Cursor disappears when using stabilizer in affinity photo

[Jbr3dguy]

The cursor disappears with Affinity Photo 2.6.0. (latest)  when trying to use the stabilizer. I have the stabilizer set in rope mode and also tried the window mode with no cursor showing?

I am in erase mode when trying to use the stabilizer, but the cursor does not show up in paint brush mode as well.

My mouse is set to not show trails. 

I am using the Wacom Intuos Pro S (PTH-460) tablet (I have the latest drivers)

In settings for affinity photo, In the user interface the following are checked.....show brush previews, always show brush crosshairs and enable pointer support.

Its seems that was an issue with earlier versions, but it seems to still be a problem with my latest version of affinity photo.?

[Ron P.]

@Jbr3dguy welcome to the forums,

Caps Lock on a Windows machine causes this. Make sure you don't have Caps Lock on.

[Jbr3dguy]

Caps lock is not on 

[Ron P.]

I've tried, and can not replicate this.

The only other thing I can think of is to Reset Brushes.

1. Click on the Assistant Settings, button located in the center of the Menu Bar. Looks like a little space alien.
2. In the Assistant Settings dialog, click on the Miscellaneous  button at the bottom.
3. Locate and Click on Reset Brushes .

BEFORE resetting the brushes, I'd recommend backing up your brushes. If you have any custom brushes you've created they will be lost.

To Back up your Brushes I would go to the Common Folder, locate the Rasterbrushes.propcol file. Copy it to some other location on your system.

To quickly navigate to the Common Folder>User (where the propcol files reside) copy and paste the following into the Run dialog. Right-click on the Start icon in the task bar, then select Run.

%USERPROFILE%\.affinity\Common\2.0\user

[Jbr3dguy]

Hello Ron,

I tried resetting the brushes, but unfortunately the cursor when activating the stabilizer still does not appear.

I just wanted to be clear that it is tail end of the cursor and not the front cursor that is not appearing. I was watching a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?)v=MGSiHIq8sv4)  and it seems that the tail end cursor not showing is normal.??  I could be mistaken into thinking that a tail end cursor should appear and its size is dependent on the width selected? But now maybe this is not the case and it seems that it could be seen in earlier versions of affinity photo. Thank you for your help.

 

 

[Ron P.]

@Jbr3dguy,

Ok, that's by design. When using the Stabilizer with a Brush, you see a small circle (head), the attached rope, then the small X where you're painting.

Here's a tutorial that I've watched a few times. He explains the various brush settings quite well. It's for Designer, but the Stabilizer works the same for Affinity Photo.