Hi,
It's easy to create a sphere from a circle and a clone with circular transparency.
But how does one draw a cocoon (stretched sphere), like the (rather poor) example in attached gif?
Stephan
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Hi,
It's easy to create a sphere from a circle and a clone with circular transparency.
But how does one draw a cocoon (stretched sphere), like the (rather poor) example in attached gif?
Stephan
Hi,
Welkom terug/Welcome back
Create a circle
clone the cirle move it a little to the right
select both circles and add shapes
select with the shape editor tool(f4)the three right handles/nodes
and move them to the right(hold down ctrl)
(you could use the rectangle tool with rounded corners also)
Hope it helps,Hans
Welcome to the Xara Gallery Conference Stephan
Here are a few ways. There are many more and I am sure others will share their methods. :)
Gary
Or...
Create a capsule shape.
Duplicate and apply an Inner Contour with the Contour Tool.
Press the Inset Path icon - This makes a single new object
Apply Linear transparency to the white shape.
Gary
I just use a blend between 2 lines.
I try as much as possible not to blend between (complex) shapes, because the blend often doesn't turn out right ;)
Or is this the kind of cocoon you're after?
Hi Egg,
Nice one
Since your the flash man;Can you make it pop and fly away like a butterfly ;)
Hans
Well gentlemen,
I must say that have been very quick with your assistance.
I had found a Xara Xone workbook exercise about Gel buttons, which is pretty much the same method as Gary's 2nd posting in red. But I wasn't too pleased with the end result. Particularly as the cocoon has to co-exist with the purplish spheres I had already created.
I think I'll play around a bit with Gary's green and the Alien's blue methods.
Thanks very much folks,
Stephan
Alien
That's a brilliant solution! Why didn't I think of that? :o
Gary
Hehe, I've learned this technique a long time ago from the Shading a bent tube thread at the tips & tricks board ;)