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Overlapping body shape segments negating fill

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:44 pm
by Matthew
There is probably a ridiculously easy solution to this, but when I have parts of a shape within the same vector layer that overlap, the fill color overlapping area disappears. Think of a ven diagram- the area shared by two shapes will have no fill. I've seen examples in the tutorials provided where this doesn't always happen, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why it happens on my shapes. Any thoughts?

Matthew

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:38 pm
by Lost Marble
Here's a helpful tutorial that discusses this issue (among other things):

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~myle ... bones.html

Basically, if you have a shape that needs to bend back and overlap itself, you need to break it up into multiple shapes.