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millionart wrote
Maybe in a few days I will put a new version, remember to update it in time.
Thank you for your purchase, Merry Christmas.
I'm thinking it could do with some work.
When I ran the .exe file (as Administrator) nothing appears to happen, but this appears in Task Manager > Processes
Starting with a ribbon preset, that I made specifically to test Brotate
If I tap and release the B key, I get an immediate 4° rotation
In use, I am guessing you are somehow using Angle Jitter > Direction?
If I move the cursor down while holding down the B key, the brush angle changes perpendicular to the direction of movement.
It's difficult to say if this consistent, because I can't tell how accurate I am moving the brush.
However, the really big problem for me is that in order to rotate the brush, I have to draw an unwanted line — or am I missing something? I realise I can undo that last line with Ctrl Z, but that is not great workflow.
An even bigger problem is that I can't easily zero the rotation. Hitting the B key, as stated in the Readme file, always results in a 4° CCW rotation. What's more, this happens with _ALL_ presets even if I don't want to rotate the brush.
I select a brush preset and use it.
I hit the V key to use the Move tool, and the B key to return to the Brush tool
And what do you know, even before I use it, it has rotated to 4°
So, at the moment, I am regretting my purchase, and unless you tell me anything to improve my user experience, I would like my $10 returned.
millionart wrote
You don't need to draw a real line, just hold down B and move the brush in a certain direction.
The accuracy of the angle depends on the length of the brush you drag, it will calculate the angle between the two points.
OK that's useful, and makes a big difference.
I am not sure if it is new behaviour, but When dragging the cursor with the B key depressed, but not making a stroke, the right click brush menu now flashes momentarily on screen. In fact every time I hit the B key the right click menu flashes on screen
I've tried a bunch of presets, and restarted everything, but the 4° offset issue remains. I've restarted Photoshop with the B key held down to open without third party plugins. Brotate still worked, but LNP did not load. The 4° offset is still happening.
OK the 4° offset is intermittent. If I manually zero brush rotation. Then use the Move tool and come back to the brush tool, about half the time it will stay on zero degrees for the first hit of the B key, but always goes to 4° on subsequent presses of the B key. If it is an issue with another plug-in then the start with Shift should have eliminated it. It _has_ to be able to zero the brush as a minimum requirement.
Any other ideas?
There was no reminder email, but the new version is showing.
I'm still getting the 4° offset when I tap the B key.
I've been using it for a while now (the time stamp on my last post shows an edit, and not when I first put the post up).
In the case of my home made ribbon preset, the offset is not crucial, but there will be times when I absolutely need to reliably return it to 0°. It has also been intermittent with a tap of the B key sometimes returning 90°, but I'm wondering if it thought there was some cursor movement?
Sometimes I lose the preset cursor. I initially thought I'd hit Caps Lock, but that was not on. It does not turn into a point cursor, but rather a do and two very short straight lines. I'll grab a screen shot if it happens again. No crashes so far.
Jack, why don't you drop an email to Guillaume Stordeur at Lazy Nezumi and ask his advice about any coding issues you are having? This is his field of expertise, and he is possibly the world leader in this field. He is a super nice person, and I have a feeling he would respond positively to a request for advice.
I'm also thinking that if you expect people to pay US$10 for Brotate, you need to tart it up a bit. You at least need to give it and installing UI so people know something is happening. Remember... 10,000,000 people have Photoshop CC, plus all the old versions and the buggers who have ripped it off. I guess once the latter crowd get hold of it, it'll be on The Pirate Bay five minutes later, so some more work to do there.
[EDIT] The Task Bar tray icon is a welcome addition
Photoshop version 20.0.1
Windows 10 Pro 1803
System i9-7900X
64Gb RAM
GTX970
millionart wrote
I hope you can help me to do something to solve the bug.
1. Before releasing the B key, loosen the hand holding the mouse or lift the digital pen to prevent the error caused by the jitter. If this does not solve the problem, then step 2
I'm not holding mouse or stylus. Just pressing and releasing the B key which the readme file returns the brush angle to 0°.
millionart wrote
2. Pull two crossed reference lines in the canvas, adjust the mouse to 1px, right click on the intersection (try to keep the coordinates absolutely accurate), summon the brush menu, take a full screen screenshot and send it to me.
This is not 'full' screen. Do you want me to set workspace to Essentials and grab the central monitor? I normally use three screens and custom workspaces.
BTW I lost the cursor again at one point, and Photoshop is playing up again since I re-enabled Brotate. I initially thought it was closing the document I was working on, but I have now realised it is bringing up the Home screen and Start Menu. It has not happened before I installed Brotate, and stopped happening after I removed it from Processes. Now it has happened again since installing 1.1.
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