(is it possible to do LPE on top of Spiro lines yet though? Current LPE seems to be only one at a time...)
Not anymore ;-) (svn rev 18743)
Oh! Excellent! :D
Question: if the default included shapes were Spiro lines (for smoother effects), would that affect the speed of the resulting strokes compared to if they were just Bezier? Just asking.
In any case, the part about making a few defaults shouldn't be too hard, and if they are insufficient, the "Copy and start drawing" feature would handle the task quite nicely anyway.
Say, is it possible to do apply LPE with multiple shapes yet? Imagine copying strings of text and just "drawing" them onto a path. Hahah! The pencil toolbar looks depressingly empty to me now!
I like this proposal, seems well thought-out and fun to implement. Hope to have a go at it, but don't expect it soon...
Yay! What is your definition of "not soon" though? Not "not soon" like it was "it's been over 5 years for me now and Gimp Still doesn't have a size fade brush," I hope? :(
Would it be possible for 0.47, parts of it at least?
Glad people are interested in it, in any case! :D I'll submit the blueprint tomorrow if there are no more revisions to make.
By the way, somewhat relevant: is it possible to auto-generate a skeleton when you are doing calligraphy paths? If it is, then it would make it easier to use as well. When editing the calligraphy path, what appears then is the skeleton, you can edit the form with the tweak tools (I don't think Too many people still edit calligraphy strokes node by node?)
If people then ask the difference between a calligraphy stroke and a pencil-produced vector stroke, the answer is: - the calligraphy stroke allows you to automatically generate a complex stroke shape as you draw - the pencil tool by contrast, only allows you to apply pre-existing ones after you've drawn a simple path