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fluid brush tool is grayed out!!!!!!!!!

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
February 23, 2020
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When going to the Fluid Brush Tool via the 3 dots to add it to a panel there's a caution sign for some reason. When I move it to the panel it is grayed out so I can't select it! How can I enable this tool? I've been watching tutorials on animate and there's ALWAYS something that just doesn't work as demonstrated. There's nothing online on this tool explaining why this is happening from what i can find. You're truly, very frustrated.

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Somone here right now

Participant

Let's say I have a trick.

You can enable it by going in the system repair and go to change boot behavior. Click 7(Ignore GPU vérification).

Open Animate as quick as possible when your on the desktop.

Normally, Adobe Animate won't verify the level fonctionnality and display the fluid brush.

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Niall98A1

Participant

Im absoultely sick to death of Adobe apps doing this sort of thing, I've tried to start a peice of animation in a frame by frame style and have already been confronted with this and audio not scrubbing (yes I've checked the discussion for that to no avail

I've spent time trying to update audio drivers and now i gotta figure out what happened that suddenly the fluid tool doesn't work

All the while Animate really needs some kind of sketching tool it refuses to have

And all photoshop does is {BAAAD WOORD) and glitch out on me

I get a torrent of ads for the Creative cloud which i already pay for

I'm sick of it, I am going to move on from adobe very shortly, I spend to much time troubleshooting and wrestling withh the broken, unintuitive software

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Nick Gioia

Community Expert

I am sorry you are having issues but if you want to sketch in Adobe Animate, here is what I do. Take the classic brush. Then drop the size to like 1 or 3. Then choose red or blue and start sketching away. Or you can sketch something in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Fresco and then bring it to animate to do your clean lines.

Andrew Payson Composer

Participating Frequently

Close and restart animate.

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hs4u

Participating Frequently

This seemed to work, however, the box still looks greyed out. The caution triangle is gone and the tool works, so that is all I need. Thanks for the advice. I have had the program open for a couple days, so that may be why the glitch.

Terry

Joseph Labrecque

Community Expert

There are specific requirements for the Fluid Brush to work:

Hardware requirements
Since this is a GPU based brush, there is a minimum hardware requirement for it to work.

Windows: DirectX 12 compliant GPU (with feature level 12_0 support)

Mac: Metal compliant GPU.

The brush appears as disabled when it is not available for your device.

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/using/fluid-brushes.html

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NeofilmAuthor

Inspiring

Oh, so my $1,300 2080 ti video card isn't good enough? Or is it the 64 gigs of 3600 mhz ram? This is crazy, there's no way this beast of a machine I am using isn't good enough for a brush.

Joseph Labrecque

Community Expert

I didn't say it wasn't good enough - I just mention these are the published specs for that feature. It may be something is disabled on your system or requires an update. I do hope that is helpful either way.

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