Braid Brush

[jclements]

Muncipal logos often have a braided or rope edge. Trying to redraw this can be very tedious. Here is a brush that may help you do this.

[Intbel]

That is a most useful brush - many thanks.

I had a bit of a play .. can be used also for bracelets an' tyre treads an' .. what else?

[gwpriester]

Those braided borders are usually embosed.

Nice job John.

Gary

[Egg Bramhill]

Cheers John

Ropes in a circular shape are difficult to do as a brush as they tend to have overlaping edges internaly and to big a space on the outer edge.

I've used your shape and applied a mould to widen the top. This makes for a good rope to use in a circle but not so good for a straight line.

[jclements]

Thanks, Egg.

I was hoping someone would work on improving my initial attempts.

Looking at your example I can see how I can make other improvements. However, it all depends upon the radii of the curve's stroke (in this case a circle) and the line width (which determines the required angle of rotation property). .... Now that would be some piece of programing, a new brush property called "deform" which would gently skew a brush shape at a specified point depending upon the spacing and/or rotation angle. I'm sure Charles could sit down and come up with the code to do so within an hour or so

[Egg Bramhill]

John

Yes that would take brushes onto another level!

[Availor]

Nice rope look and feel

[gwpriester]

John

If you apply a blend to your shape instead of a contour, and then blend to a path, Xara maintains the light angle.

For some odd reason I added a Glow Shadow (second example) which has some of the feeling of Milt's Mayan Blood image.

Gary

[Egg Bramhill]

For some odd reason I added a Glow Shadow (second example) which has some of the feeling of Milt's Mayan Blood image.

Gary, I also used the glow shadow effect extensively in my Mayan image