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Hi Phil - great to see you back on the forum these past months :-bd

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...

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...

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 :)

I remember anime studio I think - wasn't it the program with 'rubber-bone' rigging? :)

maanipulating a shape in the shape of a line, the same way as a line, is just basic as far as I am concerned...

sorry:

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probably not ;)

but if you have a shape that is defined by its perimeter nodes, its a pain to curve is it not.. a centerline function would be much better so it is like a line

yes but then you still need to manipulate it using the nodes; and xara does not let you choose which nodes to anchor the start and finish of the curve... this is a line function, not a shape

what about this....

you have a raster drawing vectorised and lo ! look at all those nodes

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if you want to bow out the cheek to make the face fatter, it's going to be a pita in xara...