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Hi Aaron, just a query about the DM pencil. It's a little unresponsive, why? I don't know how you've coded it but wouldn't a long wait at the end of setting many pixels be better than lots of little waits after each individual pixel. If you could preserve the brush-like interaction more I think that would be a big improvement because it more often than not doesn't feel like drawing, more like punching lots of buttons. Perhaps this could tie in with my previous suggestion of current edits being red?

//hmm- maybe it's not quite that slow, but it could do with speeding up. It's the image overlay that slows things down.

Cheers,
monks

Hi Monks,

Yup, the image overlay is very, very far from being an optimal solution. It does quite a large buffer-redraw every time you modify a pixel. It's on my to-do list to improve this, but there are higher priorities at the moment.

Cheers,
Aaron.

well it does say BETA on the dialog box...

monks

Here's a couple of more suggestions for the DM pencil:

The ability to invert pixel selection in any of the DM schemes.

Ability to apply a new setting to all currently selected pixels. For instance, you have just painted a large area with Erosion3, you then decide, erosion 4 would work better, so simply go into the DM pencil dialog, move the slider and press a button or whatever, and all of those pixels are changed at a stroke.

Cheers,
monks

Hi Monks,

This has been requested before, and I would have sworn that mouse selection tools were already on the to-do list. Hmmm...apparently not. Okay, I've added it to the list but not scheduled it for any particular release just yet.

Aaron.

Hello,

Just a follow-up for the sake of completeness: the speed of the image drape has been fixed in the latest dev-build (2.4.1.8, 6th of Sept, Pro only). The difference shound not be noticeable now.

Cheerio,
Aaron.