On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Simon Budig wrote: > Hi all. > > I am currently working on some tweaks to the generated brushes (the > brushes you can configure interactively). In Gimp CVS you can > generate brushes like these: > http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/files/generated-brushes.png > > Note, that currently the new functionality does not affect existing > generated brushes. However, when I fiddeled with this stuff I got the > impression, that the hardness-parameter should be a bit more extendable > to the soft side of the brush - IMHO hardness 0.0 is not yet soft > enough. > > I have a patch sitting here, that makes more soft brushes possible, but > since this patch still maps the range from 0 to 1 the hardness for > existing generated brushes would effectively be reduced, i.e. existing > brushes will look softer when loaded with the next release of the GIMP. > > Do you think this is acceptable? Note that the current hardness could > be reached easily by dragging the slider a bit upwards again. Is it possible to redo your logic so that the the old hardness scale is used, but it's possible to have negative hardness? Alternatively, we could use a fileformat versioning system to keep backwards compatibilty. Rockwalrus
