Bending A Brush

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DK
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Bending A Brush

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Hi.
Just wondering if there was a way to bend a brush along a curve without having any ridgid segmenting. Looking at the rainbow brush for instance, if you bend it along a path it segments. I am trying to make a brush that resembles licorice and need it to bend along the curve without segmenting.

I know there are other ways to do this with image warping and bones etc but I really need to create a brush so that it can be re used easily without the hassle of bones etc.

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D.K
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Re: Bending A Brush

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I'd use Expression. Not everyone's cup of tea, but it will do what you want and it's free. It will also export brushstrokes in Adobe Illustrator format, so as well as being able to tweak things in Expression itself, you can also tweak again (like you did last summer) in Moho when you import it.

Just my two pennies...
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Re: Bending A Brush

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Hi Jahnolci.
Thanks for the heads up on Expression.
I went to download it and the exe said it was a trial??? Are you sure it's free?
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DK wrote:Just wondering if there was a way to bend a brush along a curve without having any ridgid segmenting. ...Thanks
D.K
yeah - I don't like that behaviour either --- but if you make the brush very thin (e.g. 16 px wide in a 128px square brush) and wind the spacing right down to 0 that segmenting is minimised to the point it's just about tolerable.
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Re: Bending A Brush

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Hi hayasidist.
Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a shot but not holding my hopes up.
I was hoping to use a textured image and at that size it might not
carry a lot of the texture I was hoping for.

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Re: Bending A Brush

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DK wrote:Hi Jahnolci.
Thanks for the heads up on Expression.
I went to download it and the exe said it was a trial??? Are you sure it's free?
Cheers
D.K
Yeah, it's free. Microsoft hoovered up this software from Creature House, scratched their corporate heads, then left it to die. Sound familiar? It's still got some great attributes. I actually bought it way back when it was a living thing...
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Re: Bending A Brush

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Clip paint studio does this pretty well too.
Expression is free? huh! :)
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