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Which I thought was fantastic so I've been trying to replicate it. Mine is different as the spiral doesn't decrease in size as it shrinks in and I've also cocked up the 24 hour numerals. It was fun to do. Reminded me of many years ago following Gary's XaraXone tutorials:
Heh heh, Love it, Egg.
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Egg, I had a go a time back that you might recall: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...733#post638733.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Acorn
Forgot about that post Acorn. The spiral still has problems. First and formost you can't reverse the spirals direction:
Egg, as you have used a Scatter Brush, Edit Brush > Rotation > Brush angle: 180deg and you reverse the direction.
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If you use an Art Brush or built-in stoke you have to crack open the spiral.
Acorn
Not sure if this is what you mean Egg, but if you convert the spiral to curves, then use the Shape Tool and Reverse Paths.
I use this all the time when working with the Art Brush.
Gary, Egg applied this way in his video.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
Acorn
@Egg, you can Fit Blend to Curve, which is a quick way to get a smooth scaling inwards:
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The action unfortunately changes the Spiral to a Line but at least you can Reverse Path.
Acorn
Hi Guys,
No I'm using an art brush. To maintain a spiral as a spiral I need to create the brush back to front. See attached xar.Quote:
Egg, as you have used a Scatter Brush, Edit Brush > Rotation > Brush angle: 180deg and you reverse the direction.
I'm aware there are other means of acheiving the results but I hold the spiral tool shoud allow for reversing the path whilst remaining a spiral.
Great effects, love it.
I'm going senile! To reverse the path of the spiral all that's required is ti flip the spiral horizontally (use Ctrl to keep the spiral aspect locked). No need to make back to front clock faces!
But I'd still love a way to reverse the stroke path!
This is probably the cause of my loss of memory:
https://parkeston.com/tg/clock/
Egg, I think you have to agree I try to hold Xara's feet to the flames over it introducing new features that usurp its established workflow. Most of the SmartShapes have such failings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Funny enough I was mid-flight in suggesting you just create your clock numbers the right way round but Flip both H & V before creating your Art Brush. Your approach is the quicker and more so if you just Flip H directly on the spiral.
You still have to break the SmartShape by UnGrouping to reverse Path so you can apply a Stroke to get near to Gary's original:
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Totally agreed not being able to reverse path is bad.
Acorn
Cheers for your input Acorn. Always welcome!
Egg, finally cracked it! Not your shell, of course!
If I use any type of Brush, if I then apply a Stroke, it is applied inner to outer so the outside design is smaller than the inside.
Up to now, I have broken the Spiral and used Revers Path.
Instead, there are two Wind around the centre Controls.
If you drag the inside one outside and the outside one to the centre, the Path is reversed.
This retains the SmartShape functionality.
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I can now tweak all day as I have lots of time;
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Here's how: Attachment 132973
Acorn
Yes that works!!!!
Now about the spacing ..........
Yes indeed, now we can go all the way up to eleven:
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(Spinal Tap)
Acorn
My final go:
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No where as accurate as I would like.
Acorn