Ok am I missing something here? (tS5)

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Post by Khai // Mar 22, 2008, 7:31am

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I open a drawpanel to draw a curve.


whereever I click, it only starts the curve in the absolute center of the drawpanel.


I can click the top right corner... and bam. the point is in the center of the panel no where near where I clicked.


I've got this behaviour on 2 systems I've tried (Athlon X2 64, ATI 1300, Sempron 2400 Geforce4 4800ti bit running XP Pro SR2).


is this how it's supposed to work or is this a bug or settings? right now, it's making drawing curves pretty useless.

Post by splinters // Mar 22, 2008, 7:38am

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A long shot (haven't used tS5 for a long time) but is grid snap turned on at all?

Post by Khai // Mar 22, 2008, 7:41am

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nope..

just figured it out I think.. I've been clicking and expecting the point to go where I've clicked.


turns out I need to click, hold and then drag the point to where I want it.


that can't be right.. can it?

Post by spacekdet // Mar 22, 2008, 8:47am

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I usually skip making the Panel and just start drawing. You'll get a Panel automatically when you exit curve draw mode.

On the other hand, I don't get the 'always centered when you start' problem here if I begin with a blank DrawPanel...
I'll keep fiddling and see if I can replicate it.

What tool are you using to to make the curve?
Add Curve?
Freehand?
Circle drawn by...?

Post by Khai // Mar 22, 2008, 10:20am

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it's happening with the freehand curve... the others you need to drag out so it seems they are not affected...

Post by spacekdet // Mar 22, 2008, 12:13pm

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I don't know why, but this sounds vaguely familiar.
It seems I've run into this problem somewhere, but it's been a long time and I don't remember the details.

I've just tried it in my copy of tS5 and I don't see this behavior... <shrugs>... try opening a top view or 3/4 view, then click on Draw Curve w/o creating a DrawPanel first. You should be able to draw the curve beginning anywhere.

The previous suggestion of making sure Grid Mode is off is worth checking, also.

If all else fails, save your config to a Library and then nuke your truespace.cfg file.
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