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Hello everyone,

Okay, I've been really coming along great in learning AS. You guys here, all the how-to posts, have been priceless.

So here is my little problem currently. I moved a head from one character's body and placed it on the body of another. Bound the head and it's layers to the appropriate bone, etc.

Everything works fine. However, the line width on the head is much thinner than that of the body. So I selected the body shape and it displays "2" as the line width. Now when I select the head shape it displays a line-width of "4" -- yet it is thinner than the body.

I'm just kind of baffled by this.

What I'm figuring is that when I imported the head it was very large. So I scaled it down (layer scale). I'm thinking that this also scaled down the line-width. Therefore, even though it's labeled as "4" (bigger than the body's line-width) it's actually displaying as smaller.

Now you might say, who cares, just adjust the head line-width to match that of the body's. But I'm the kind of person that wants to know WHY something happens, and any possible problems it could pose.

I really hope I'm explaining this clearly, lol. I guess I just want to be able to apply a consistent line-width to multiple shapes, and not worry that if I scale something up or down I'm going to have this weird anomaly where a thicker line is listed as being a smaller number.

Maybe I'm making a big deal outta' nothing.

Do you guys have any comments or suggestions on this matter?

Thanks for reading.

Normalise. That's the term I use when I create characters and props which need to share the same line width. Best way always is to create everything in one file, all in the correct size relation to each other, without ever using layer scaling.

If that can't be done, you need to do it the way you did: copy & paste from one file to another. Of course you've noted the obvious: if you scale a layer the line width inside will be scaled as well.

Is that head only one vector layer? In that case don't use layer scaling. Select all points and scale them. You'll notice that this way the line width will stay the same.

Last way is what you already did: adjust the line width by hand. The numbers in the styles panel do nothing, I'm afraid, which bothers me for a long time now.

Slowtiger,

Thanks for the response. Yes, I will try and heed your advice for the future, but sometimes you need to mix and match a bit.

No, the "head" that I placed on the body was not a single shape. It was many shapes within a Group folder. So I had to scale the whole Group layer down in order to shrink it.

So you're saying the only remedy is to match the line-width of the Head and Body by eye and not worry about what number is displayed in the line-width window?

Again, thanks