Tiar is taking in brainstorm-like ideas for how to make assistants very easily accessible in the middle of the work: (some prior discussion
- (scenerio 1) you want to make one single line or a bezier curve in a nice way and it’s done better with assistants, but to do that, you gotta go to the assistant tool, set it up, then move to the brush, enable snapping, then go to the assistant tool again to remove it -> how to make it faster/easier?
- (scenerio 2) you want to draw something in perspective, but you are right now drawing near the horizon, so the assistant tool has a hard time to guess which direction you want to go -> how to temporarily choose a specific assistant or a specific direction (in case of 2pp assistant) in a fast/easy way?
- (scenerio 3) assistants specific for comic panels or different parts of an image
- I have some ideas for that already, but I look for more/different ideas. I am adding them here in case it will help you trigger your imagination (but if you think it will make your imagination limit to my ideas and similar ones, then don’t read it :D I need all crazy and wild ideas now!):
- assistant layers (for different parts of an image)
- local assistants (for different parts of an image) -> mostly done
- actions + buttons on toolbar: (those might be good even if they don’t solve the problem completely)
- enable all assistants
- enable just the one the user clicked on
- remove the one the user clicked on
- loop through assistants or directions (only one assistant enabled at a time)
- quickly add one assistant (a context menu with types; no other options, it uses either default ones or those that are currently used for that type)
- some kind of gizmos on the canvas -> but I have no clue how that could look like or function, some ideas?