On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 11:01:29PM +0100, spin wrote:
>
> On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the MP 1.0.0 version won't spawn more than 6
> median graph points.

It should be 8 points (7 linear segments) in total. The value is hardcoded
in brushlib/mapping.c and probably some other places (but not many).

I think it's enough, a good approximation to some gamma-like curve should be
possible.  If not, it could be increased a bit (at the risk that there may
be a brush compatibility problem).

> Also, it seems I am unable to move the max and min pressure points
> along the x axis, but they can be moved along the y axis.

That's on purpose. If you were able to move the last point along the x axis,
then you would no longer be able to see on the screen what output value the
curve will take at an input close to 1.0.

In the brush settings, the you can edit the y scale of the curve, to get
around this limitation.  This slider is missing in the preference (it would
be hard to explain its purpose, too, few people get the brush setting
already, but at least fewer users really need to understand those.)

With the recent change in git that allows pressure above 1.0 to have an
effect, maybe the curve in the preferences could be changed to have the
ceiling at pressure output 2.0 instead of 1.0, allthough that might also be
confusing.

> Regarding individual pressures for each brush, I think this is is a
> great idea. I remember wanting to be able to set this while doing
> inkwork, because I like to have a steep raise on the brush size
> around halfway or two-thirds of the graph for ink brushes only.

That part is faster to implement than to discuss. It's in git master now:
https://gitorious.org/mypaint/mypaint/commit/23d2de

It's not auto-saved, though. And I'm not sure what is easier to understand
as a label, "pressure gain" or just "pressure" or maybe "sensitivity".

> Being able to decide if the brush uses local or global pressure
> curve (which setting could be exported with the brush) would be
> awesome.

The trick is to have a good GUI concept for this. The global pressure curve
will expected to have an effect on all brushes, I think.  The auto-saving of
brush settings may confuse the brush editing workflow...  it has been
discussed before, though, at least for the radius.  I think there is even a
bugreport about this.

-- 
Martin Renold

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