Hmm, yes. Not sure varicolor will really cut it for some of the metallics or gem colours especially, as varicolor always looks paler and faded because of the way the system applies it.
You'd need two varicolor eggs for dragons: one with metallic lighting and one with matte lighting (which mostly works out to the size of the highlights).
@JulianDracos, you can often get a similar effect to a gradient with a bitmap fill style. You have to prepare the gradient and ship it associated with the drawing, though, which is a bit of a pain. You also might end up using a shaded polygon to get things pointing in a particular direction or an interior edge striping effect for bullseye things, but it's often sort of doable. I do agree that it would be very nice if CC3+ supported native gradient fill styles in the same way that it supports bitmaps. It's been on the wish list for a while now.
There's a Buddha-like figure in part 1 made of white marble, and the second one shown above is a fox.
There are no smaller symbols of that kind in Japanese Temple or Asian Town because it is a city style, and at that scale most statues would be really tiny - the foxes certainly.
However, I will have a think about how to sort some of these limitations out in the long run.
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Ok - varicolour eggs ;)
What if you need a rainbow colored dragon? I really wish CC3 would allow gradients.
Hmm, yes. Not sure varicolor will really cut it for some of the metallics or gem colours especially, as varicolor always looks paler and faded because of the way the system applies it.
You'd need two varicolor eggs for dragons: one with metallic lighting and one with matte lighting (which mostly works out to the size of the highlights).
@JulianDracos, you can often get a similar effect to a gradient with a bitmap fill style. You have to prepare the gradient and ship it associated with the drawing, though, which is a bit of a pain. You also might end up using a shaded polygon to get things pointing in a particular direction or an interior edge striping effect for bullseye things, but it's often sort of doable. I do agree that it would be very nice if CC3+ supported native gradient fill styles in the same way that it supports bitmaps. It's been on the wish list for a while now.
Let me see what I can do with varicolour first.
I also need to remember that I need to do more Creepy Crypt stuff! LOL!
I also need to remember that I need to do more Creepy Crypt stuff! LOL!
But you know we'll ALWAYS come up with other things you COULD be doing as well, Sue 😉
Working on the statuary a lot of people asked for.
Is it wrong that I want you to do a giant gold Buddha and some stone foxes so I can use them in the Japanese Temple style?
There's a Buddha-like figure in part 1 made of white marble, and the second one shown above is a fox.
There are no smaller symbols of that kind in Japanese Temple or Asian Town because it is a city style, and at that scale most statues would be really tiny - the foxes certainly.
However, I will have a think about how to sort some of these limitations out in the long run.
And obviously shocked there's no wyvern statue 😉🐲
Yet 😁
Sorry, Wyvern! I moved onto shaped sarcophagi, but I hope you can find a use for some of these?
I'm nearly there with the cemetery stuff now. I just need to do the wall and gates to go in that blank bit near the bottom.
Looks just like yours!😁