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Paint toon line attributes
Work with toon lines
Use a modifier to alter toon line and brush attributes
Use Paint Effects with
toon lines
You can assign a Paint Effects brush
to toon lines to create interesting effects, for example, a smeared
toon line, a metallic toon line, and so on.
You can also paint additional toon lines using
a Paint Effects brush. See
Paint additional lines in toon scenes.
To
attach a Paint Effects brush to toon
lines
- Select
the toon lines to which you want to assign a Paint
Effects brush.
- Select
a Paint Effects brush by doing one
of the following:
- Select
Paint Effects > Get Brush and
select a brush from the Visor window.
Any Paint Effects brush can be
used, but those in the Toon folder
are particularly suitable.
- Select
a brush from the Paint Effects shelf.
- Select Toon
> Assign Paint Effects Brush to Toon Lines. The selected
brush is attached to the selected toon lines.
- Edit
the brush attributes. Consider changing the Global
Scale value of the brush to 1 so that you can scale the
line using toon attributes.
TipAfter assigning a
Paint Effects brush with
tubes turned on (for example, a vine brush), in order to eliminate
the “jumping around” that occurs when the toon lines redraw, do
the following:
- turn
on Smooth Profile
- turn
on Resample Profile
- increase
the Min Segment Length for resampling
- set
the Max Segment Length equal to the Min for
resampling
