well, I bought the ver.10 and while I love the smart bones, smooth joints, eraser and tabs, I am very much disappointed with the paint bucket. It was a bit of a pain ti use it before and I had great hopes for the enhanced tool but now it seems to be completely useless for me. First, though it doesn't require points to be welded, it still requires splines to overlap - which one can hardly see and make sure of when drawing, because of the stroke width. So, while before I had to manually weld points, now I have to manually cross splines AND cut and hide loose end. Doesn't feel like improvement, really.
But the main problem is that when you fill in an enclosed area it creates a new shape of about gazillion points, independent of the enclosing splines. It may be useful sometimes but in general case it is unnecessary and makes editing a nightmare. Also, the shape and the enclosing splines bend and distort differently when attached to bones and break the artwork. Is there any way to make the tool create ONE form consisting of a spline and filled area inside or at least group the shape and the splines automatically so they behave as one when edited? BTW, shape grouping would be a good idea for future upgrades.
Also, perhaps people here see more use of this tool, please share your hints.
