Keep start/end of pencil line round

Harmony Harmony General Discussion
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Hello all,

I’m trying to find a setting to keep my pencil lines round at the start and the end after cutting or deleting point. Now, every time I do so end and start are put to flat. Readjusting the roundness each time…

Best,
Pieter

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Hi Pieter,

when you use the cutter tool you can choose the option ‘Tip style: round’ in the ‘Cutter Tool Options’.

But, this option indeed does not seem to be available for the in the ‘Contour Editor Options’ which are displayed when you are dealing with points.
I agree with you that this would speed up work a lot.

I also think that it would already be helpful if the ‘Start’, ‘End’, and ‘Join’ buttons of the ‘Line Tool Properties’ were available within the ‘Contour Editor Options’.

Best regards,

stefman

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Hi stefman,

Thanks for your reply, it helps me a lot.
I agree with you on the contour editor though…

All the best,
Pieter

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Another solution would be if the ‘Start’, ‘End’ and ‘Join’ properties could be set via scripting.
But, I didn’t find the right command for that?

Dear Toon Boom team, can you help, please?

Best regards,

stefman

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I agree that having this option in the contour editor could be a great asset, you should pitch the suggestion under our Feature Request section! :slight_smile:

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Hi Geneviève,

OK, I’ll get a hair cut, put on a new shirt and prepare myself for the pitch. :slight_smile:

But, in the meantime I’m trying to achieve the same result via scripting.

I tried:
ToolProperties.setPencilTipMode(“ROUND_TIP”) and ToolProperties.setInkJoinMode(“ROUND_TIP”) which both don’t have any effect on the selected line even if it was selected with the ‘Select Tool’.

I wonder if the required command could be found among the actions that can be launched via action.perform(“doSomeThing()”).

Do you know if there is a list of all the actions that can be performed via that function?

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Yes, using this value applies it to the tool action (specifically when a pencil line gets cut by a tool)…

From the documentation:
set the pencil tip shape used by the eraser, cutter, and ink tools whenever an existing pencil line gets split by the tool.

Parameters:
pencilTip can have one of the following values: “ROUND_TIP”, “FLAT_TIP” or “BEVEL_TIP”.

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Hi rkriz,

thank you for your reply.

Yes, ToolProperties.setPencilTipMode(“ROUND_TIP”)</code/> and ToolProperties.setInkJoinMode(“ROUND_TIP”) </code/> set the tool properties defining what tip shape will be created at the next time the tool will be used.

That what I would like to do is select a vector point with the ‘Contour Editor’ and run the script to change its tip shape simulating the ‘Start’, ‘End’ and ‘Join’ buttons available within the ‘Pencil Editor Options’.
http://docs.toonboom.com/help/harmony-14/premium/Resources/Images/HAR/Stage/Character_Design/Select_Tool/HAR11_Select_Tool_006_PEncilLineStyle.png

That’s why I think that if this command exists it would rather be an action run via action.perform(“onActionDoSomeThing()”).

Best regards

P.S. In the meantime I digged through all the XML files. But, I unfortunately didn’t find the actions corresonding to these 3 pencil line tip mode buttons.
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Hey guys!

Is this topic still alive? :slight_smile:

I am rigging my character now and realized I would really need to set something like a toggle to make all the lines (or all that I select) start-end-join rounded. It’s so annoying when i delete one of the bezier point the line becomes flat ended.

I looked through this topic here, found there are some script pieces… But I am kinda a newbie in scripting, so could someone please tell me step by step, how could I create such a toggle or at least play this script when I need it?

I know it’s a lot to explain to me, but I really couldn’t find any info on this in the net.

Thank you!