[Feature request]: Circle brush eraser for control points

[ChameleonScales]

I take many nature landscape panoramas in which most features are not straight like buildings. So when I want to remove CPs, the rectangle selection (Ctrl + right click) is unhandy, as I have to draw many rectangles to erase points on, say, a single tree.

If there was a circular brush tool to erase control points, removing them would be much easier.

Does this seem useful to users other than me?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

Yes, this seems an excellent idea.

As people have told me on other projects when I come up with an idea
like this: "Send code". I don't know how difficult it is, but my
guess is that nobody else will implement it.

Greg
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[ChameleonScales]

I've only done python code so far and have zero C++ knowledge.
But if someone knows how to do it but needs the funding I can help with that.

[Abrimaal]

Yes, we the photographers and graphic artist work and think in graphic mode, while the programmers work with numbers.
This causes a lot of misunderstanding between the developers "it is working" and the users "it is missing".
Initially Hugin was intended to be a graphic editor, dedicated for photographers.
Now, if you want to create a perfect panorama, you need to type a lot of numbers.
For people who work with graphics, even such option as "rotate by 270°" may be not understood.
We rotate left or right moving the cursor. (this applies to a different editor).

How many years I am begging for introducing graphic sliders to correct vertical and horizontal compression
of the panorama previews.
Or just dark editor background than makes possible to work with night photos.
"For you can work with numbers" - this is the usual response.

So, we can forget about a graphic eraser and similar improvements,

such as exposure and color correction using sliders, scale and rotate images in graphic mode.
Numeric values may be used for very precise work, with single pixels.
Am I right or wrong?
Masks are the best example how simple is the work in graphic mode.
I understand that it was not easy for the programmer.

[J. Schneider*]

I have wished the same many times, basically every time I use this tool!
Maybe a compromise would be to use a polygonal lasso tool. Something
like this is already implemented for masking, I guess some code could be
reused.
Sorry, my coding knowledge dates from last century, I'm no help
implementing it.

Best regards
Joachim

Am 01.02.21 um 02:30 schrieb Greg 'groggy' Lehey: