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[Dennis Miller]

I'd like to modify this paint preset so that it looks more like a stroke is being gradually applied to the canvas, one by one, rather than having the entire stroke just "pop" onto the screen fully formed. Anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish that? I want it to look like the canvas is actually being painted.. thanks for the help. -dennis

thick.zip

[liveart]

Dennis, I tried a few experiments. There are no solutions that will slow the paint down as to look like it would have in v2- maybe using a very old machine. But here is what I have for you. In the Miscellaneous menu set the "throttle speed" to .5 sec. This will slow down the application between strokes. Next, the best way to get a stroke to paint as a stroke is to use the paint paths command. For the effect that I believe you are looking for it works best to hand record the strokes and re-play with cmd-K

[liveart]

another option is to use particle paint--a few ideas in this folder.

Dennis folder.zip

[Synthetik]

Making edits that lead to more computation for drawing each brush nib will slow down the painting speed. Cutting down the path application spacing will slow down drawing. Making the brush size larger, or switching to a multi-pen mode preset with a lot of multi-pen nibs can also slow things down. Or using brush load features that are computationally intensive. The Geodesic Source brush option for the Brush Type can also be configured to be pretty computationally intensive. So those would be various things to try.

Vector paint presets in general tend to run much faster than pure raster ones. 

[Dennis Miller]

Sorry for the lat reply ... That still runs a little fast on my machine (a variable, no doubt) but I will throttle further . Thanks very much for the suggestion.

D.

[Synthetik]

I ran a few quick experiments, and you can pretty easily edit your thick paint preset to slow it down as much as you want to.

First, set the path application control panel spacing to 1.

This will slow down the painting, but let's assume you want to slow things down even more. You can do that by changing the  pen mode so that multiple paint nibs are drawn at each nib position (as opposed to only one).

Now, set the pen mode control panel pen mode to interactive multi-pen.

Then, set the Multipen Mode control panel Spread Max to 0.

Then, increase the Multipen Mode control panel # Nib accordingly. I tried 20, and it slows the painting down so you see the stroke draw fairly slowly. And increasing the # Nib will slow things down even more. So that should allow you to dial in the amount of slowness you want while still maintaining the relative characteristics of the paint style.

Note that because the Spread Max is 0, the multi-pen paint nibs overdraw on top of each other.