My eraser is bugged out, what do I do?

[Nor_wick]

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What Wick Editor Version are you using?
1.19.3

Describe the Problem
Every time I erase, it removes details from the shape of what i erased. This is a problem because I’m relying on the eraser tool for a project at school. My color dropper doesn’t work, so I can’t refill the black spaces. My cursor is always the moving tool at all times, which throws me off.

Expected behavior
I expected it to erase just fine, and to use the color picker as usual. That didn’t work.

Screenshots

*Computer Information

• OS: Windows
• Device Type: Laptop
• Browser Chrome

What have you tried so far?
I have reloaded and redownloaded wick. Other than that nothing worked.

[awc95014]

my understanding is that the eraser is erasing more than it is supposed to. (correct me if i’m wrong)

a temporary solution could be to move the shape you want to erase away from everything else, then erase that, then move it back where it should be.

[Nor_wick]

thank you so much for your help, but I don’t think thats the case. Whenever I erase, it blacks out and removes other strokes that i made around it. Its kind of hard to explain, but i’ll try my best. In the image, i erased in a straight line down, and then the black just appeared. Thanks again though.

[Hamzah_Alani]

I remember this bug, @kryptot7 reported it before back in version 1.17 (or was it 1.18?)

Here’s what this bug does:

• This bug doesn’t black things out, but instead, it changes path objects opacity to 1 when it erases through them.

From looking at the image you shared, you seem to have path objects with lower opacity near where the eraser came -

EX of how this works/ steps to reproduce:

Here’s a tip, use this:
to change the opacity of a path,
it works better than using this:

[Nor_wick]

Thank you so much! This was so helpful and much appreciated! :D