I have been having some issues with 4.1.7 crashing from time to time so I decided, what the hey, lets just upgrade to 4.2.2.

I quickly became frustrated because all of my custom brushes stopped working as intended. It seems as if the softness setting is doing the opposite that it should. Several of my own brushes that I have made stopped working as intended and i dont know if this is just a softness problem or an all brushes settings problem.

I am on windows, Let me know if you need any more detail provided about my system.

Example
https://i.imgur.com/dhneybf.png

I was going to put the img itself in the post, but its bigger than 720 wide and I didn't want to compress it down and lose the detail of whats happening.

I don't know much about this area but there has been a change to the brush behaviour in 4.2.2. If you go to Settings -> Configure Krita -> General, the Tools tab: there is a 'Brush Flow Mode' setting that is new. It activates 'creaminess' and you can disable it by changing it back to 'Hard' corresponding to the 4.1 behaviour. A restart is needed after changing it.

I'm not sure how that ties in with the property you call 'softness' but it's the only change I can think of that might cause this difference in behaviour. It takes a very short time to try it so you might as well give it a go.

Somebody who really knows about this sort of thing may come along later.

Release notes on 4.2.0 (https://krita.org/en/krita-4-2-release-notes/ show we changed two things

• Flow calculations, to make it more creamy. Ol behaviour can be set in Preferences > General > tools
• Sharpness sensor control: with the optional softness to control sharpness threshold. But for this one we reviewed new options were set default to make it behave as the old sharness.

The smoothness sensor did not receive any modifications afair. How did you set the sofness on your presets?

Well, that fixed the weird flow problem. I didn't even notice that in the changelog (or didn't think it would affect me so didn't pay attention)

Unfortunately, the softness setting is still a problem. Im not sure i understand how the new settings are supposed to work. The brushes that had it applied didn't have sharpness turned on at all. The softness applied a little more a gaussian edge.

Am I going to have to go update every single one of my brushes and adjust the softness in the brush tip settings instead? Actually I just realized i can't even do that on some of them.

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Edit:
Oh, on second look I can change the vertical and horizontal fade. So that begs that question again. Am I just going to have to go change the settings on every brush?