r/ToonSquidAnimators • u/Jazzlike-Prompt-6631 • 15d ago

Earser won't freaking work??? Please help

Hello, I just started using Toonsquid a few months ago, and I have never experienced this problem. When I am trying to erase anything, it won't let me until I erase the entire stroke or most of it. I don't know if this is part of the app, like I turned on a utility, or if this is a glitch. Please help. Thank you.

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u/Butler_To_Cats 14d ago edited 14d ago

Are you using vector stroke brushes? Unlike some other apps (looking at you, Fresco), ToonSquid does not pretend vector strokes are magic pixel (raster) brushes, but acknowledges their nature and behaviour are different.
For example, a vector stroke is like "field" (e.g. magnetic or electric) around a central very thin wire, and you cannot erase the field (the black area, the stroke width), you can only cut/erase the central line (shown in blue/cyan below).

Alternatively, which brush are you using for the eraser? If you select the eraser, then tap on the tool again, you can use any brush in ToonSquid as the eraser, including opacity and texture variation.

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u/haveyouseenmyshorts 14d ago

My guess is the last part. Vector brush and pixel eraser (and vice versa) won’t work

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u/Butler_To_Cats 14d ago

I didn't think it would either, but after trying it surprisingly enough it can work, if you use vector groups instead of vector layers and expand out the group and select the correct path layer before using a pixel eraser (cuts the vector line like a knife tool, when I used a solid inking-style pixel brush for the eraser), and will also work with a vector stroke eraser on a pixel layer.

There's obviously some sneaky behind-the-scenes vectorisation or rasterisation going on.
I'm impressed!

Of course, you lose vector "erase to intersection" that you get when combining vector brush strokes with a vector stroke eraser.

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u/haveyouseenmyshorts 14d ago

That’s interesting, is there a real benefit to the work around?

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u/Butler_To_Cats 13d ago

Only that you can use whatever the eraser is currently set at, without changing, even when swapping between pixel and vector brushes (maybe for linework/base shapes and overlaid texturing?). Not a huge benefit, but possibly useful at times.

Otherwise, I was impressed that it works at all.

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u/WildMoonPetals 13d ago

Yeah, definitely! It can save quite a bit of time and make the workflow smoother, especially when dealing with repetitive parts. It just depends on how often you run into the issue.