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90Sigma — Tutorial: Mitre joins
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Published: 2012-07-19 08:43:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 5288; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 0
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This is something I see very often.Do not try and draw points for continuous lines manually. Increase the mitre limit! You're saving yourself a lot of time and trouble and the result looks much better.
It is the angle between the two handles that determines the length of the mitre. The sharper the angle, the longer the mitre will need to be.
In Inkscape:
- Press Ctrl + Shift + F to bring up the Fill and Stroke dialog
- Go to the Stroke style tab
- Increase the mitre limit
That's all there is to it!
Of course, setting up an excessively long point via a mitre join is not a replacement for doing joins such as the back legs properly.
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It doesnt really change anything for me! When it on 5, it like on the first image, but whatever if the number is 20, 50, or 10, the effect is the same
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Ok, that's it, I'm going to try Inkscape (or ponyscape).
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Now I REALLY must try Inkscape.
#ThisChangesEverything
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You can do this in Illustrator as well (and probably any program that does SVG files). But I only have Inkscape, so I don't know how to do this in other programs.
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Yes, you probably can, but I hate Illustrator right now.
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I only use Inkscape anyway 
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next on to cutting out eye holes (that took me a lil bit to work out)
or fading in werd shape eg square into a hollow heart shape
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I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean?
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for eye holes eg: make a circle then cut out to holes -how to-
and the other for scenes how to get the edges of the scene to
have full colour and fade to a heart shape of star to see to pony person etc;
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For eyes, this might help you:
Tutorial: Clipping and Masking (refer to the Clipping part).
I'm still not sure what you mean by the second part, sorry.
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im farely upto date on inkscape now ,
just sugesting some hard todo's made simple for others
the 2nd im not shor how to explain it um? mlp s2e17 4:30-ish
sorta like that but reverse the shade direction out going in
not in going outwerd -sorta thing
but my way to do the 1st step -eyes made supa easy-
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Drawing the heart shape wouldn't be too hard by making use of the Difference or Exclusion operators.
As for 'inverting' it so the spikes 'flow' inward... hmm... can't think of a simple way to do it off the top of my head.
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guess its just a trial and error to get it
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oh wow, thankyou so much
You have no idea how much this small tip will help me 
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I'm pretty sure mitre joins are a standard SVG feature. So if SAI (I'm not sure what that program is) does SVG, it should be able to do this.
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It may also be helpful to mention that the distance between the two arms of the anchor that makes the joint is what determines the length of the point. The further the two arms are from one another, the shorter the point will be.
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Good point! I updated the description. (Though I used angle instead of distance.)
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