I do promise to rewatch the company's tutorials and check out some other people's tutorials soon.
My question this time is how to combine images. For example, if I create two shapes within the same layer, how do I combine them perfectly to make a single shape? Right now, I've made two circles. One is wide horizontally and the other wide vertically. I want to combine them to make a head (Big mouth, rounded head). Yet, everytime I delete lines, the image loses its fill and its circular form. I've tried to add extra points, which does help keep the fill, but there are still two individual shapes, and the invisible lines still show. How do I create one shape out of two?
Combine Shapes
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Itsa_Secret
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Itsa_Secret
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Well, your tutorial did help me figure out on how to make movements for characters, so for that I thank you. However, the "make a shape" tool didn't do what I was wanting to do.
This is a better way to explain what I'm wanting. I'm making the Red Cross with two seperate rectangle on the same layer. I have my horizontal and my vertical rectangle. I want to make one shape. I don't want to make a single shape only after I publish my movie. I want it now. I'm needy that way (ha, ha). I've tried adding points and deleting lines, but that distorts the perfect right angles and gives me problems with filling the shape with a single color. Hiding the lines is okay, but if I want to add creative details to the cross, the slightly less visible lines tend to confuse me.
So, is there a way to "flatten" all shapes within a single layer to make a single, unified shape?
Thank you for your help.
This is a better way to explain what I'm wanting. I'm making the Red Cross with two seperate rectangle on the same layer. I have my horizontal and my vertical rectangle. I want to make one shape. I don't want to make a single shape only after I publish my movie. I want it now. I'm needy that way (ha, ha). I've tried adding points and deleting lines, but that distorts the perfect right angles and gives me problems with filling the shape with a single color. Hiding the lines is okay, but if I want to add creative details to the cross, the slightly less visible lines tend to confuse me.
So, is there a way to "flatten" all shapes within a single layer to make a single, unified shape?
Thank you for your help.
What you're asking for is "boolean operations" on shapes, that is adding, subtracting, and so on. (In Illustrator it's called "expanding".)
I agree, it would be nice sometimes, but AS doesn't offer it. Furthermore, the Beziér point model AS uses will make it more difficult to retain those nice 90° angles.
Your red cross is simple enough to be build by hand with use of the grid. Be sure to convert all points to corners. (Usually I start wit a rectangle, then add points as many as I need, and place them where I want.)
I agree, it would be nice sometimes, but AS doesn't offer it. Furthermore, the Beziér point model AS uses will make it more difficult to retain those nice 90° angles.
Your red cross is simple enough to be build by hand with use of the grid. Be sure to convert all points to corners. (Usually I start wit a rectangle, then add points as many as I need, and place them where I want.)
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Itsa_Secret
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Is this still true today for ASP 9? There are no "Fazek" tools or any script add-ons to merge shapes? Thanks ahead.slowtiger wrote:What you're asking for is "boolean operations" on shapes, that is adding, subtracting, and so on. (In Illustrator it's called "expanding".)
I agree, it would be nice sometimes, but AS doesn't offer it.
Re: Combine Shapes
In one of the videos for ASP 10 it shows being able to do this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBaY16q ... e=youtu.be
Around 1:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBaY16q ... e=youtu.be
Around 1:23
Re: Combine Shapes
Itsa Secret, you should be able to do a red cross using the vector drawing program.
1. On a vector layer, use the Draw Shape Tool (E) - the icon has a triangle, square and circle on it - to make a square the same size as you want your cross to be. Hold down the shift key while dragging to keep the shape square. Now you have a simple square with 4 points and four lines.
2. Using the Select Points tool, select the whole square (all four points). With those points selected, go over to the SCRIPTS drop-down menu at the top of the screen, and choose Draw, then Split Shape, and fill in a value of 2, which I think is the default.
Now you should have a square with four lines and twelve points, the original four, and two more on each side.
3. Use point selection tool to select the whole shape again, and then click on the Curvature tool (C), and set all points to sharp corners (click on the pointy corner button, top of the screen). You need to do this so that when you scale the corner points inward, they make nice corners, instead of curves.
4. Use the point selection tool a third time, but now to select ONLY the four original corner points. If you hold down shift, you should be able to select them one at a time and get all four.
5. Use the scale points tool (S) to scale the four outer corners inward (smaller) until they form your cross.
6. Last, select the whole cross and click on the create shape tool (the little kidney bean looking thing) if your color is preset to the red you want, clicking on CREATE at the top of the screen) will create a nice red cross shape.
Hope this helps.
1. On a vector layer, use the Draw Shape Tool (E) - the icon has a triangle, square and circle on it - to make a square the same size as you want your cross to be. Hold down the shift key while dragging to keep the shape square. Now you have a simple square with 4 points and four lines.
2. Using the Select Points tool, select the whole square (all four points). With those points selected, go over to the SCRIPTS drop-down menu at the top of the screen, and choose Draw, then Split Shape, and fill in a value of 2, which I think is the default.
Now you should have a square with four lines and twelve points, the original four, and two more on each side.
3. Use point selection tool to select the whole shape again, and then click on the Curvature tool (C), and set all points to sharp corners (click on the pointy corner button, top of the screen). You need to do this so that when you scale the corner points inward, they make nice corners, instead of curves.
4. Use the point selection tool a third time, but now to select ONLY the four original corner points. If you hold down shift, you should be able to select them one at a time and get all four.
5. Use the scale points tool (S) to scale the four outer corners inward (smaller) until they form your cross.
6. Last, select the whole cross and click on the create shape tool (the little kidney bean looking thing) if your color is preset to the red you want, clicking on CREATE at the top of the screen) will create a nice red cross shape.
Hope this helps.