Fairy Lights - Scatter Brushes

**Acorn** · 02 December 2022, 02:32 PM

Here are two brushes for you to adorn your Christmas Tree / Season Fir: Xara - Fairy Lights.xar.

Approach:

Draw your line.
Clone.
Apply 4px Line Width and Flex Brush.
Apply 100px Line Width and Fairy Lights.
Break at Point for tight bends and put behinds.
Reverse Paths to flip lights.

Works all the way back to Xara Xtreme 5 (XX5).

Christmas Cracker Gift: XX5 has the means to create and Edit Scatter brushes.
It was free and might still be downloadable but do pick a legal source.
Xara Xtreme for Linux is still accessible.

Acorn

**RKissane** · 02 December 2022, 03:41 PM

Acorn,

I don't have my copy of XX5 on my machine any more. What could you edit on the brush back then that you can't edit now?

And thanks for the brushes.

Ray

**Boy** · 02 December 2022, 03:46 PM

Thanks for the X-mas gift, Acorn! Festive brushes.

**Acorn** · 02 December 2022, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by RKissane

Acorn,
I don't have my copy of XX5 on my machine any more. What could you edit on the brush back then that you can't edit now?
And thanks for the brushes.

Ray

Ray, if you only had Web Designer (Premium) then you have no brush editor at all (all versions).
Art Brushes came into being with XDPXv11.

Acorn