QoL improvements for the Path Tool

[Bien Carlos25255883pnrr]

I love the path tool. It's perfect for laying down panel lines and paint stripes, among other things. I do have some ideas to increase its functionality and provide better quality of life for its use:

• Fill mode for closed loop paths for masks and color/height/etc. information.
• The ability to set default options for corner/smooth vertex types, and for the Path tool to remember what was previously selected when creating new paths.
• The ability to select and move all vertices as a group
• The ability to snap to lines and vertices of other paths
• The ability to select brushes (for example, alpha stamps) to be applied on the start and end vertices
• The ability to 'center' the placement of alpha stamps and etc. instead of starting the placement at the beginning of the path. (Red x indicates current behavior, blue x indicates new optional 'centered' placement behavior.)
  
• The ability to alternate rotations for each alpha, brush, and etc on a path. (Orange indicates a 180 degree rotation on stamps from green.)
  
• Angle snapping in selectable increments when holding the shift key.

Thanks for the great work!

[Cyril Dellenbach]

Hi Carlos,

Thank you very much for the interesting feedback!

Most of the suggested features have already been talked about, and some may appear in a close future (no promises). With that being said, I'm not sure we have already talked about a 180 degree rotation between each stamp, and I personally love the idea! I'll make sure the rest of the team sees your message.

Thanks again.

[Bien Carlos25255883pnrr]

Hi, thanks! I'm very much looking forward to these improvements.

My thought process behind the alternating flip option came about when I was using alpha stamps to create displacement and normals for an girder or truss type of structure like the example in my original post. 

Thinking  about it some more though, I think having selectable increments for each new stamp (for example, the first instance of a stamp on a path would have a rotation of 0 degrees, the next stamp would be rotated 5 degrees, then 10, and so on) could make such an option even more flexible.

I would also like to add these two suggestions as well:

• having preset closed loop paths like rectangles, circles, and etc. as in Photoshop or Illustrator
• chamfer and fillet operations to existing vertices