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Yeah, I fall in love (as so much people here) with AS physics engine (Ay! my own engine! ) as soon as I saw it, but even in the most simple test I really encountered like a little pain have to deal with that layer creation/splitting process aaall the time, so... for curiosity & laziness (I wonder which of this two human nature forces will be stronger) I've just started to implement this functionality that I had never thought be so easy to do!

As you probably still imagine (although I'm not totally sure if "splitter" will be the better word to describe it, the tool creates a new layer for each shape as you go freely painting here and there, so if you are inside a group with Physics activated (or you put'em inside it later), you'll see how each one of they come to "life" and individually reacts as soon as you press play, is that simple! So I don't know why so much text

Of course the best thing of use the Scatter Brush for this, is you get all his advantages at once! Like shape/color variations, pen pressure (where available), freely tracing and, of course, the possibility of use your own clipboarded objects, thanks to all that, it practically becomes into a new physicable Particle engine ...Plus! With the new layer management possibilities, you can select all of them (that surely won't be a few), and delete, move, etc in a jiffy, THANKS Ra!

Well, I hope you like it! And although It's a very rough/young version, I think that you can overwrite the original one (previous backup just in case, of course...) without any problem, or I hope so... Here it is the thing!:

lm_scatterbrush.zip


...Enjoy!
Ramón López.

You beat me to it!

I already have a layer splitter script I just haven't had time to upload.

Mine works a single layer and splits all the shapes into separate layers and numbers the name of the layer after the original name.

-vern

Jeje, relax! Cause, anyway (although related), I think you script still has another kind of use (if it has nothing to do with Scatter Brush as I deduce?) and it still will be useful and time saver for other kind of tasks, cause always will be more quick and comfortable to draw all the elements in only one layer and then split it automatically as yours provide, so... I'm (and sure others) still waiting and interested on it

Well I think we can see it like a different tools for almost same purposes; but yours can be used for a more general tasks and hand made/controlled way of work, and "mine" (quoted cause I only add that little (but magic ) part of the code), to get more instantaneous and (maybe) expressive way of work, with the functionality directly integrated into one of the most expressive tools, to get it go hand in had with one of the most (with all due respect to Curve Profile) incredible new features.

So, same finality (with more possible uses in your case, BTW ) but different "concept" (that is what I liked more ), I think.


Greetings and, of course, thanks to continue developing so useful thiiings!
Ramón López.

Thanks for sharing. According to your descriptiont it seems to be very useful. I will test it in the evening.

Nice addition, Ramón
thanks

Thanks Ramon, great script!
This "splitter" function is great if it also could be used as a stand alone function.

Ulrik

Oh! Feedbacks! I love'em!!! So thank youUu guys

Yeah, the thing I like most about this little addition was, first, its easy & quick implementation (even for me!) and then the simplicity of the concept and use, that is as I said, you have a Physigroup with (preferably) a "ground" and you only have to "paint" and press Play/Spacebar to see how your traces star to fall and react individually! Jeje, so it's ugly I say it, but I love this kind of simple functionalities

ulrik wrote:This "splitter" function is great if it also could be used as a stand alone function.

Jeje, I think I though it! But rapidly I preferred to save me all that still written code , anyway, for a more "after work" splitting... we'll always have (I hope) the heyvern one!

BTW, surely you still know it, but due to the high number of generated layers (although this is all up to you), don't forget that after the first playback (once the keys you need have been generated) you can activate "Use baked physics (advanced?)" check box inside in the Physics tab of group layer to avoid REcalculation when unnecessary! This way Physics experience become hundreds of times more enjoyable! But, BEWARE!!! It's "advanced"

Great, thanks for explaining this feature. I just wondered about this checkbox and I could not find it in the manual. Cool thing ... this ... "advanced" feature, hehe.

Ramón López wrote:BTW, surely you still know it, but due to the high number of generated layers (although this is all up to you), don't forget that after the first playback (once the keys you need have been generated) you can activate "Use baked physics (advanced?)" check box inside in the Physics tab of group layer to avoid REcalculation when unnecessary! This way Physics experience become hundreds of times more enjoyable! But, BEWARE!!! It's "advanced"

Thanks for explaining that checkbox!

Ramón López wrote: But, BEWARE!!! It's "advanced"

LMAO.