Navigation and eraser same as brush

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Hello,

I just downloaded today and I think this has a lot of potential. It seems as though this project is quite ambitious so I am worried that you will be spread to thin. As the ideas are all really cool. (Ones that stood out to me were skybox painting and 3d texture painting) I would love if I could truly have a 2d inspired texture painting software where I can paint on models and adjust colors destructively. This may be out of scope though which is okay.

From just trying it out coming from Krita and Blender as a digitalpainter/cg artist the navigation is a little cumbersome at the moment. Zooming on the canvas requires the tool to be selected. But in photoshop or krita for example, you can use ctrl + middle mouse and drag. Also shift + middle mouse to rotate canvas. Navigation is the first thing a lot of painters will notice.

Maybe Ill bullet point some ideas. Please let me know if I am mistaken anywhere.

  1. Cleaner navigation. Toggle for zoom and rotate canvas makes it much easier especially when using pen tablet. (These shouldnt require shortcuts, instead mouse/key inputs + drag)

  2. option for eraser tool same as brush tool. Basically a subtract version of current brush. With option to have eraser brush size seperate from brush size.

  3. Color picker needs love. No icon. And no color display. (Also toggle like shift + ctrl to select current layer color in case of adjustment layers affecting color)

  4. Available shortcuts to fill canvas on current layer or fill layer (retaining alpha).

  5. Quick destructive color adjustments like curves R, G, B, luminance, Krita is a great reference for curves adjustment as it has saturation and brightness also. Which can be a secret weapon for color adjustment. *Note painters often want destructive color adjustments, as we like pushing colors around. If we are forced to create an adjustment layer each time, it becomes cumbersome and its difficult to continue painting. One of the reasons I dont like Substance Painter.

  6. Perspective guides, Krita or Clip Studio Paint are good examples.

These are just a few points I noticed while playing around with painting. Hopefully I can come back and test later. I had some spare time at work to try out some new cool software :slight_smile:

The software looks great I hope it gets more funding!

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Hey, thanks for the feedback! One question

option for eraser tool same as brush tool. Basically a subtract version of current brush. With option to have eraser brush size seperate from brush size.

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Isn’t eraser tool doing what you described? Let me know if I’m missing something.

About texturing 3D models, it is something we’re definately looking into and it is acutally not out of scope, we’re just missing one piece of the puzzle (native 3D models rendering), but there are at least 2 ways we can solve this so I’d say it’s a matter of time

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Thanks for the reply!
It’s good to hear about the Texture Painting being likely eventually.

About the eraser. Yes it appears you can subtract/erase using any brush tip, but the brush and eraser tool texture/brush tip don’t sync. For example if I select “Foam brush” on the normal brush tool and then switch to eraser the foam brush is no longer selected. All that is needed is a toggle to have brush tip synced between eraser and brush tool. As well as toggle for brush size sync. When painting generally you would want your eraser to have the same brush tip as the brush. But not always so a toggle would be nice.

Also, I couldn’t find an intuitive way to resize the brush or eraser in PixiEditor. In other software it is shift + click drag to resize brush.

Another note is the line tool doesn’t use the brush tip. When using the mouse in pixieditor shift click seems to work when using a mouse but not when using tablet which is okay for drawing quick uniform lines. But I prefer using the line tool itself as with a pen tab you can change different variants of the line as you move through the line. Like brush size or rotation. Brush size being the most useful for having straight yet pressure sensitive lines.

Let me know if I am not clear on my explanation, I can add pictures.