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- Hardcore
How do I do a circular (*not* radial!) gradient? E.g. make a rectangle and then give it a linear gradient fill. Then Effect > Warp > Arc > 100% Horizontal Bend.
This kinda works - but ideally it'd go in a full circle - 360 degrees - not just 180 degrees.
Plz Help.
- Hardcore0
*bump*
- unknown0
Photoshop > Polar Coordinates. Damn! Cant figure out how to do this in Illy ...
- Hardcore0
Photoshop > Polar Coordinates
Yeah. Tried that one. Thing is that it isn't vector... and I'm importing into flash. :(
*throws down gauntlet*
Anyone else?
- crapmeister0
Brooke knows,
mail her sometime
- unknown0
I just thought of something, using the blend tool, replace spine and expand. Kinda hard to explain and maybe not exactly what you're thinking of, but I can mail you the .ai file ...
- GreedoLives0
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're trying to do:
You're trying to make a donut shape with a gradient fill?
There's a couple of options. You could make a perfect circle donut, give it the radial fill and then use the free transform tool to shape it to your needs. The gradient will transform along with it.
Or you could make the two circles you need, make the stroke on the outer one a certain color, make the inner one a different color and then use the blend tool to make the gradient between the two.
Hope that helps.
- Hardcore0
Both are nice ideas... but not what I'm after... thanks anyway.
The idea is to produce a circular gradient vector... i.e at 0 degrees it is Pitch Black (or any other colour ) and at 359 degrees it is pure white (or another colour). Thus the gradient follows the circular path inside a 'ring' or 'doughnut' type shape.
Thanks for the help so far.
- unknown0
gradient mesh?
- GreedoLives0
oh, i get it now...
gradient mesh.
might take a while..
- Hardcore0
yeah just like that one! How jkob?
- unknown0
Had two boxes, used the blend tool, cut a circle into an open path, used that path as a spine in the beforementioned blend. Might wanna use expand (to convert the gradient to seperate paths) before you export to .swf - i dunno. Check your mail, I'm attaching the file ...