Hello, I hope my question here isn't a duplicate.

I've been looking around the internet and discovered that brush 'hardness' (or so-called on other artist application) can be adjusted via the mask type's 'fade' slider, and supposedly can be further controlled by pressure via 'softness' settings. Thing is, the 'softness' settings isn't working.

It's just that's that, not working.
I've tried combinations the following:

1. Switching to all available mask type (gaussian, curve, soft)
2. Changing the pressure curve, diagonal down and up
3. Changing the curve calculation mode
4. Switching on other control parameters (speed and time)
   

Here's some screenshots: note that all strokes are mostly identical on different softness settings combination. I turned on opacity and size control too.
https://i.imgur.com/jU84xFm.png
https://i.imgur.com/uw3QlEm.png

Any idea what's wrong?
I hope I'm not misunderstanding the function of 'softness' here, since It'd be a letdown to not be able to control brush 'hardness' in krita
Thank you!

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Can anyone confirm if this actually works? I might want to report a bug.

It works on my end: Try auto brush tip, Mask:default, shape: Circular, set Fade to 1.0 on both horizontal and vertical. Now adjust your softness curve.

Softness appears to not be working on gaussian Masks and we know it does nothing on predefined masks.

Just tried again and noticed that it indeed does work on default but not on gauss. The most faded value for default brush isn't faded enough for my needs, unfortunately. Compared to GIMP, they have even more faded brush edges (they call it softness, though)

Screenshot comparison for default values
https://imgur.com/vH830FW.png

I know that such fade can be achieved by curves, but I need them controlled by pressure.
Any chance we might have more faded edges, or pressure controlled gaussian in the future?

The GIMP 'Hardness' parameter seems to be quite different from the krita 'Softness' parameter. It looks like a combination of size change with edge fading.

The place to discuss possible changes and new developments is the Krita Development sub-forum viewforum.php?f=288
However, to say that GIMP has something and so krita should have it would not be a good argument to start with.