V0.48 Gradient controls

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chrisjj
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V0.48 Gradient controls

Postby chrisjj » Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:07 pm

Can anyone tell me how to get the gradient direction & scale controls to appear on an object? E.g.

Image

Thanks.

Lazur
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Re: V0.48 Gradient controls

Postby Lazur » Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:12 pm

Change to node editor tool and they should appear somewhere.
Any new gradient's handles are set at the middle of the bounding box in horizontal direction.

chrisjj
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Re: V0.48 Gradient controls

Postby chrisjj » Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:22 pm

Lazur URH wrote:Change to node editor tool


Thanks. Quite who thinks gradients controls are nodes, goodness knows!

Lazur
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Re: V0.48 Gradient controls

Postby Lazur » Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:20 am

Good point.

Those control points are messed up.
For example if you clone an object with a gradient fill, and you want to change the steps in the gradient with the node editor tool, it results in hundreds of unused defs -unused gradient attributes-, and can lead to crash the program.

I'm guessing it is a forced solution.
As with the node editor tool you cannot change the object's transformation values, which are parallel with the style attributes in the codes.
Maybe there is a practical reason for that -the node editor tool is meant to be for finetuning?

chrisjj
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Re: V0.48 Gradient controls

Postby chrisjj » Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:31 am

Urk. Thanks for the warnings.


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