If I lay down pixel layers this way then I can move the layer around to adjust the composition without sharp edges now 

EDIT: It’s not doing this it’s the edge of the canvas that’s clipping pixel layers - probably always did that

[Paul Mudditt]

1 hour ago, awakenedbyowls said:

Objects seem to be clipping pixel layers now - before if I laid down some brush strokes inside an object it would also lay down the strokes outside the object (hidden) so you could move it about - but now everything is constrained within the object

Is there a setting for this? 

If I lay down pixel layers this way then I can move the layer around to adjust the composition without sharp edges now 

EDIT: It’s not doing this it’s the edge of the canvas that’s clipping pixel layers - probably always did that

Whilst it does clip to the canvas it initially is sized to the area you painted on, if you return to paint some more the “pixel” canvas eventually expands to the size of the document canvas.