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Derek
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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 Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:15 pm Post subject: Line Shadow Tool idea. |
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Hi all,
I sent this idea to Alfred and he asked that I post it for other to see and to offer further comment:
I was cruis'n through the think tank and looked at Jacques Pochoy's Line Shadow Tool request and a thought occurred to me.
Why not have the line angle and length a dynamic thing? The idea would be to click on a target line and drag away in the direction (the angle) and to the length of the desired shadow lines. The tool would create and show live all the parallel shadow lines that would be at the same angle and same length of the line being created by the drag.
This could be the end of the tool process but you might also consider having the tool continue by moving the mouse away from the release point. This would have the effect of dynamically increasing and decreasing the spacing between the shadow lines. A final click would complete the action.
[img]http://members.optusnet.com.au/pcbullpen/Shadow.tif[/img]
IE: by drawing any one of the shadow lines in this picture, all the others would be created automatically.
Derek.
PS: I previewed this post and the link showed rather than the image. I hope it works when I post it. |
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Derek
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Andy Caldwell
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
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Location: Sterling, VA
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Like that idea for a shados line tool.
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Derek
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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OK, images need to be jpg of gif.
Here is the image I tried to post.
Thanks for the info Mike. |
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ftribel
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
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Location: Paris, France
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 1:18 am Post subject: |
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For landcape drawings, representing a pitch in plan, a tool like this one would be very useful. I would like to be able to obtain an alternance of long and short lines (determinated lengthes) and the possibility for the master line to be dashed or not.
Tried to send a file, but no way (jpg, 64 ko..) |
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pbacot
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
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Location: Northern California
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 9:39 am Post subject: |
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I did something like this with current wildtools in a click and key.
No interactive control of shadow length or direction though...
I would add an attachment but I gave up. what gives?
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Jai Cheswick
Joined: 30 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 3:51 am Post subject: Shadow line tool |
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A tool that does all of these things ( in the other posts) would be brilliant.
It would also be great to be able somehow create shadows shaped differently for differnt objects.
ie.cone cylinder cube, oak tree, pine tree, shrub - these would all have differnt looking shadows ...
and if they could be filled / coloured just like all other objects even better.
Jai
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