thanks for the link david - that looks like a very useful storyboard tool
not looked at blender for quite a while...time I went back
thanks for the link david - that looks like a very useful storyboard tool
not looked at blender for quite a while...time I went back
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I believe most of this video was made with the grease pencil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKmSdY56VtY. Tons of tutorials out there for using it, even though I never have - I've just been blown away by their results.
In InkScape, you can select your nodes and press CTRL+L in order to simplify (or click Path - Simplify).
In Moho, CTRL + M will simplify your curve between 0 and 100% but Moho is not the best tool for static images.
In VectorStyler, you can remove some nodes from paths by painting over the node.
In Xara, there is nothing. Yet you can use the paint tool (in pucker mode) to adjust your spline, then you select the nodes to remove, and finally you delete them using the delete key:
thanks dan
in xara you can convert a line to a shape
if you have a shape that is a line-shaped shape, you cannot treat it as a line; it would be nice to be able to convert it [back], or at least as with toon boom treat it, as a line
tracing as you suggest produces a line of uniform width; my wish is to preserve the existing profile of the shape whilst editing it as a line
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The Shape Painter tool does something close to what you want, I think.
With the shape selected, go to that Shape painter and choose "Warp" from the dropdown at the right hand end. Then drag the point in smooth strokes across the shape in the direction you want it to move.
So long as you cross both edges of the shape at roughly the same speed they will move by the same amount, thus keeping the profile.
(Sounds more technical than it really is.)
Hi Phil - great to see you back on the forum these past months
Indeed the shape painter tool will warp in the way you describle and that is useful thanks, but [you knew there would be a but didn't you ]...
....that is not manipulating the shape as a line
look at it the other way round, if you said: hey guys from now on the only way you can repositon a line is to use the warp tool, what might be the response ?
if I want to switch a character's cheek from sunken to bloated, and it is a line, I just push it out with the cursor; that is what I would like to do if it is a shape;
I would settle for a function that reverts the shape to a line if that preserves the profile; easy enough to convert it back to a shape again
Last edited by handrawn; 06 May 2021 at 05:33 PM. Reason: clarity
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handrawn, you are true, there is no way, in Xara, to simplify/smooth a line. You must convert it to a shape, then the shape cannot be converted back to a line.
It is interesting to note that even very old software like Expression can simplify a line while Xara still cannot.
So when I face such problem, I convert my file into EMF, SVG or whatever and edit it into another app, then open it again in Xara. It is not convenient.
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