The latter just gives you the values (which was what I wanted) while the former turns myVectorPoint into an instance (or whatever it's called) of mouseEvent.vec which means that myVectorPoint will keep jumping to the mouse position even when you don't want it to.
selgin wrote:Wow, this tool really should replace the current perspective points tool.
Actually Perspective points and this tool will give you slightly different results. Perspective points has "real" perspective calculated according to a virtual camera.
Comparison:
As you can see, Perspective points looks more like in real life.
But it's a pain trying to line up points to a 2D image with the Perspective points tool, and photo realistic representations are not always desirable.
you have just explained something that had been confusing me for ages .... sometimes the "cleaner" way worked (or at least seemed to!) and sometimes it didn't....
Please forgive for resurrecting this old thread, but i'm just not 'getting' how this tool is supposed to work? The animated gif pic, above, shows text being manipulated by the ds distort script tool, and NOT a vector shape, but vector shapes is the only thing this tool affects for me. It's greyed out whenever i create a new text layer so i can't use it to affect the text. What am i missing here? Thanks a million --- this tool would be awesome to use on text!
biblesinger wrote:Please forgive for resurrecting this old thread, but i'm just not 'getting' how this tool is supposed to work? The animated gif pic, above, shows text being manipulated by the ds distort script tool, and NOT a vector shape, but vector shapes is the only thing this tool affects for me. It's greyed out whenever i create a new text layer so i can't use it to affect the text. What am i missing here? Thanks a million --- this tool would be awesome to use on text!
Tim
When creating text there is a check box to Create Text Layer. A text layer doesn't have points, and the text can be edited after you created it. If you uncheck that box when creating your text, the outlines of the text you type are converted to vector points. If you use that option the text can not be edited. This is the same as "Create Outlines" of text or a text layer in a program like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.
This checkbox is grayed out if the selected layer is NOT a vector layer. In order to create vector text you have to have a vector layer created and selected first. This box is usually checked by default.
Thanks heyvern for the help. Perfect! That did it.
Ya know, i looked at those two check boxes, just over the 'scale' slider, and missed them both times (i'm 56, so there ya go).
I've also been an apprentice to some of your vids so thanks for that as well. I'll give back to the forum after i
go intermediate then advanced. Thanks again..
I use tool a lot, especially on our current project. But i noticed it doesn't work when onionskinnig is on. The points snap back to their fAnimPos on mouse release. I have the same problem on my multi-layer magnet tool. If you or anybody else know how to fix it, it would be very welcome.