Add Animbrush to tools that work with Merge mode

[Svengali]

For some reason (perhaps some limitation in TVPaint) the Animbrush doesn't offer MERGE as one of the painting mode options for accessing the image stored in the Spare buffer.

There are many rich imaging situations where a brush or a cycling animbrush would provide a varied contour or sequence of varied contours for the MERGE operation.

Is an Animbrush MERGE mode even possible in TVPaint?

Sven

[Elodie]

Eer... aren't you talking about smear stamp / smear source ?

[ZigOtto]

For some reason (perhaps some limitation in TVPaint) the Animbrush doesn't offer MERGE as one of the painting mode options for accessing the image stored in the Spare buffer.

hi Sven,
if you set your AnimBrush in "Alpha Stamp" or "Alpha Stamp Max" , the "Merge" painting mode is available as with any other (no-animated) tools (airbrush. pen, ...),
at least, it works here in both my v9.5 and v10 .

[Svengali]

Zig,

Wonderful, thanks!

Now I am sorry I didn't ask for that two years ago since Merge is a fundamental method in how I apply paint. Until now, I've only been using PenBrush and AirBrush to merge thru. This opens up several new avenues for scripting as well. Cool.

Sven

[ZigOtto]

... This opens up several new avenues for scripting as well. Cool.

indeed, although a Merge mode "SPARE/FRONT/BACK" optional source extention would be imo very welcome,
I mean being able to use the Back-Layer (or Front-Layer) frame's content to paint with instead of the spare content,
il will make possible to paint with animated (and timed) content
actually, I think a script could probably "workaround" this, but it would inevitably slow down the workflow.

[Svengali]

Couldn't you just copy the Front or Back layer into the Spare Buffer and go from there?

For example here are two handy Spare Buffer buttons that I use a lot.
1. ViewBuffer lets you peek at what is in the buffer.
2. Copy2Buffer lets you copy the current layer image into the buffer.

A little script could be written that would copy the current back layer image into the Spare Buffer whenever you advance or back up to a different frame too.

Sven

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