Can't find brush presets from bundles

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I recently downloaded some brush bundles for krita, from the Resources forum on this site.

Some of the brush tips and patterns used by these bundles are showing up (though not all), but none of the brush presets are showing up, either in the Resource Manager or the Brush Presets menu. These were all downloaded as .bundle files, intended for Krita, and clearly intended to have presets in them. The bundles show up and are active, but not the brushes.

To clarify, all the brush presets from the standard brushes are present, just not the ones I downloaded.

How can I get my brush presets working?

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Can you give us some examples for what bundles you tried (link to the forum topics). That way someone can try to reproduce your issue.

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:slight_smile: Hello @silver-fisher, and welcome to the forum!

As @Takiro already correctly said, without the names of the bundles in question it is nearly impossible to give a correct answer.
Only the standard question, did you already restart Krita twice after importing the bundles to fully update the database?

Michelist

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Right, my apologies.

The brush packs used were:

https: //krita-artists. org/t/glitches-and-distortion-brush-bundle/81682

https: //krita-artists. org/t/glitter-gel-pens/92057

https: //krita-artists. org/t/lur-noises-thats-me-brush-pack/79814

Mameo Pen (by Mameo) recreated for Krita (1/2 unbroken links as I’m new to the forum)

I also tried the following single brush preset to test whether it was a problem with brush presets or bundles, and it also didn’t work:

Cheap Ballpoint pen Brush (2/2 unbroken links)

I’ve broken up some of the links with spaces as I can’t add too many links to a post. They’ll work if the spaces are removed.

And in response to @Michelist : yes, I have restarted Krita several times.

Thank you for your responses.

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I’ve just had a look at the glitter-gel-pens bundle and it all works but has a problem.

The bundle has one brushtip file and that file is called A_eroded-cercle-anim.gih which is a nice working animated brushtip file.
In the brush editor, the three brush presets of that bundle all work and are using the pattern provided by the bundle but they are using a brushtip called A -18 round eroded anim

The reason for this is that the file called A_eroded-cercle-anim.gih has internal data that gives the actual ‘name’ of the animated image as A -18 round eroded anim
This can be seen at the start of the .gih file:

A -18 Round eroded anim
4 ncells:4 cellwidth:200 cellheight:195 step:100 dim:1 cols:1 rows:1 placement:constant rank0:4 sel0:random

You can do this with .gih files. The .gih file is a container that describes an animated image, i.e. the animated image name, the organisation and control inputs and then the individual images content.
This is why I always give .gih files the same name as the internal animated image name :slight_smile:

The difference between brushtip file name and brush ‘identity name’ may be causing a problem for the Manage Resources facility making it unable to display the brush tip in its listing.
That would be easy enough to test by making some simple example animated image files.
If so, this is a bug that should be reported.

For other problems with bundles linked in this topic, there may be similar situations and these should be examined to find out what may be happening.
Sadly, I don’t have time to do that so I hope that someone else can do it.

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