2009/12/30 Steren <steren.giannini@...400...>:
Hi, I commited a first iteration of the spray toolbar refactoring. There is not yet the dropdown list to choose the distribution type. I will do it when I find time in the next weeks. Could you test it and make some feedback ?
Thank you! Here are my thoughts:
- Shouldn't Amount, Rotation, and Scale be made sliders as well, not spinboxes? They all range from 0 to 100, which suggests approximateness, with sliders more convenient for fast changes.
- The section with Rotation and Scale needs some visible label indicating variation. Perhaps we should add a bold "Random:" before them as a label for the whole section.
- I still do not understand "Scatter". In my experiments, when Focus=0, varying Scatter from 0 to 100 just expands the trace (but not to the full width of the brush), but with Focus=100, Scatter=0 gives a strange result of throwing objects mostly at the edge of the brush, and Scatter=100 is a bit more uniform. This is rather counterintuitive. What I suggest is having a single Focus slider, with the following behavior:
-- Focus=100: no scattering, everything is at the centerline
-- Focus=0: uniformly distributed across the entire brush, no concentration
-- Focus at midvalue: a bell-shaped distribution focused at the centerline, of smoothly varying concentration
What do others think?