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Reapply on multiple instances without creating new instances

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 14:27
by ryberg
This has been bugging me for years.

Why is it, that whenever you reapply a tool like floodfill or a brush stamp over multiple selected frames, the instance is broken into several instances on ones rather than just applying on heads only?

Is there a solution or will this go straight to feature request?


of course, one can always reapply then recompute, but some projects are so huge that it becomes too slow a process and it's actually faster to do it manually by going next instance, reapply, next instance, reapply... :?

Re: Reapply on multiple instances without creating new insta

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 14:54
by Elodie
You can eventually disable the option 'auto break instance", in "image" menu > "instance". :)

Re: Reapply on multiple instances without creating new insta

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 15:18
by ryberg
yeah, I've done that and it doesn't change anything. If I draw with a brush between instance heads, with that turned off, no new instance is created as I would expect but unfortunately that doesn't apply for the reapply function. :(

Re: Reapply on multiple instances without creating new insta

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 15:51
by Paul Fierlinger
I confirm this and have always just used the recompute button, which in all my cases so far works out pretty close to happening instantly.

Re: Reapply on multiple instances without creating new insta

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 20:57
by Svengali
ryberg,

Last year I posted a button and script in a tvpx that solved this problem (without creating new instances). The script took about 40 lines. Since then I've learned a new George command that takes care of the same process in a one line script! Try it.

download "ReApply Heads Only" here

Sven

Re: Reapply on multiple instances without creating new insta

Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 06:37
by Elodie
ryberg wrote:yeah, I've done that and it doesn't change anything. If I draw with a brush between instance heads, with that turned off, no new instance is created as I would expect but unfortunately that doesn't apply for the reapply function. :(
Looks like a bug ! :o

Re: Reapply on multiple instances without creating new insta

Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 07:14
by ryberg
Elodie wrote:Looks like a bug !
if it's a bug, it's very common. I've seen this on 25+ different workstations, both mac and pc.
But yeah, it does seem like a bug to me as well.


@ Svengali

Thanks for the script, I was just about to consider doing something similar, good work.

Re: Reapply on multiple instances without creating new insta

Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 07:53
by Mads Juul
Elodie wrote:
ryberg wrote:yeah, I've done that and it doesn't change anything. If I draw with a brush between instance heads, with that turned off, no new instance is created as I would expect but unfortunately that doesn't apply for the reapply function. :(
Looks like a bug ! :o
+1

Re: Reapply on multiple instances without creating new insta

Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 08:59
by Fabrice
ryberg wrote:
Elodie wrote:Looks like a bug !
if it's a bug, it's very common. I've seen this on 25+ different workstations, both mac and pc.
But yeah, it does seem like a bug to me as well.


@ Svengali

Thanks for the script, I was just about to consider doing something similar, good work.
Normal, it the same code on all OS, since not an input/output