[Gimp-user] GIMP and tilt sensitivity

[Alexander C. Gaber]

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> On 7/19/07, Sven Neumann <sven at gimp.org> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 19:40 +0200, Jürgen Hubert wrote:
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> > > Especially interesting is its tilt sensitivity. However, the only tool
> > tilt
> > > sensitivity seems to have an effect on is the Ink tool. Is this
> > accurate or
> > > am I missing something?
> >
> > That is mostly accurate. In theory one could also create a brush pipe
> > that reacts to tilt but I am not sure if this really works. As far as I
> > know no one has tried this yet and it would be very tedious, to say the
> > least.
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> I have personally tried to create such a brush, but the results are
> inconclusive. I use an Intuos 3 tablet and have created (just for test) a 3
> x 3 matrix containing 9 images and 2 ranks, first for x-tilt and second for
> y-tilt. As far as I understood, this would have created one image for:
> negative X tilt, negative Y tilt
> no X tilt, negative Y tilt
> positive X tilt, negative Y tilt
> negative X tilt, no Y tilt
> no X tilt, no Y tilt
> positive X tilt, no Y tilt
> negative X tilt, positive Y tilt
> no X tilt, positive Y tilt
> positive X tilt, positive Y tilt
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> I was not able to consistently paint with the images corresponding to the
> tilt I was using then (i.e. had my stylus inclined top left, which I
> considered negative X tilt, negative Y tilt) in order to paint with the
> image from cell 1. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it used one of the images
> 7, 8 or 9, sometimes it used image 3.
>
> I suspect the code is bugged, but I gave up on that idea and would not
> want to submit a bug report that is not thoroughly tested (I know most
> developers love to discard those :) )
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