I want to make one like this BUT, I would like to maintain the brush tile in their original dimension and proportions, while these tiles are stretched!
I'm using path start regionization. In combination with region fill as brush pen mode. So an outline path for each region is used to generate a region fill via the region fill as brush pen.
The way region fill as brush pen mode works, the source brush is auto sized to fill the entire region for each region created by the path start regionization process. Hence the stretching.
One approach you could try would be to use alpha masking for your movie brush. So each frame would be alpha masked within a larger generic frame size (chosen so that all of your different alpha masked images could fit in side of it).
You' also have to try tiling or laying down your individual blocks with single paint nibs. Using normal painting rather than region fill as brush pen mode. So with the max path length in the path shape control panel set to 1. Using something like interactive pen mode.
Upcoming V5 has some new features that will give you more options for this kind of thing.
I guess one question i have for you. Would you want your brush tile images to exactly fit in a layout pattern somewhat like above, or would you be ok if they were some subset of the original brush image? So the brush images would be cropped to make them fit.
Obviously arbitrary aspect ratio images are never going to exactly fit in the regular sub-tiling layout pattern shown above.
Hi John, excuse me for my late about this your question above:
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"I guess one question i have for you. Would you want your brush tile images to exactly fit in a layout pattern somewhat like above, or would you be ok if they were some subset of the original brush image? So the brush images would be cropped to make them fit."
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I send you my work to explain what I need to have. If you see the images I've circled in red, you can note that they have different proportions, they are stratched and don't maintain the original and real proportion. How can I control this value?
The way the paint synthesizer fills a region when using using region fill as brush or auto region fill as brush pen modes, the entire region being filled is considered by the paint synthesizer to be one brush nib. So, if you are using an image or movie or image folder brush, the image being painted is scaled to fill the boundary of the temporary brush nib that defines the region shape.
That is what you are seeing in the above example. The image gets scaled to map into the rectangular boundary of each individual brush nib that defines the region. And the aspect ratio can change when that scaling mapping is occuring.
I can think about adding something that would let you choose if the aspect ratio was maintained or not. At the expense of introducing some cropping if it was maintained.
I've used Region fill as brush, and I know it's normal that the aspect ratio of images can change on different single nib, but I'd like to get a cutted image inside the single nib and not stretched image. I don't know if it's clear my question, my english is not so good :)
I've read again your suggestion and I'll try to follow this way:
You' also have to try tiling or laying down your individual blocks with single paint nibs. Using normal painting rather than region fill as brush pen mode. So with the max path length in the path shape control panel set to 1. Using something like interactive pen mode.
Thank you
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Hi John,
how you doing?
I would ask you one thing about this Mosaic.
I want to make one like this BUT, I would like to maintain the brush tile in their original dimension and proportions, while these tiles are stretched!
Thank you!!
bye
Simone
AH, my question:
how can I do it? :-)
S
I'm using path start regionization. In combination with region fill as brush pen mode. So an outline path for each region is used to generate a region fill via the region fill as brush pen.
The way region fill as brush pen mode works, the source brush is auto sized to fill the entire region for each region created by the path start regionization process. Hence the stretching.
One approach you could try would be to use alpha masking for your movie brush. So each frame would be alpha masked within a larger generic frame size (chosen so that all of your different alpha masked images could fit in side of it).
You' also have to try tiling or laying down your individual blocks with single paint nibs. Using normal painting rather than region fill as brush pen mode. So with the max path length in the path shape control panel set to 1. Using something like interactive pen mode.
Upcoming V5 has some new features that will give you more options for this kind of thing.
I guess one question i have for you. Would you want your brush tile images to exactly fit in a layout pattern somewhat like above, or would you be ok if they were some subset of the original brush image? So the brush images would be cropped to make them fit.
Obviously arbitrary aspect ratio images are never going to exactly fit in the regular sub-tiling layout pattern shown above.
I'm interested to every solution you told about it :)
Thank you
Here's a link to an old tutorial on masked movie brushes.
Hi John,
excuse me for my late about this your question above:
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"I guess one question i have for you. Would you want your brush tile images to exactly fit in a layout pattern somewhat like above, or would you be ok if they were some subset of the original brush image? So the brush images would be cropped to make them fit."
---------------
I send you my work to explain what I need to have.
If you see the images I've circled in red, you can note that they have different proportions, they are stratched and don't maintain the original and real proportion.
How can I control this value?
Thank you!
Simone
The way the paint synthesizer fills a region when using using region fill as brush or auto region fill as brush pen modes, the entire region being filled is considered by the paint synthesizer to be one brush nib. So, if you are using an image or movie or image folder brush, the image being painted is scaled to fill the boundary of the temporary brush nib that defines the region shape.
That is what you are seeing in the above example. The image gets scaled to map into the rectangular boundary of each individual brush nib that defines the region. And the aspect ratio can change when that scaling mapping is occuring.
I can think about adding something that would let you choose if the aspect ratio was maintained or not. At the expense of introducing some cropping if it was maintained.
You' also have to try tiling or laying down your individual blocks with single paint nibs. Using normal painting rather than region fill as brush pen mode. So with the max path length in the path shape control panel set to 1. Using something like interactive pen mode.
Thank you