Moving/Repositioning Gradient Fills

spasmodic_cheese · Post by **spasmodic_cheese** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:50 pm

Is there anyway to reposition gradients fills?

They always stuck in the middle(radial) and I cant seem to figure out a way to move them?

Post by **Lost Marble** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:42 pm

Sorry, no, there isn't a way to position a gradient within a shape.

Manu · Post by **Manu** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:20 pm

Until you can reposition gradients directly in Moho, you can try to fake it with masking. It's a bit cumbersome, but better than nothing.

spasmodic_cheese · Post by **spasmodic_cheese** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:07 am

mm thanks for the workaround, btu even that still doesnt give me the functionality I need(scale, and rotate the actual gradient too)

not to worry, i'll just a different style =)

Squeakydave · Post by **Squeakydave** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:44 am

You could always try painting bitmap gradients as per the last tutorial in version 4. I just tried it in 5 and it seems to work even better with the new bone features.
I used XaraX1 to do the bitmaps and saved them out as higher rez to give a bit of extra headroom when zooming and distorting.

spasmodic_cheese · Post by **spasmodic_cheese** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:23 am

Yah i tried doing that (i draw in flash), I really wanted to keep vector ...

ACTUALLY YOU GIVEN ME ANOTHER IDEA!!! brb

ohhh it worked!!!

For anyone who wants to do gradients create a 16x16 PNG of your gradient,
Now import the image into moho and you can scale it to any res you like and the way png renders it will smooth out any pixellaton (the best it can)

then i guess you'll have to mask it...

Why bother? well you can get a big gradient for only a couple of bytes , instead of a massive file size, and the same thing

EDIT :
The above works fine for video render, but flash doesnt render png the right way...so... bugga =P

Manu · Post by **Manu** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:36 pm

So what is the advantage of using a bitmap gradient that you mask as opposed to a vector gradient that you mask?

Just like with the bitmap, you can reposition, scale and rotate the vector gradient seperate from the mask.

Squeakydave · Post by **Squeakydave** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:40 pm

You can have lost of different types of gradients not just the two that Moho supports. Aside from that not much difference.