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Taron, I came across Verve a few months ago but have been up and running with it for the past few days as I have upgraded my graphics card and installed windows. I am a big fan of experimental software and this is truly a work of art in and of itself. I am still learning this wonderful medium and it's wide range of variables. I love the idea of the fractal noise brush, however, my tablet does not support tilt, so when I turn it off in the program, the fractal brush will follow the direction of the stroke. This tends to create lots of sharp lines when changing direction rapidly (which creates an interesting abstract effect in its own respect). However, I was wondering, is there possibly a way to reduce or control this "artifact"? Forgive me if this has been covered before as I am new to the forum and Verve itself. Either way, I just want to say that your work is amazing and truly appreciated

[Taron]

Oh, Clay (you may be stuck with that name. Let me know, if you wish me to call you by another! ), I'm thrilled you made the upgrade and get to join in here!
Yeah, you can fix the brush angle, for example, toggle with [a] and rotate it to your liking while holding [shift]+[a] to adjust it!
The artifact of those edges is very difficult to tackle and I keep thinking about ways to deal with it, but those are some very tricky things indeed. Currently it is logical, letting it do what it would do. There may be a way to reduce it by withholding the drawing for a while and computing a different ribbon geometry, but it then may again do something other than one might expect, making it really complicated. However, I still want to think about it and might find a novel solution later on?! ...I'd love to!

Anyway, I hope the [a] tip helps already a bit and, again, WELCOME TO THE FORUM (in action!)! ...can't wait to see your first doodle!

Fantastic! "Shift + A" will work until I can afford a tablet with tilt. Thanks for the solution!

I believe I saw you mentioned plans to make this happen at some point, but when in tiled and tiled mirror mode I would love to be able to paint anywhere on the mirrors, not just the canvas (which can easily get lost along the way while I'm exploring all the wonderful patterns). I'm not sure how this could be achieved, but it would be a truly liberating workflow

[Taron]

Yeah, hahaha, I'd love that, too. I had some trouble with it, because GL didn't quite support it the way I expected it and the combination out of how I designed the brush routines with that extra challenge made me hesitate. I'll still have to figure it out, but eventually it will come!
Some stuff seems so easy, but it really isn't. By itself, like mirroring or repeating a mouse position, pfff, ridiculously easy, but spreading and cutting a set of brush images with individual awareness of where they should go on a canvas, when they're not on it and all that... yeah, sounds probably easy, but no. It's nasty! I'm sure, once I'll have done it, I'll laugh about it, but for now...
Thanks for the reminder, though! ...nono, really!

Ahhhh, I see the issue... that's a tough one! I appreciate the explanation as I have zero understanding of how Verve operates under the hood. Hopefully one day an elegant solution will emerge

Hey Taron, what about to add a context menu for the load button? I mean to show a file history with for example last 10 files for each main extension on the right click (brush images, verve settings, verve projects, color swatches). All items can be shown in one list separated with a name (Brushes | ... Settings | ... Swatches | ... Projects | .... ) or in a tree. What do you think about that? The history can be stored for example in the system registry under HKCU\Software\Verve key..?

[Taron]

You know, I have to find out how to alter the registry and what it takes to get that permission?! ...no clue, yet.
But I do really like the idea!
Alternatively I could add a settings or data file, which could store such information, I imagine?!
So much stuff I still need to learn about the OS and these matters, it's quite shameful.
Good idea, though!

Maybe using a text file is even better idea because we can then alter its content in a text editor. Great! In any case I can send you a snippet of code regarding registry tomorrow. In c++ with win api and in c# with .net. unfortunately i cannot today, i am only with mobile phone now

[Taron]

Cool, thanks, Lemi! Maybe it'll point me into the right direction and I can see how I can hook it up. Win API sounds most promising, though Blitzmax seems a little limited there, too, but we shall see!
YES, I tought about finding a universal solution to use text files for all things like labels and such. That made me ponder again some more about scripting, too, but well... all of this comes later.