Cracked Glass

[Steve Newport]

Just wondering if any of you have any techinques that work real well for creating broken glass? I was just sitting around playing with Xara attempting to think of some things I could make and this idea popped into my mind and I realized I have no clue on how I could go about doing this! So any suggestions would be great [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Steve Newport

[This message was edited by Vitality on January 14, 2001 at 02:43 PM.]

[Soquili]

Steve,
This is a quick attempt to create a broken window pane. I'm sure that there are better ways of making the effect. Hopefully some will be posted.

Soquili

[Soquili]

Here's the XAR file so you can see how the image was constructed.

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[panfer]

Can someone please show me how to do clear glass? Thank you, appricate it.
Panfer

[Soquili]

Panfer,

If you go to the XaraXone Tutorials, Gary Priester's Jan97 tutorial shows how to make clear glass.

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[panfer]

Thanks I will check it out.
panfer

[Soquili]

Panfer,

I hope Gary's tutorial helped you in creating clear glass.

The window attached below is an example of clear glass. Each pane consists of two rectangles. They start as a single rectangle given a linear fill applied diagonally from upper left to lower right. The colours of the fill are white (upper left) and black (lower right). A flat stained glass transparency was applied. Then clone the rectangle and change the clone's transparency to bleach. A small narrow white rectangle was used for the highlight, it was given an elliptical transparency. The center of this transparency was changed of 0% to 50%.

I look forward to seeing some of your work posted here in the gallery.

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[Soquili]

Some people have downloaded the XAR file for the quick example of broken glass, so I'll post the XAR file for the clear glass example.

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[panfer]

I downloaded your window, and I did the tutorial.It was great help.
Thanks a lot.
Panfer

[gwpriester]

Here you go. Clear glass [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Actually because glass is clear, what tells us that there is glass present is the reflections.

Gary

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