kelanhordos wrote: ↑23 Jun 2024, 22:12
Hi Cardin. I think there is some kind of odd interaction or display bug going on, but I don't get this particular behaviour. More testing needed I think?
I think part of what's going on is Local smoothing is supposed to override "Global" Smoothing in the Line smoothing panel, so you can have separate smoothing for different tools. I noticed your local smoothing is set very low (1.5) and you have HUD option (which shows the pulled string) turned off. I see you have a 4k screen, so I wonder what resolution are you working at? Is it possible it is smoothing(the 1.5) setting but very little and not noticeable?
Can you try turning the local smoothing off and see what it does?
In the video below I activate the Line Smoothing in the pop up panel, the
Activate Line smoothing on the pen and the
Local Smoothing. You can see that there is a bit of a glitch that I circle where the display is bugged and appearing where it shouldnt be, but I still get my line smoothing activated. I switch to the filled stroke tool at the end to show that it also works on that tool.
Thanks, kelanhordos. You are correct that the parameters of the floating panel do indeed work but only IF Activate Line Smoothing is also checked on the tool panel with local smoothing turned off. But there is still a problem with the implementation.
My assumption is that the way it currently works is not actually how it was intended. Or perhaps, at the very least, there should be some changes made to make it clearer.
The video below shows that this "extra" panel has Line Smoothing Active but the other Line Smoothing option integrated into the tool panel is NOT checked. The initial strokes are NOT affected by the settings in the additional panel. It's only when I also click the primary line smoothing box from the Pencil Brush Panel that the smoothing is actually activated. Your video affirms this as well. But why should we need to click on
BOTH boxes? You are correct that it does indeed function, but
if the floating panel is indeed supposed to be GLOBAL, I shouldn't need to click on both boxes for "Activate Line Smoothing" for each tool in order for it to work. That completely defeats the purpose of having a Global option.
Secondly, consider the FREEHAND Selection Tool. In TVP11, the Selection Tool was affected by Line Smoothing because in that version, there was no Local Smoothing Option. If Line Smoothing was ON, it was ON for every tool. My assumption is that for TVP12, the devs added Local Smoothing for all the tools that were intended to have smoothing. As we see, there is no local smoothing option for the FREEHAND Selection Tool integrated into the panel like the other tools (Pencil, Brush, etc) so I don't think it was intended to be affected by Line Smoothing in TVP12. But it is indeed affected by Line Smoothing parameters from the floating panel as demonstrated in the video below...
Also, the fact that ALL the shortcuts for Line Smoothing only affect the Floating Panel and not the parameters attached to the Tool Panel suggest there was an oversight in how the new functionality was implemented.