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Svengali wrote:Paul,
I think you have to freehand select what you want to copy before clicking the C icon.

yes, the [C] button is a "Copy from Selection" command,
so you need to draw a selection first, with any selection tool,
but you can change it to a simple "Cut Brush" if it matches better in your workflow.
I often use this [Selection to Brush] command (instead of the classic Cut-Brush)
when the outlining of the area I want to select is too convoluted to be drawn in a single stroke,
sometimes, with complex shape (with holes f.i.), it's easier to adjust/refine the cutting boundaries
by using several selection strokes alternatively in [Add] and [Sub] mode.
another difference (limitation) with [Cut Brush] is that the [Selection to Brush] copy only the layer's content,
where [Cut Brush] has 2 options available "Layer" and "Display",
unfortunately, we still have no "Display" option with the [Selection to Brush] cutting tool,
also missing to me, the possibility to toggle the selection Add/Sub mode via a shortkey,
or have I missed something new regarding these 2 issues ?

Paul Fierlinger wrote:... it's really a simple case of cut and paste.

indeed,
or more exactly, a simple Copy and (multi)Paste without breaking Instance(s) .

ZO,
Doesn't the RMB let you undraw shapes in Selection mode?

Sven

Thank god for this thread.
i spent a bit of time trying to figure this out.
Thanks for all the great replies and saved hair pulling.
Its still un-intuitive , and it pained me to see the original poster walk on egg shells trying not to offend developers while expressing his thoughts on how backwards some of these functions seem.
I work a full time job and I try to get in an hour or two of animation in when I can.. so it can be a bit distressing when a 3rd of that time is looking up functions, that have been already normalized.

Yes, thanks to David's feedback, copy pasting with selection works in TVPaint 11.0.8.
That's the point of this forum : share experience and feedback to improve the technology. So if you are further questions on the software, please let us know.