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Hello!
I need to create smoke for a particle in Unreal Development Kit. From tutorials that I've found on Youtube, I see how it's done in Photoshop. I don't own Photoshop anymore and would like to use XDP X to accomplish this. How would I go about doing this without using the smoke live effect? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
http://www.xaraxone.com/html/fills_and_brushes.html
Almost at the bottom is a Smoke Brush.
I'm interested in finding the Smoke Live effect? Can you describe where I'd find it?Quote:
Originally Posted by RaptorMoonX
Live Effects --> New --> Eye Candy 4000 --> Smoke
Thank you gwpriester. You're awesome as always. Another quick question. I can use the smoke brush to create a steam effect as well? Oh and how do I install the brush? ^^;;
Doesn't seem to be any EC 4000 in any recent version of Xara Designer. In my older Xtreme version (which I've imported into the latest version) there is EC 4000 Demo, but no 'Smoke'. Is this one that you purchased perhaps?
I am not sure that the smoke brush can be used for steam :rolleyes: What's the difference?
Just download and open the XAR document. The brush will be available in the in the Line Gallery > New Brush Strokes folder. Select the outline or path to which you want to apply the brush, set a line width (start with 16-24) and then press Apply. Experiment with the settings. This effect works best over a dark background.
gwpriester: Thank you. To clarify: the smoke will be coming out of a "live" volcano, whereas steam may be shooting out from various parts of the inside of the volcano (where I'm creating a video game level).
sledger: EC4000 is a plug-in that I originally bought way back with Xtreme Pro 3.
Have a look at the clouds portion of this tutorial from the Xara Xone you could easily create smoke and steam this way.
http://www.xaraxone.com/tips-and-tri...lous-fractals/
Gary relating the selecting outline, does it mean that maybe possible to apply a brush to an object outline? I mean for example if in Shape tool drawing a rectangle, setting line width to it, then somehow applying the brush to its width line?Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
csehz,
It is my understanding the the answer to your question is yes unless I am not grasping your question properly. The brush is an altered line and as such is applied as a line not a shape even though it may be composed of several smaller shapes. Try it and you'll see.
Is this the effect you want ?Quote:
Originally Posted by csehz
Stygg
That is really interesting yes it works, at my first try was not able to reproduce
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Anyway so like on this example, the brush contains a star, a circle and a rectangle, is it possible to Edit the Brush on that way that for example removing the star? Because that one which never knew how to do yet
You can change various attributes of the brush, but I don't believe you can directly edit the objects that make up the brush. To do that, you need to create a new brush.
Allison is quite correct and I can't think of any practical reason to be able to do so. However you could create your drawing by using 3 different brushes and deleting the one you don't want. See attachments. (The gif below is an animation but you need to click it to view the animation)
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That's wild Egg.
Egg thanks very much the tutorial, I would think practical the ability to remove or add something to a created brush, because like that could experiment which looks better or something like that.
Yes I see csehz, so just keep copies of the shapes you used to create the brush, make duplicates & change one or more shapes then create a new brush from these. It's very fast.
Hi everyone,
I just found this while looking into the issue of editing brush definitions:
Did you know that if you open the Line Gallery, open the "New Brush Strokes" section and right click on a brush item there's an option to "Copy brush graphic to clipboard"... Click that and then Paste and you have the original brush shapes.
This doesn't really let you edit a brush definition because, having changed the objects, you'd have to create a new version and then set up the other parameters again. However, it does mean that you don't need to keep copies of your original objects and you can get at the definitions of third party brushes.
Phil
Phil that is very good, never would perceive that option :o From this topic really learnt a lot
Excellent. Thanks, Phil.
Allison