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Username: Yacc
Post Date: 2025-08-28 04:42:35

In the Tools panel, they're shown as separate tools, but when I tried them out, they didn’t feel all that different. I feel like, based on their settings and features, they can be grouped into roughly three types: Oils & Acrylics (oily, can be smudged); Watercolors and Inks (watery, can spread); and Pencils, Pastels, Markers, and Airbrushes (kind of like dry powder being sprayed). In other words, watercolor brushes and ink brushes have no real difference in their settings and features—you can create brushes that are exactly the same. Not sure if my understanding is correct—what do you think? [IMG]https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/manual/latest/interface/panel-tools/media/panel.jpg[/IMG]

Username: Melampode
Post Date: 2025-08-28 11:21:39

I agree that it would be cool to have documentation concisely listing the specific differences and/or unique properties of each tool type! I have been able to identify some unique features for most of them, but a few I'm still uncertain about their differences (if there are any). From my observations: [LIST] [*]Oils & Acrylics: [LIST] [*]include the ability to add thick (or thin, or no) impasto texture (which uses lighting physics to create shadows and highlights) [*]enable metallic layer effects (when impasto is present) [*]include an oiliness slider [*]have toggles for multicolor and dirty brush [/LIST] [*]Express oils: [LIST] [*]lack the impasto, metallic effects, and the multicolor/dirty brush toggles [*]include the oiliness slider [/LIST] [*]Watercolors: [LIST] [*]include a water slider (which enables the water physics, including paint drips and granulation) [*]let you choose between transparent/semi-transparent/opaque modes (which control how transparency affects layered colors, imitating things like glazing vs. gouache) [/LIST] [*]Inks: [LIST] [*]lack the transparency modes and granulation effects [*]include the water slider and paint drips [*]when you layer brush strokes on top of each other, it darkens the pigment where they overlap on the same layer (similar to using "multiply" on either a layer blending mode, or with the brush setting "paint -> rendering -> paint blending") [/LIST] [*]The wet tools (above) also all include the "paint and mix" paint mode, while the dry tools (below) do not. [*]The dry tools also lack any built-in physics (water or impasto), but can still be affected by the Water tool (which of course affects the wet tools). [*]Markers: [LIST] [*]similar to Inks, in that layering brush strokes causes the pigment to darken (though the effect is less pronounced, allowing more layering before reaching the same degree of darkening) [/LIST] [*]I have not personally been able to discern a difference between the available settings nor behavior of the Pencils, Pastels, and Airbrush. The separate categories may just be for organizational purposes, to make it easier to find brushes that are built to look or behave like traditional tools associated with their respective category. (But if someone has figured out any differences, please do let me know! I've been curious about it for ages.) [/LIST] So, for example: if you were to copy a Watercolor brush into the Ink section, you would lose the granulation, and the way the brush strokes layer over each other would look different. Or, if you copied an Airbrush into the Oil section, you could get a brush that looks like it sprays thick particles of paint. (But, as far as I've noticed, copying an Airbrush into the Pastels section would behave the same.) For more details on what specific settings do, you can check through the respective tool settings' properties in the [URL='https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/manual/latest/interface/panel-properties/']manual[/URL].

Username: Yacc
Post Date: 2025-08-29 15:53:04

[QUOTE="Melampode, post: 28306, member: 123697"] I agree that it would be cool to have documentation concisely listing the specific differences and/or unique properties of each tool type! I have been able to identify some unique features for most of them, but a few I'm still uncertain about their differences (if there are any). From my observations: [LIST] [*]Oils & Acrylics: [LIST] [*]include the ability to add thick (or thin, or no) impasto texture (which uses lighting physics to create shadows and highlights) [*]enable metallic layer effects (when impasto is present) [*]include an oiliness slider [*]have toggles for multicolor and dirty brush [/LIST] [*]Express oils: [LIST] [*]lack the impasto, metallic effects, and the multicolor/dirty brush toggles [*]include the oiliness slider [/LIST] [*]Watercolors: [LIST] [*]include a water slider (which enables the water physics, including paint drips and granulation) [*]let you choose between transparent/semi-transparent/opaque modes (which control how transparency affects layered colors, imitating things like glazing vs. gouache) [/LIST] [*]Inks: [LIST] [*]lack the transparency modes and granulation effects [*]include the water slider and paint drips [*]when you layer brush strokes on top of each other, it darkens the pigment where they overlap on the same layer (similar to using "multiply" on either a layer blending mode, or with the brush setting "paint -> rendering -> paint blending") [/LIST] [*]The wet tools (above) also all include the "paint and mix" paint mode, while the dry tools (below) do not. [*]The dry tools also lack any built-in physics (water or impasto), but can still be affected by the Water tool (which of course affects the wet tools). [*]Markers: [LIST] [*]similar to Inks, in that layering brush strokes causes the pigment to darken (though the effect is less pronounced, allowing more layering before reaching the same degree of darkening) [/LIST] [*]I have not personally been able to discern a difference between the available settings nor behavior of the Pencils, Pastels, and Airbrush. The separate categories may just be for organizational purposes, to make it easier to find brushes that are built to look or behave like traditional tools associated with their respective category. (But if someone has figured out any differences, please do let me know! I've been curious about it for ages.) [/LIST] So, for example: if you were to copy a Watercolor brush into the Ink section, you would lose the granulation, and the way the brush strokes layer over each other would look different. Or, if you copied an Airbrush into the Oil section, you could get a brush that looks like it sprays thick particles of paint. (But, as far as I've noticed, copying an Airbrush into the Pastels section would behave the same.) For more details on what specific settings do, you can check through the respective tool settings' properties in the [URL='https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/manual/latest/interface/panel-properties/']manual[/URL]. [/QUOTE] Awesome! You’ve got such a detailed and deep understanding of painting tools—that’s super helpful for me. Really appreciate it!