Customizing

Adding Canvas Presets

You can customize preset menu in new canvas menu by editing presetcvsize.conf in SAI installation folder.

Each rows has canvas preset information like below format.

[width], [height], [resolution], [size unit], [resolution unit], "[preset name]"

The [size unit] indicates [width] and [height] item unit with these number.
0	Pixels
1	Inch
2	Centimeter
3	Millimeter

The [resolution unit] indicates [resolution] item unit with these number.
0	Pixel count per inch
1	Pixel count per centimeter

If the row begins with hyphen(-), this is shown as separator in dropdown list.

If the row begins with semicolon(;), the row is considered as comment.

(*) In Windows default settings, .conf file isn't associated with any text editor application, so to edit this file, please drag and drop this file to text editor directly or associate .conf file to text editor or notepad by hand.

Adding Paper Textures

You can add new paper textures by editing papertex.conf in SAI installation folder, maximum texture counts is up to 99.

Each rows has texture information like below format.

The [texture type] has only one type like below,

This indicate grayscale BMP with same width & height, each image size must be 256/512/1024 pixels.

The relative path for texture file means texture file location and name with relative folder path from SAI installation folder.

Adding Brush Shapes

You can add new brush shapes by editing brushform.conf in SAI installation folder, maximum shape counts is up to 99.

[shape type], [relative path for shape file].

The [shape type] has two types like below
1	Edge	This indicate brush edge gradient. Grayscale BMP with same width & height, each image size must be 256/512/1024 pixels.
2	Bristle	This indicate bristle (brush fiber) shape. 63x63 BMP file, and each RGB(0,0,0) pixel means each fiber position, maximum limitation counts are up to 63 points.

The [relative path for shape file] means shape file location and name with relative folder path from SAI installation folder.

Adding Brush Textures

You can add new brush textures by editing brushtex.conf in SAI installation folder, maximum texture counts is up to 98.

Each rows has texture information like below format.

[texture type], [relative path for texture file].

The [texture type] has only one type like below
1	This indicate grayscale BMP with same width & height, each image size must be 256/512/1024 pixels.

The [relative path for texture file] means texture file location and name with relative folder path from SAI installation folder.

About misc.ini

There is the file named misc.ini in SAI installation folder. This file is for extra configurations like below.

Settings for some user's demand but not so general. Settings for counter the troubles that occurs only some user specific environments. Settings for early experimental futures.

These settings may be different in each version of SAI. More description for each settings are written in misc.ini, so if you want use these settings please refer them.