Whenever I draw/brush a second IMM curve on a surface it removes my last one drawn. How do you draw multi IMM curves without it deleting your last drawn curve?
You have great timing, I want to know the same thing and here you are asking!
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messing around I found if you go under the curve options you can press snapshot and it will keep it there. You can also delete the curve and it will stay and you can draw a new one. I hope this is what you are supposed to do. If anyone can verify it would help.
You can do one of two things:
A. Click on the main mesh. This will delete the current curve (leaving its mesh) so you can then draw another.
B. You can snapshot the curve by pressing 5 on the keyboard (or Stroke>Curve Functions>Snapshot). This makes a copy of the curve mesh without deleting the curve. You can move the cursor over the curve (so that the cursor becomes blue) and then click+drag the curve to a new position.
Thanks Marcus, but those are sort of part or two parts of the problem.
I do use 5 or snapshot (B) to make new ones (And that is fun and very cool) but that is not always what I want to do, I simply want to “drop” the one I just made and make another somewhere else and this brings us to A, if I try to do that the first one goes away.
I have found that even after working with other tools the last curve is active and no mater what I do it will not let go, this forces me to do things that I do not want to do which is an odd problem: I have to hit 5 and look for somewhere to put an unwanted bit of detail where I can use smooth and flatten or something to make it go away, and that just so I can make another curve half the time.
Am I making sense?
Cheers!
Mealea
EDIT: I just tried it slightly different and perhaps followed your instructions a little closer, clicking DOES seem to drop the curve, I think I must have been clicking and dragging, I was using the Wacom tablet and its hard to tell if you are clicking or dragging with that… this time I used the mouse and it worked flawlessly, THANK YOU!
Awesome. Works great. Thanks for your help.
Mealea,
If you find that clicking to delete the curve is awkward then you could assign a hotkey to the Stroke>Curve Functions>Delete button and use that instead.
Actually it works great if I am careful with the pen, with the mouse its easy, but thank you Marcus!
You can always “undo” a misplaced placed curve stroke too.
hi,
i am having the same problem, so thanks for this discussion!
i noticed that the curve multi tube brush does exactly what is asked for in this thread; so my question: which button/setting does enable the mutli tube brush to allow the user to paint as many curves/tubes as he/she wants without having to snapshot the curve/tube?
so if it would be possible to enable that feature for other/custom brushes, that would do the trick, wouldn´t it?
cheers m
I agree a curve multi setting for custom brushes would be great. I would also appreciate a twist option for curve brushes like the one for the Spiral3d tool.