Another stupid question: Line thickness.

[Honacloi]

This may turn out to be the shortest thread ever as I'm sure everyone knows this but me, LOL.

Now I know when it comes to line thickness that I can enter a thickness for a particular layer before I close the vertices, and I know that I can use the line width tool to reduce the thickness later.

However, what often happens is that I find later that I want to increase the thickness of a line. What I have been doing up to now is deleting the layer or the shape within the layer and redrawing it.

I know this is stupid cos I'm pretty sure a program as sophisticated as Anime Studio Pro must facilitate that possibility somehow.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[swrecordings]

just edit the line size in the same way you did when you draw a shape. just use the paint tool and select stroke

[lwaxana]

You can also use the line width tool to increase the line width. Just type in the thickness you want.

[Honacloi]

just edit the line size in the same way you did when you draw a shape. just use the paint tool and select stroke

Unfortunately when I tried that - even choosing stroke - it filled my eyeball black.

My apologies it must be me - sometimes you have to explain things to me like I am a five year old.

I will explain to you what I did action by action so you can laugh out loud at my naivety:

1. Clicked on paint bucket.

2. Clicked 'stroke' (between fill and both at the top).

3. Clicked on the edge of my eyeball.

Thus eyeball went black.

4. Clicked undo.

5. Rang the suicide hotline.

(Just kidding on number 5 )

Please tell me what mistake I am making, cheers.

[Honacloi]

You can also use the line width tool to increase the line width. Just type in the thickness you want.

Thanks for getting back to me.

This doesn't work for me for some reason - have tried this many times to no avail. No matter what line thickness I have entered, it always reduces the line when I click on it.



Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

[lwaxana]

Well I'm using Anime Studio 5, so I'm not sure what has changed with version 6.

But a lot of times when I select a point to change the width, the line will get thinner or go to 0. I think that's because when I click, I'm usually moving the mouse to the left. And the direction that you move the mouse changes the line thickness. If I move the mouse left it gets thinner and if I move it right it gets thicker.

But you don't have to mess with that at all if you just type in the thickness. Type in the thickness. Then hit enter. Be careful not to click around with the line weight tool afterward because you can accidentally change the line weight again.

Could that be the problem you're encountering?

[Honacloi]

Well I'm using Anime Studio 5, so I'm not sure what has changed with version 6.

But a lot of times when I select a point to change the width, the line will get thinner or go to 0. I think that's because when I click, I'm usually moving the mouse to the left. And the direction that you move the mouse changes the line thickness. If I move the mouse left it gets thinner and if I move it right it gets thicker.

But you don't have to mess with that at all if you just type in the thickness. Type in the thickness. Then hit enter. Be careful not to click around with the line weight tool afterward because you can accidentally change the line weight again.

Could that be the problem you're encountering?

Hallelujah! Eureka! Houston, problem solved!

You are a steely-eyed octopus. You are absolutely spot on there - how did I miss that?

Cheers dude - now I can move on with my life.

[n.hurst]

But a lot of times when I select a point to change the width, the line will get thinner or go to 0. I think that's because when I click, I'm usually moving the mouse to the left.

Numerical entry works fine, but it's a bit boring and works absolutely, rather than relative to the existing line width.

A better way is to first use the Select Points (G) tool to select the the points. Then switch to the Line Width (W) tool and make the change by dragging afresh to the left or right.