Custom Brush will take the visual of your animation to a level never achieved before. It allows you to create customizable vector brushes, loaded directly from the stage.

This Plugin has a tool to work with. Learn how to work with tools.

Group List

You can organize your brushes in groups. Select 'All Brushes' to load all your groups and brushes or just select the desired group.

Creating a New Group

Click on the + button to create a new group, rename it if you want by typing a new group name in the grup list box and hitting Enter.

Deleting a Group

	Click on the options button.
	Click on the trash button.

Import/Export Brushes

In order to share your brushes with someone, all you have to do is to export your brushes from your computer and import them in another computer.

Exporting Your Brushes

	Click on the options button.
	Click on the export brushes button.
	Paste a full path to a folder, i.e. "C:/Users/Alan/Desktop/Brushes" and click on Export Brushes button.

Importing Your Brushes

	Click on the options button.
	Click on the import brushes button.
	Paste a full path to a folder containing your brushes, i.e. "C:/Users/Alan/Desktop/Brushes" and click on Import Brushes button.

Brush List

Clicking on the brush thumbnail will open your brush list for the selected group. By rolling the mouse over the brush you will see three buttons, delete, edit and replace. On the right side you will see a handle (if 'All Brushes' is selected, you won't see this handle).

	Delete button will delete your brush. Shift+Click to delete without a confirmation box.
	Edit button will drop your brush on the stage for editing.
	Replace button will replace the brush by the selected object on the stage. Shift+Click to replace without a confirmation box.
	Drag up or down to organize the order of your brushes in the list.

TIP: In order to change a brush shape, click on the Edit button and the brush will be drop on the stage. Change it the way you want. Select the whole shape and click on the Replace button.

Brush Modes

There are six different modes you can chose.

Stretch Along
	Stretches the brush along the stroke.
Tile Repeat
	Draws the brush repeating along the stroke. Prefer to use Fast Quality when working in this mode.
Ping Pong
	Draws the brush bouncing back and forth along the stroke. Prefer to use Fast Quality when working in this mode.
Once/Height
	Draws the brush once per stroke, respecting the proportion of the stroke height.
Once/Length
	Draws the brush once per stroke, respecting the proportion of the stroke length.
Squash Stretch
	Squash/Stretches your brush along the stroke based on the stroke height.

Draw Contour

Draws a countour around the brush.

Object Drawing

Turn the object drawing mode on and each stroke will be placed as an object drawing. It's the same as you turn it on the Flash Tools Panel.

Randomize Brushes

Randomize Brushes will change your selected brush randomically in your group for each stroke.
TIP: Create a couple of look alike brushes in a group and turn Randomize Brushes ON. You'll get more natural/less repetitive strokes!

Use Individual Settings

This will store/load the last settings for each brush such as quality, height and orientation.

Brush Settings

Quality

Fast: Draw your brush as quickly as possible.
Medium: Draw your brush quickly and you will still be able to optimize or relax your stroke.
Best: Draw your brush at the best quality possible, but it is slower.

Height

Changes the brush stroke height.
Click on the Height button to set the height as the current selected brush was created.

Optimize

Reduces the brush vertices.

Smooth

Smooth the stroke sharp angles.

Relax

Relax your brush shape.
Check Keep Boundary Points Fixed to keep the original vertices fixed.

Orientation

Forces your brush to be oriented to the desired direction.
Click on the Orientation button o let it be automatically oriented .

Apply to Line

Apply your custom brush to an existing line.
You can select a frame range or just some lines on the stage.

The line must be a shape object, symbols or groups are ignored.
TIP: You'll achieve better results using lines as Object Drawings!

Edit Line

Edit the line of your stroke after you already placed it on stage either using the Custom Brush Tool or the button Apply to Line.
If you change the shape of the stroke in any way, even if you move only one vertice, the stored data will be gone and you won't be able to edit that stroke anymore.
TIP: Prefer to use the strokes as Object Drawings.

Show Tool Tips

Show a tool tip when rolling the mouse over the plugin.

TIP: You can set a hot key to the Apply to Line and Edit Line buttons. Learn how to assign a hotkey to those buttons.