BRUSH TOOL NOT SMOOTH

[RoboSnacks]

I have an issue with my Cintiq not drawing smoothly in Flash. I need to sketch incredibly fast and loose. Flash used to work just fine but now it suddenly began drawing really crummy. I posted some examples of flash as well as Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, and ToonBoom Animate Pro which is another vector graphics tool. I thought the vector graphics may be the issue but that app seems to handle the drawing excellently (now if only it did the other things Flash can do). Here's some examples of how they're looking. It may be hard to tell in these already loose sketches but the performance drop is really a big difference in responsiveness between Flash vs the other apps here:

IMAGE EXAMPLE

http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l613/jedoralive/LINEUP.jpg

SYSTEM SPECS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

2x3 Ghz Dual Core Intel Xeon

8GB RAM

4TB HD

Does anyone know why my cintiq is causing flash to draw so poorly? Occasionally photoshop will also do the same 'crumbly edges' thing? Any idea how to fix it?

[prodigalmaster]

ah right in CS3 I just looked and saw the mooth and straighten tools. What they got rid/messed them up in the new versions? hrm I wonder what else they messed up. Maybe I should just stay with CS3 xD (Adobe, if you're readin this, you lose customers through being stupid and getting rid of or destroying perfectly useful tools, shame on you.)

[RoboSnacks]

I would switch to something like Toonboom, but their interface is so regimented toward specific guidelines it's really hard to be creative unless you plan to only ever pan and zoom your camera. Wow...so much freedom. Also they don't have a nested symbol system that's as deep, developed, or user friendly (Not by a longshot) as Flash has. Flash has SOOOOO much potential, but it's killing me because of the stupid brush tool. It's like I have a Ferrari with a steering wheel made of melting Jell-O. Please fix both the SMOOTHNESS, RESPONSIVENESS, and SENSITIVITY. Please use REAL artists to evaluate it who sketch for a living, not a bunch of hobbyist testers there to draw for the day. Please take your customers seriously.

Slapping "Professional" on the box doesn't make it a professional product. This has been left alone for 10 years since you bought it from Macromedia and began to systematically destroy what worked about it and at least kept it useable. Sorry for the tough Love Adobe, but it's time to get off the couch and get to work. Everyone else has passed you on this and the only people you hurt by ignoring it are us, your customers.

It would also be cool if blur filters & the like didn't grind Flash to a snails pace. Embarrassing.

On a positive note, CS5.5 does crash a lot less than it used to. Now if it only did what I needed while it was running...

[travisbrainerd]

For anyone interested, I've logged a bug on current issues with the brush tool accuracy. Please feel free to add to the discussion.

BUG: Flash straightens curves when drawing quickly

[UDESCO · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

Brush drawing experience has been improved in the latest update - Animate CC 2017.2 (16.2.0.24)

Please try it out and let us know how it works for you.