Animated brush opacity not getting to 100%

[Radiel]

I’m creating an animated brush but i find that the opacity of the result is not set to 100%
the brush’s opacity is set to 100%
the tips are pure black with no alpha

it is less visible when the colour is black

but when it is white (layer style stroke is enabled) i get this gray colour with the intersection of the figures having more opacity

same problem on a black bg

i tried saving the brush tip as incremential (cause i needed the tips to loop) and as random to test if
the problem was in the first setting but they both showed the same result
any idea what might be causing this? sorry if this was asked before

Krita Version: 5.3.0 (git 148ce5c), Qt version compiled: 5.15.7, loaded: 5.15.7.

[Deevad]

Hey, I found this bug report fascinating. I tried to replicate, but I couldn’t.

Here is what I did:

I started with making my own animated brush, using 3 layers (see layer stack on screenshot under) with a rectangle, a triangle and a circle. Pure black on white, on a 512x512. I then created the brush with the “+ Stamp” in Krita brush settings and on the screenshot, you can see my settings.

Once done, I made a brush with it, removing all dynamics, and tested it over black and white background. And… I can’t replicate.

Quick bundling the preset I did here:

https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/temp/2026-06-11_test_bug_animated_shape.bundle

So, be sure to check twice if you have a dynamic on your preset (texture, flow, etc…) , and check also your animated gih animated brush file to check if the mask really go to black. I’m pretty sure you did because the info and report you made looks like you really pushed and explored the tool. The animated brush you are trying to do looks cool btw.

If you share the file (can be in private, you’ll find my email on the footer of my comic https://www.peppercarrot.com/ ) I can have a look.

[Radiel]

Thank you for the quick response
i tried using your brush presets and it worked!
i have sent you the brushes if you want to take a look at them

The animated brush you are trying to do looks cool btw.

Thank you! I’m trying to make brushes that makes it easier for manga artist to jump from clip studio to krita

[Radiel]

worth noting i created the brush tips separately then saved them as .gih then used the normal import option

[Deevad]

@Radiel

i tried using your brush presets and it worked!

I received it! I’ll test now.

[Deevad]

So, the good news: both of your \*.gih files with the animated brush are fine. And the mask are well done and totally opaque.

The problem are in the preset, and a 90% Flow on both:

Turn that to 100%, overwrite, and it will fix both brushes!
Good luck continuing this cool project.

[Radiel]

Thank you so much!