Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist
Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in
Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last
night without much sucess.
~Aaron
14 years, 4 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle
There are a couple of .svg "renderers" for blender (and I think they were probably the scripts you are talking about). I have only played with one of them very briefly. Seemed to work okay, but I can't remember what it was called, and I seem to remember it being kinda buggy, it was probably a year ago that I tried this. Other than that, I can't help you much. But yes, what little I did do was interesting. Blender also had, or used to have, a feature that would export a UV map as an .svg file.
One thing that I have found interesting to do is to make some text (or whatever) in Inkscape, import it into Blender, and then apply a lattice modifier to it. You can deform text into some interesting shapes (and it works better than the Inkscape node sculpting thing), then render a .png file in Blender and then import that back into Inkscape and run trace bitmap on it.
Blender does have it's own built in text capability, but I find it a lot easer to work with text in Inkscape, then import it into Blender for "3D-ifying".
Another neat trick is to make a sort of "sheet" with text cut out of it, then import that into Blender, so you have a large surface with a text shaped hole in the middle. You can then animate a light shining through that hole using the halo feature available with Blender's lighting options. This creates a really cool backlit text effect.
I have also just started to experiment with using Blender's "hooks" feature to animate imported Inkscape .svg files. There are a lot of interesting possibilities there.
--- On Mon, 7/27/09, Maarten van der Velde <Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2657....> wrote:
> From: Maarten van der Velde <Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171...>
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files
> To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 2:40 AM
> Can I ask you a "counter"-question?
> Do you have experience with EXPORTING
> from Blender into Inkscape? There seem to be a couple of
> scripts out there
> that seem to do this, apart from that they don't...?
> Blender & Inkscape
> could be a realy interesting combination. One could create
> a 3d-wireframe in
> Blender, find a nice perspective and then fill it in in
> Inkscape, hence
> retrieving a vector-drawing from it.
>
>
> On 7/25/09 11:16 PM, "Elwin Estle" <chrysalis_reborn@...12...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I am just curious: When you delete an object
> from your .svg file, does it
> > actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not
> display it any more?
> >
> > I do a lot of stuff in Inkscape and then import the
> .svg into Blender for
> > extrusion, etc. I find that sometimes I get
> "extra" objects in Blender when I
> > do this, i.e., the object that was deleted.
> >
> > ...and I am just wondering where these objects come
> from...
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14 years, 4 months
"phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle
I am just curious: When you delete an object from your .svg file, does it actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not display it any more?
I do a lot of stuff in Inkscape and then import the .svg into Blender for extrusion, etc. I find that sometimes I get "extra" objects in Blender when I do this, i.e., the object that was deleted.
...and I am just wondering where these objects come from...
14 years, 4 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle
Thanks for the info! I will try that.
--- On Sun, 7/26/09, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:
> From: Donn <donn.ingle@...155...>
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files
> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 3:32 AM
> On Saturday, 25 July 2009 23:16:15
> Elwin Estle wrote:
> > I am just curious: When you delete an object
> from your .svg file, does it
> > actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not
> display it any more?
> There is a button to open the XML editor/viewer.
> Edit->XML Editor (A little
> window icon with <> in it)
> It's worth watching what happens there as you select and
> edit (and delete) in
> the design window. You can also edit the SVG from that
> window.
>
> > ...and I am just wondering where these objects come
> from...
> You can 'vacuum' the defs File->Vacuum Defs, this cleans
> a lot of gumpf (a
> technical term that I cannot explain without killing you
> first ;) ) out of the
> XML file.
>
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14 years, 4 months
(no subject)
by Daniel Drijard
Hello,
I do not know if this is the right place for my questions. I did
not find a better possibility.
Cordially
Daniel
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14 years, 4 months
Slow performance on 4.5 MB file
by Dave M G
Inkscape users,
I have an Inkscape file that is about 4.5 megabytes in size. It is
essentially an A4 size comic book page.
One layer contains the orginal scanned pencils, which were in PNG
format. The next layer are flat colours, no gradients, just simple paths
with colour fills.
The top layer is the inks, which were almost all created with the
calligraphy pen. This seems to be where the problem is. Even just
locking/unlocking the layer causes Inkscape to pause for many seconds,
maybe 10 or so.
My computer is by no means the latest, but it should handle these file
sizes alright. I use GIMP and Photoshop on larger file sizes without any
noticeable slowdown. (My computer is a 2.8GHz dual processor, with 2 GB
RAM, running Ubuntu 9.04).
Is it normal for a collection of paths created with the calligraphy pen
to be this bulky and slow a system down?
I tried removing the original scan images to try and reduce the file
size, but it has not helped.
Is there something I'm doing inefficiently or wrong, or is it just that
complicated paths can't help but soak up lots of memory.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
--
Dave M G
14 years, 4 months
Logo and banner usage
by Mat
Hi,
I use inkscape create some creative works.
Is it allowed to put some banner like "powered by inkscape" on them?
( like the logo, http://inkscape.org/images/inkscape_button.svg )
After some search, I haven't found pages that clear say how I can use logo,
and where the official location it is.
Would anyone like to answer me here or give me some hint to get the answer?
sincerely, Mat.
14 years, 4 months
Graphic Tablet not able to 'grab' objects
by Alexander Roalter
I'm running yesterday's SVN build, but the same behavior I had now for
over a year:
With the graphics tablet (wacom graphire 4), when using the pen in
"Screen" mode (or "Window" mode, both have the same results - only
"Disabled" shows the normal behavior), I can use the pen to draw lines
and move nodes (F2), but once I switch to move objects (F1), a click on
an object does not select it, only double or multiple times tapping on
it sometimes selects it for me to move it around. at the same time i can
do the selecting and moving with the normal mouse as it was before.
So clearly something is off from the behavior in XInput in Screen mode,
at least it seems the clicks (which are the taps on the tablet) are
interpreted differently. Still, in all other modes (F2 'Node' mode, draw
circles, squares etc.) the tablet in Screen mode works as expected.
Any ideas?
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cheers,
Alex
14 years, 4 months
