Hi Chucky.
With a Line Fill there are no actual AS lines used. You overlap two shapes and make the top one smaller than the back one to give the appearance of a line going around the outside. The characters I posted above don't have any line work in them at all....they are all just filled shapes to give the appearance of lines.
I agree with you on the line width tool....it does some strange things to in AS sometimes.
Cheers
D.K
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Ahhh DK , that very tricky, nice idea.
Sounds scary....
On the subject of lines, and with the habit of AS generating line breaks and the like, one thing I end up doing more than I'd like, is creating a separate shape purely as a line and place that on top of the fill shapes.
Doesn't always work but helps.
Sounds scary....
On the subject of lines, and with the habit of AS generating line breaks and the like, one thing I end up doing more than I'd like, is creating a separate shape purely as a line and place that on top of the fill shapes.
Doesn't always work but helps.
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Yeah, it's a black stroke. I wanted a single stroke to adjust so it'd be easy to do with camera zoom, I could probably get away with a milder color than black, but I think it works well.Vern wrote:I think your line color is being animated somewhere. The stroke isn't just scaling it is also changing color.
What I did was create a single outline shape for the whole thing. (Selecting all excluding the lines that should be hidden) I named this outline shape so it'd be easy to find, and gave it a five width black line. Then I just match making this shape transparent as my camera zooms in.