My Mac's struggling to render even fairly simple graphics when I use a pattern swatch that was create from vector lines. It seems lines get expanded when you make a pattern swatch from them, resulting in a lot of points. I can rasterise the pattern swatch and it runs much faster. Seems like it shoudl be the other way around so I'm wondering... Which do you think is best for pattern swtches- images or vectors?   ... View more

Just in case anyone's making patterns or something.   I wrote this tiny script that rotates all selected objects by random increments of 60 degrees, or 90, or whatever you want. It makes use of modulo for efficiency. Free to use and share.   Please post to this thread anything you create with it as I believe it could produce some interesting patterns, mazes, etc. If you can find a way to do the same thing using just AI native tools please share your technique here. Any bugs / feedback please also post here so I can improve the script.   First, a section of a seamless pattern I made just now using 3 hexagonal tiles and a few tricks (custom line profiles, Roughen filter, etc).   Enjoy!   Runninghead_Design 2020   // Script to rotate all selected objects by set increments with the intention that it will be useful for the generation of pattern tiles. Copyright runninghead.com 2020. If you use this script please send me examples of your work, I'd love to see what you can do with it! Any suggestions / bug reports welcome. // NOTE: Does not currently work through Groupings, so Ungroup your objects before running this script! aDoc = app.activeDocument; aSel = aDoc.selection; nSel = aSel.length;// number of objects currently selected in illustrator increment = Number(prompt("Rotation degree increments (30, 45, 60, 90, etc?)", 60)); for(i=0; i<nSel; i++) { randomAngle = Math.floor(Math.random()*360); rotationAngle = randomAngle - (randomAngle % increment); aSel[i].rotate(rotationAngle, rotationAngle); } // end of script   ... View more

Hi, I downloaded a free action from Daniel Stefanotto at https://dribbble.com/shots/3702541-Freebie-Illustrator-isometric-actions I'm sure I've used it before without issues but for some reason it's got a slight inaccuracy when I use it now: Squares transformed using the action "isometric transform top" end up too narrow, causing "isometric transform left" and "isometric transform right" to not fit. when you try to make an isometric cube. It's a tiny inaccuracy, but very puzzling! All three original squares are perfect squares and all three actions use 86.06% for scaling.   If you start with a 21.167 mm square then the top iso transform action is wrong (short) by 0.114 mm. Doesn't sound like much but for a professional workflow (games, etc) it needs to be far more accurate than that. Not sure if Daniel's maths is off or it's an Illustrator thing?   Here's a grab of the"isometric transform top" action: Maybe I should re-record the actions myself using a value of 86.602% instead? But would that create a transfromed object that would be properly isometric (as isometric is understood in gaes design- some Geometers call it "faux-isometric")? Not good with maths myself so any help appreciated! Thanks.   PS- this tutorial seems to do the whole job without needing scale, which is interesting: https://creativepro.com/quick-tips-for-isometric-artwork-in-illustrator/ ... View more

I'm familiar with pattern brushes in Ai but have not needed to make a new one for a long time. This brush just does not want to behave. It's a simple concept- a hatching shading brush that replicsates the look of small drawing pen lines.   Problem is (see image) that it does not maintain the pattern's aspect ratio when used on the simple test path, which is just a basic path. The brush squashes the pattern to fit and changing the brush settings seems not to help. The original I made the brush from is at bottom left in the screen grab.   Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? 🙂   ... View more

I have watched a few videos on Keyframing and Motion Paths in PP but can't seem to replicate the straight, point to point motion that I would like, though I've seen it done. Simple case: I add a clip to the sequence, set two keyframes at start and end, then either drag the clip directly or set it's position using the X/Y value fields. I can select the keyframes and set Temporal Interpolation to Linear but the Motion Path still shows curved movement. Shouldn't Linear create straight, point to point motion paths? (See grab for example) Thanks. ... View more

Hi,    I'm an absolute beginner with Premiere Pro and I've found the whole process of creating vidoes in it for YouTube very confusing. Firstly: Where can you set/change the dimensions for the Project that you load video clips in to?   You can resize a Sequence but not the Project??   Secondly: Some of my videos will be 20 minutes long so I won't be using 4K output settings but I'd still like 2K, or thereabouts. When I'm exporting I'm setting the output to be 2048x1152. When I redownload my videos from YouTube though I find they're 1280x720, another commonly touted size, regardless of my output settings.   What shoud I be setting as my video dimensions and where do I need to set them to ensure I can produce graphics to the same dimensions?   I'm using some custom imagery, produced to set dimensions, in these videos so it's important to me that I know what size my videos shoud be created at and exported to.   Thanks. PS- Hating Premiere Pro so far but then I hated Illustrator for 10 years before I finally learned it 🙂   ... View more

Just Editing a PDF and I've got some graphic objects (simple boxes), that I'd like to distribute vertically. I recall this used to be available from the Align, etc menu on the right but now I just see Align features but no Distribute. Anyone point me in the right direction please? ... View more