ronnyb Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Would be great to be able to adjust the amount of curvature ib the leading edge of the teardrop, perhaps oscillating between current (dome shape) and a parabola.... LOVE shapes! MattP 1 Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 22, 2015 Can you draw a picture to show exactly what you mean? Thanks. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Ok, attached is my AD file I was working on. Here's the backstory: I was building some raster intensity brushes using @paolo.limoncelli's awesome primer on the subject. So I started by using the Tear shape, which got me 95% of the way there, but being a perfectionist I wanted to adjust the leading edge of the bristles. It was easy enough to do by hand, but your parametric controls are so slick, I couldn't hold back :) SIDE NOTE: Having a custom palette/interface using shapes and effects to build nibs for custom brushes would be sick. I know you can do it all within AD, but the exporting and re-importing part could be much cleaner and intuitive if all the parameters are always live, so the brush's nib is actually a vector! Not sure how that would affect performance though... AD - custom brush 2.afdesign Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 22, 2015 It already does that - try clicking "Fixed ball size" and another control point should appear allowing you to set the length of the end section. The automatic (default) method is to create a semicircle for the end section with the size automatically deduced from the width of the shape. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Ok, I need to get off my pain meds.... LMAO Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 22, 2015 We think of everything... ;) ronniemcbride 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 That Shape tool looks like the ideal tool to build realistic nibs for dynamic brushes... Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 22, 2015 I'll mention it to the guys tomorrow, see what people think.... The Tear shape can certainly make the two shapes in your example above easily enough. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Yeah that's what I used before Converting to curves to adjust the head, which i somehow missed on the original Shape.... Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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