Moho Animation Forum

The above Superman face is from a photo and Vectorized in Vector Magic.

Do you ever have this problem after importing an Adobe Illustrator vector file?
You know. Those white outlines around each of the color changes. Look at the Movie render more closely. You won’t notice them until you render a Quicktime movie file. Or do a quick render in ASP.
They don’t show up in a Flash render. That’s because when line width is turned off they’re transparent and
Flash doesn’t render transparent from ASP. (I know the lines are transparent because if you change the background
color in AS the outline changes to the color of the background.) You may not have outline problems in Flash,
but how about “color Gaps from the import?

What I hope to show you is a fix for either of the two problems.
1. Set your Display Quality (bottom right corner)to “Preview”. That way you don’t get lost in all those vector points.
2. In the “tools” choose the “Select shape” tool.
3. Click on a color in your imported image. You will see it turn to a checkered color fill and the fill color will be displayed.
4. Double click the fill color box (blue circle above) and the color picker will open.
5. In the bottom right beside the pound # sign is a box with a hexadecimal number in it. Highlight the number and copy it. Hit return.
6. Go to the Line Color box, double click, and in the color picker paste the hexadecimal number you just copied. (Green circle above) Hit return.
7. Change “Line Width” to 2, hit return.
Now if you do a quick render you will see the line gap has vanished for that color. Go to the next color joining the one you just changed and repeat the process.
It goes faster than you think.
I usually do a render and watch the render picture to see where I need to pick the next color. Then,
close the render box and each time do a new render to view how it’s going. That helps to keep track of what’s already done.
Use the keyboard shortcut for rendering.
>command<>E< on a Mac.

I discovered this while importing AI images that needed a fix.
Necessity is the "Mother" of invention.
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Sorry I was having problems with the above image. I think it's fixed now.

Does this line gap make sense to anybody or am I the only one who has had that problem?

Look at the Movie render more closely

Which movie?
-G

Genete wrote:

Look at the Movie render more closely

Which movie?
-G

The graphic above in the first post that says "Movie Render" above it.

One is a screen shot of a Quicktime movie still, and the other is a screen shot of a Flash still. You will get the same result if you do a quick render in AS as you do in Quicktime.