2017-02-14-synfig-split.md 1.1 KB
layout: post title: "Semi-linked region/outline in Synfig" date: 2017.02.14 16:06:10
categories: animation
Here's a short tutorial on how to get a shape in Synfig with partial outlines linked to it. This is pretty much a workaround, but the fix might require either a lot of major changes or a lot of pain with inelegant code.
Bah, no video support! Are you a Lynx user, perhaps?Basic workflow:
- Create the whole shape
- Create outline from region (you can skip this if you created outlines originally)
- Disconnect outline's vertices
- Remove unneeded vertices from it (note that unlooping at this step will make it impossible to link ending tangents, so if you need that don't unloop yet)
- Select both outline and region layers
- For each vertex origin and tangent that you need to link: draw rectangular selection around it (this selects them on both layers) and link
- Unloop outline path if needed
- Done. You can repeat from second step to make more outlines