Creating custom Tool

[Madman07]

Hi.

 

Is it possible to create custom Tool? Like a brush, but not an effect? 

I need to do a FlowMap painter brush. Such brush would paint a color that depends only on movement direction. It would also depend on a movement speed (as long as it's easy to do so).

I'm already developing an .NET + OGL application that could do that, but since I'm at 25% done, I figured out that I could use Paint.Net to make it better and more popular. 

 

Thanks in advance,

Madman07

[pyrochild]

You can't integrate it into the tool menu, but you can make an effect like the Smudge, Liquify, or Custom Brushes plugins that create their own temporary canvas.

[Madman07]

Oh that's sad there's no way to add custom tool.

Well, it doesn't help me since flow map reuqire a draw vector to determine colours...

 

Thanks for help!

I believe that thread can be closed.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

It would be doable in the form that pyrochild said. Have a llook at the Smudge plugin or Liquify to see how it could be done and what the working surface might look like.

[Madman07]

But, it don't let you work with multiple layers probably? Like paint flow-map on layer 0 but have a half-visible layer 1 to see where map needs to be painted.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

No it won't.  Effects and the pseudo tools only have access to the active layer.