Lines of different widths welded together

Klay frog · Post by **Klay frog** » Sun May 16, 2010 10:33 pm

I've found that if you try to weld two lines together of different widths, the lines end up being tapered and distorted looking-- they no longer become independent widths. What I'm personally trying to do is have a thick outline of a character and make the internal lines thinner. Is there any way to connect the thinner lines with the thick lines without having that distortion occur?

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Sun May 16, 2010 11:01 pm

I do not think it's possible within the same shape, but I'm no expert, maybe one of the guys with more XP has your solution.

Klay frog · Post by **Klay frog** » Sun May 16, 2010 11:16 pm

Yeah, I think so too... which is kind of annoying.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Sun May 16, 2010 11:29 pm

You always have the option of creating new layers and have shapes with the line width you desire and bind shape/layers to the bone and it will give (what i think you mean) the lines you are looking for.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Mon May 17, 2010 12:21 pm

You can always create a "Mr Bean"-style thick line around the edge of a character using a shadow with zero offset.

lwaxana · Post by **lwaxana** » Mon May 17, 2010 7:07 pm

klay frog-- you can do it by layering shapes with different styles on top of the same vector points. I just tested this. However this will not work if you need to use the line width tool on any of the points that have more than one shape style. The line width tool will override the shape style on any shapes created from that vector point.

Procedure to layer shapes with different styles:
1. Create your thin line shapes.
2. Use the outline points from those shapes to create your thick line shape.
3. Make sure thick line shape is in front.
4. Remove fill on thick line shape.

example from my test:

Klay frog · Post by **Klay frog** » Thu May 20, 2010 11:15 pm

jahnocli wrote:You can always create a "Mr Bean"-style thick line around the edge of a character using a shadow with zero offset.

There's an idea! That would also be good when something like an arm goes from an inner line into an outline. I've never tried using the shadow effect yet, but I'll have to try that.

lwaxana wrote:klay frog-- you can do it by layering shapes with different styles on top of the same vector points. I just tested this. However this will not work if you need to use the line width tool on any of the points that have more than one shape style. The line width tool will override the shape style on any shapes created from that vector point.

Procedure to layer shapes with different styles:
1. Create your thin line shapes.
2. Use the outline points from those shapes to create your thick line shape.
3. Make sure thick line shape is in front.
4. Remove fill on thick line shape.

And there's another idea I wish I thought of lol. Somehow I forgot that you can use the same points to create another shape. Thanks guys.