Gradient on 3/4 circle

[KeyboardMap]

How would you fill a shape like this

 

with a gradient that starts at the top and ends at the right; none of the presets seem to fit my use and a image brush method I've seen elsewhere seems to not work since I'm aiming to fill and not modify the stroke

[GarryP]

Can you be a bit more specific about:

• where the “top” is;
• where the “right” is;
• how the transition between “top” and “right” should proceed;
• where the gradient should be seen;
• where the gradient should not be seen?

[carl123]

Also how many (primary) colours in the gradient?

[KeyboardMap]

Sorry for the lack of information, I want the color RGB (0,140,0) to interpolate to RGB (0,90,0) in the direction here

I've tried conical but it has different shades depending on distance from the centre

[Murfee]

Hi @KeyboardMap

Does this work for you?

Use a linear gradient, set your colours, then move the gradient end pints to the start & end of your shape 

[KeyboardMap]

@Murfee The gradient doesn't follow the shape exactly, but it gets the look I'm trying to get, so yes it works...
how did I not try this

[GarryP]

Thanks for the extra information.

Yeah, a Conical gradient isn’t going to work, as you say, because it always has a single colour at the centre which affects the colours between the ‘outside’ and ‘inside’.

I’m pretty sure this has been asked before but I can’t remember what the solution was (it there was one).

There have been requests for ‘free-form gradients’ and ‘gradients mesh’ which can be found by searching the forums for gradient around circle .

The closest thing I can thing of at the moment is that given by Murfee above, but that still involves some change of colour from ‘inside’ to ‘outside’.

[GarryP]

You could try using a Textured Image Brush as in my example image, large stroke width for brush on curve clipped inside the original shape, but I don’t know how well it will work in practice for what you want to do with it.

Now that I think of it, I’m pretty sure I posted a video about doing this sort of thing to the forums a while back.

[KeyboardMap]

@GarryP So that was why textured image brushes weren't working well... was completely unaware that you had to make the fill/stroke transparent for the actual colors of the image part of the image brush to show, thought it was always meant to appear grey, uhhh thanks for the possibly unintentional help

[GarryP]

I think the Stroke colour can be used as a ‘modifier’ with Textured Image Brushes but I don’t use them much so I couldn’t explain how.

[KeyboardMap]

One thing: Do you know what might be the issue that causes my image brush gradient to only go to RGB of this value, when the image itself goes to an RGB of 140 green

[GarryP]

Sorry, no I don’t.

It can sometimes be lessened by using a Butt Cap on the stroke but my guess is that it’s a consequence of stretching the rectangular pixel image around a vector curve.

You can possibly get round it by making the curve a bit longer than you need it, so the clipping ‘hides’ the ends.

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, KeyboardMap said:

How would you fill a shape like this

For this circular example I would use the Conical Gradient.

2 hours ago, GarryP said:

Yeah, a Conical gradient isn’t going to work, as you say, because it always has a single colour at the centre which affects the colours between the ‘outside’ and ‘inside’.

Just set one Stop to red and the other to yellow.

[G13RL]

Perhaps a conical gradient would still do the trick:

[KeyboardMap]

Yep, conical gradients work just fine- doesn't seem to look too different from the diagonal linear one but conical ones can be used for full circles, so great.