01-14-2024, 02:10 PM
(01-14-2024, 01:21 PM)R Soul Wrote: Hello.
I sometimes use a set of grunge brushes which tile seamlessly. Very good for game textures and other 3d scenes. To fit them to the image currently requires a couple of steps which I'd prefer to simplify:
1. Manually set brush size to image size (this usually applies to square images so the size value on its own is usually enough).
Which image? The target image or the image used as a brush? if the former, you are using a single brush stroke in the whole image (then why a brush?), if the later, there is a reset button in the Tool options to reset the brush to its native size (and if you switch the brush, the size is reset to the native size of the new brush).
(01-14-2024, 01:21 PM)R Soul Wrote: 2. Create horizontal and vertical guides at 50% each (or zoom in and be careful). I recently installed a guides plugin which makes this a little easier.
Another option I read about was to set up the grid so that its lines cross at the centre, but that's quite a few steps and some people might want the grid for other uses.
The above may only be 2 steps but I may have several layers with different grunge brushes, and/or be making several images, so those 2 steps can multiply quite quickly. Some repetition will be needed if, between adding grunge brushes, I change the brush size for other things (e.g. eraser, painting, cloning etc).
Does anyone know if there are any addons that could simplify the above process? If not, I'd be happy to raise a feature request on the GNome page for 3.2 (I'm aware that 3.0 is now having just it's existing features tweaked, which makes sense).
Not very hard to make a script that makes an appropriately centered grid that matches the current brush size... (which IMHO is more practical than guides, because you would have to remove all existing guides each time you change a brush and these do have other purposes). For extra credit: should the grid be aligned with the image or with the active layer?