Vector drawing wish list

[Jkoseattle]

I'm doing a lot of vector drawing these days. A couple things I'm just wondering if there are fixes for that I haven't run across:

1. Any way to make the points and segments easier to see? The points are so very tiny, and depending on the color behind it, occasionally impossible to see, same for the edges between them.

2. Whenever I have to transform points, I basically hold down the Alt key permanently to be able to move the bezier curves independently. Any way to make independent bezier curve movement the default, and so maybe I have to hit Alt to move them together?

[synthsin75]

1. Any way to make the points and segments easier to see? The points are so very tiny, and depending on the color behind it, occasionally impossible to see, same for the edges between them.

This tool allows you to pick two colors for things like vector curves and points and toggle between them:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/cor ... r.zip?dl=0

[Greenlaw]

I agree, the size of the lines and points should be scaleable. The current size has been okay for me most of the time but there are some displays I've worked on where I wish I could scale them up by at least double.

Here's what you can do to improve the visibility of the lines and points: The default color is way too light for many practical situations, and I find it's much easier to see the lines and points when they are darker. Try this...

1. Open Preferences and click on the Edit Colors tab.
2. Click on the Object tile. A color picker window will open. In the box next to the # copy and paste in this value: 0A3A36. Click Ok.
3. While you're here, click on the View Output tile. Set the Alpha to 90. Click Ok.
4. Click Ok to close the Preference window.
5. Press Ctrl-J. This enables shading the outer region of the workspace to make it clearer what will appear in your final render.
6. Quit and relaunch Moho. This makes sure the new settings are saved.

The 0A3A36 setting makes the lines and points much darker against the background and against your artwork. This setting isn't really that specific, I just find a darker color works better in most situations. In some situations, it helps to make the color even darker or much lighter, so you might want to change it when necessary, but this setting is a pretty good one most of the time.

Making the outer region darker also makes it easier on the eyes, especially when working at night. By default, Moho makes this region solid black when you use Ctrl-J (Show Output Only,) which I find too extreme and not particularly useful because it completely masks items that are off-camera. With the 90 setting in Alpha, I can still see what's outside of the camera clearly, but you can adjust this lighter or darker to suite what's comfortable to you. Tip: Avoid solid black because that's too dark and harder to see against very dark colors.

These are some the UI tweaks that make Moho easier for me to use on a daily basis, and I have more tips described in this video: https://vimeo.com/335696360

If you don't like any of this, just press Ctrl-J again to disable the option, open Preferences>Edit Colors, and click on the Reset button. That will set things back to the stock Moho settings.

Hope this helps.

[Jkoseattle]

Added both those changes. They're much better now. I didn't know about Ctrl-J but I've been wanting something like that forever and just never got around to looking into it yet. Very nice!