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  1. VectorVonDoom
    They are very good as usual, always nice to see your work. I still haven't finished my dragonfly, not had the time, but will eventually!
  2. VectorVonDoom
    It is. They might still want to see why it happened as setting an opacity on a gradient stop shouldn't really do that. But if it happens again I know what to check!
  3. VectorVonDoom
    Thank you. I was going through the stops and I know what it is now but not sure why it would mess things up so much. Somehow one stop had a 99% opacity, which shouldn't really make any noticeable difference but broke everything.
  4. VectorVonDoom
    Further to this, I converted the text to outline and set the gradient to 45 degrees. The "problem" goes over the top of the fx gradient, normally the standard gradient would be below it.
  5. VectorVonDoom
    Thanks, I've done that before however this is for a style, so can only be one object.
  6. VectorVonDoom
    I used the same setting but with a more simple gradient and it was fine but I think I broke it this way, don't think it's me. The main stripes gradient is in the fill, not the fx (that's used just to fill the bottom). The first image is with the inner shadow and outline turned off and gradient looks ok. Is with inner shadow turned on, which breaks it Is with outline turned on and breaks it in a different way Both turned on and it looks like the outline image I've attached the file. engrave.afdesign
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    I wish lock would actually lock everything like every other app. It is more than annoying to, for example, find that you've accidentally recoloured objects and don't notice straight away. When you delete an object or click on the background remember where you were, so select the next/previous one. Don't just have nothing selected so when you add a new object it is either at the top or bottom then you have to work out where it was actually meant to be.
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    An outline in the fx panel ignores the noise setting.
  9. VectorVonDoom
    If you are using the gradient editors in the toolbar or the fx panel it's pretty much impossible to edit a complex gradient. Just adding a previous and next gradient stop button or via the keyboard would make it a little easier. Making the panel larger wouldn't be a horrible idea either. You can edit a fill gradient directly in an object but not with precision, perhaps a pop-up when you click on a stop with the edit options, position etc. Also, on the mac at least, if you need to delete a bunch of stops you have to click a stop, delete, click on the next.... would be easier if the next stop was selected and you could just press delete over and over.
  10. VectorVonDoom
    It could be handy so you could fine tune the gradient rather than start entering them and finding they're not quite what you wanted. Anyway it did what I needed it to do but if someone wants to make a fancy pants version then off you go! Now if only you didn't have to type it all in to AD, we had extensions... (and/or better fx's)
  11. VectorVonDoom
    I needed a quick script to make it easier to create some styles that contained stripes using the fx gradient overlay but it obviously also works with the standard gradient. With just a few stripes and it's easy enough but when you are doing 20 or more with fractional percentages it's too much for my tiny mind to easily keep track of So just enter the odd and even stripe width percentages then where any padding should go and it lists the gradient stops to add. I copied the output to a text file and as I completed steps just deleted them from the list. It saved me a headache. Don't look too hard at the messy code, it was a quickie! Stripes.py
  12. VectorVonDoom
    Yes there are lots of things they could improve on both brushes and effects, they are pretty basic at the moment. There are lots of styles I'd like to create but just can't.
  13. VectorVonDoom
    I understand that, they just use png's which is a bit weird really. If it used vectors then size would be irrelevant.
  14. VectorVonDoom
    Thanks, I think I'm OK creating them but will have a read in case I've missed something. 2k seems rather excessive. I might look at raster sometime or not.
  15. VectorVonDoom
    Hi Stuart, Of course it is lol. Sorry I meant vector brushes but will need to see if they will do what I want, I've not looked at raster yet. I was going to create them as vector then export to png. I will keep those dimensions in mind, thanks.
  16. VectorVonDoom
    Exactly, as it's using a png rather than vector you don't want to go too small as it will effect the quality but it's difficult to decide how large is large enough. I guess it's better to go larger to be sure.
  17. VectorVonDoom
    I've played with creating brushes but never could decide how large to make the master images. Take a simple example, if you created a pencil brush how large would you make the master png? 50px high, 100...a huge 400px? So how large are you creating your brush masters that will work regardless of paper size? Thanks.
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    It is certainly possible in both those apps if you know how to use them properly and, depending what you're doing and how you like to do it, can be easier. You might decide to go about it in a differently way than in AD but the results will be the same. The headlight's getting there. I do the same, get fed up of working on one part and do something different for a while. It all gets done in the end.
  19. VectorVonDoom
    I know, I hate headlamps but at least modern ones are lot easier to draw than the classic type which take me at least a week or two. You can do anything without meshes, it might take longer but you can do it. Always easier with a really high res reference image or images.
  20. VectorVonDoom
    Hard to tell if it will be photorealistic but good luck. A Rowe racing something, perhaps a Porsche going by an image search???
  21. VectorVonDoom
    Just messing around with low colours.
  22. VectorVonDoom
    I forgot I was going to upload the afd file but didn't. So here it is. Red eyed tree frog.afdesign
  23. VectorVonDoom
    No, I had tried that and just tried again to be sure. I hadn't checked before but it doesn't show up on any palettes. I just tried 1.7.0 that was on my old macbook and that is fine on my new one with Catalina, the options menus show as expected.
  24. VectorVonDoom
    Hi Sean, Thanks. Does that include the options menu disappearing? It's not there even after a restart. I also tried a preferences reset and it didn't help. As it happens I decided I didn't need to export the swatches anyway, which is good!
  25. VectorVonDoom
    macOS Catalina 10.15.1, AD 1.7.3. I managed to get the swatches panel to mess up. Not sure how as I only added those swatches but had docked/undocked it too. It sorted out on a restart. However more of a problem is that the options menu isn't there top right so I can't export etc and it's just not there ever.
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