Stroke and end point overlap and add their opacities

[Serisar]

Hi!

I am trying to use a brushed stroke (with a "Circle Solid" end to denote a flight path on a discgolf tee sign.

The stroke and endpoint should be somewhat transparent to still show the underlying features of the terrain, so i tried to used the opacity (for color and the object itself) as well as the lighten/screen feature with identical results (picture 1/2).

It seems like the stroke and the end point are treated as seperate objects whose opacity stacks, resulting in a less opaque area where they overlap, when it should be continuously shaded. Is there a way to prevent this behavior? It seems like i should be able to join them into a singular object or stop overlapping areas from adding their opacity somehow .

The workaround I've found is putting a circle with the size i want the end point to over the end node of the stroke and duplicating it (picture 6). Afterwards i group one of the circles together with the stroke and erase-blend it, essentially cutting it from the target area. This works, but it makes moving the end point more cumbersome, because the two circles don't stay attached when i move the node. It feels like this should have been a setting connected to the stroke/end point itself.

Edited September 24, 2024 by Serisar
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[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, Serisar said:

I am trying to use a brushed stroke (with a "Circle Solid" end to denote a flight path on a discgolf tee sign.

Use a round cap instead. This is a simple line, not a brushed stroke, with a pressure curve.

[Hangman]

Hi @Serisar and welcome to the forums,

@Old Bruce beat me to it (again) but you could combine an ellipse and a stroke with a pressure curve applied, Group the two elements and then apply the opacity to the Group rather than the individual objects...

[Old Bruce]

4 minutes ago, Hangman said:

@Old Bruce beat me to it (again)

Oh no. Usually it is me who gets ninja-ed. A portent.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,"

 

[Serisar]

@Old Bruce@Hangman Thank you guys so much! I could've sworn that i tried the round cap already without it working. After looking at the pressure curve again i realized that it didn't quite look like your picture:

Because the end points of the curve moved up and down together by default i must've just dragged a point to to the upper corner, which messes up the round cap. It wasn't really obvious to me that you can  click them to remove the linkage, so that took a minute to figure out, but it is working as intended now. Thanks again!

[NotMyFault]

You can group the original curve with caps and reduce opacity on group level. No need to split into end/curve/start.