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I have been given a file to fix for a friend who was using a tablet to draw characters in AS. When I rendered an image the black outline and other line details in the character were completely gone leaving it looking pale and ghost like!!! I could not figure what was happening for ages till I eventually noticed that there was a brush setting used on the outline. Once I removed the brush the outlne re-appeared i the render.

It looks like a combination of line width tool and a brush can have some ugly side effects on rendering in AS. Has anyone come across this one before?

Cheers
D.K

If you could post an example render, I could say more.

Hi Slow.

Here's part of the file. I can't upload the whole thing as it's not mine but this is a good indication of what's happening.

http://www.wienertoonz.com/head.anme

The head orginal layer is with the brush...and the head without brush has the brush removed and renders fine.

Cheers
D.K

Try this: select all in the vector layer of the head, and increase the line width with the W tool. In the render you'll see the applied brush (some weird barbed wire effect).

It is normal behaviour for a brush to replace the vector line - otherwise it wouldn't make any sense.

I think the line width was changed somehow, that's all. Not that the brush was a good choice, IMO, but it's definitely still there.

Overall I think the line width is too small in relation to the project size. As a rule of thumb, try to avoid thin lines which would be only 1 pixel or smaller because they will cause problems in the render or don't show up at all. A line of at least 2 or 3 px width will definitely look better in TV resolution. When I work in HDTV, my minimum size is about 4 to 5 px.

Yes.....I suspect he drew this character with his tablet, probably with a light linewidth setting, then somewhere along the way he adjusted the overall size of the character reducing the line width once again.

Thanks for the feedback Slowtiger

Cheers
D.K