Flash is still unmatched

Whenever I need to draw something with mouse or touchpad, I use Flash. Nowadays it’s called “Animate”, but the good old Flash MX still works great, also on a VMWare ARM Windows.

The reason is that it still has the best line smoothing procedure for vector based painting. There is nothing comparable. Most painting apps do have smoothing brushes, but they are usually speed-based (Flash doesn’t care for drawing speed) and/or pixel-based.

This GIF shows the smoothing in steps of 20, 0 to 100. (I usually stick to 40-60)

I’m seriously considering to just do all my game prototyping and experimentation in old Flash. No annoying updates all the time, ActionScript is well documented with lots of learning material, and it’s no problem to run it in modern browsers via Ruffle.rs.