Dash-o-Salt In reply to Alecindas [2014-01-16 06:29:51 +0000 UTC]

They do look a bit more like snow than stars, don't they! Don't worry, it's actually not that hard to do if you know how!

I dug through my old research on stars, and here's what I have (see below). Probably a good thing for me to do, because I needed to figure it out again anyway.

Look at this video, around the 11:43 mark, this is the video that first helped me to figure out how to do them:

screencasters.heathenx.org/wp-…

He likes to have stars with 5 corners, but pony stars look more like they have 4, so set Inkscape to use the 'star' tool, set 4 corners, the spoke ratio to .044, and draw a star.

Make sure you turn the fill ON and the stroke OFF for the object after you've drawn it.

You'll end up with what looks like a black X-shaped object with very sharp points.

Use Ctrl-Shift-C to turn it from an object into a path. Delete the four interior nodes near the center of the star to give the interior rounded edges.

At this point, you have something that could be used as a star by sizing it appropriately. The curves could be a little skewed though, making the star look slightly off center, so feel free to fix those if you feel like it.

If you hold down Ctrl, you can size the star appropriately and put it where you want. You'll also want to change the file to white.

You can blur the star to make it look more like the stars in the show via the 'Blur' slider on the 'Fill and Stroke' panel. Somewhere between 1 and 2.5 is probably sufficient for Blur.

Now, if you want to duplicate and create more stars quickly, go to Edit -> Clone -> Create Tiled Clones to pull up the cloning dialog. You can use this to create large clusters of stars with randomized sizes/orientations.

Do remember that blur is computationally hard for Inkscape to display, so I would highly recommend hiding the layer with the stars on it when you're not looking at them, or putting the stars in last.

Hope that helps! Not sure it's as useful without a video tutorial, but I tried!

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Alecindas In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2014-01-16 15:42:29 +0000 UTC]

Okay, I've found that for my purposes it's small circles, but if this ever comes up I'll be sure to use this!

Thanks!!!!

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to Alecindas [2014-01-17 01:22:08 +0000 UTC]

Sure thing!

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Alecindas In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2014-01-17 01:45:47 +0000 UTC]

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2014-01-16 06:35:41 +0000 UTC]

And by 'change the file to white,' I actually meant 'fill.' Silly typos.

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to deli73123 [2013-12-12 01:48:56 +0000 UTC]

Not sure what 'tagging' does, so I probably won't mind.

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deli73123 In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2013-12-12 01:52:06 +0000 UTC]

Well, it's basically this thing you do where you tell 10 things about yourself, answer 10 questions, come up with 10 more questions, and send them to 10 more people.  xD

This should more or less explain it:

deli73123.deviantart.com/journ…

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to deli73123 [2013-12-12 04:05:15 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, I already did this earlier. I'll have to think about whether I'll do it again as I'm quite busy right now.

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deli73123 In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2013-12-12 14:47:58 +0000 UTC]

Okay.  It's not compulsory or anything

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to deli73123 [2013-12-07 06:38:44 +0000 UTC]

Nice! Great work!

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deli73123 In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2013-12-07 17:22:02 +0000 UTC]

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to deli73123 [2013-12-06 01:43:52 +0000 UTC]

Oh, no worries, I'm not fishing for badges. I sent you one back.

Sure, I could proofread your fic. I'm a bit of a grammar nazi though, up front warning and all that. I'll send you a note with my email address.

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deli73123 In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2013-12-06 02:14:54 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

I'm a grammar nazi too, and that's exactly what I need in an editor

Also, don't worry that it seems a LOT like Return of Harmony.  I've got plans to steer it in a different direction, perspective-wise, from the episode.  Including a few sections from the perspective of Discord (won't THAT be fun to write? )

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to deli73123 [2013-12-06 04:13:55 +0000 UTC]

Check your mail, I've finished going over it.

Should be interesting to see what you come up with!

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deli73123 In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2013-12-06 15:41:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!  Excellent job

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to deli73123 [2013-12-04 02:48:54 +0000 UTC]

Good luck! I haven't done Rainbow Dash yet, but someday I plan to do all the ponies. ALL THE PONIES!

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deli73123 In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2013-12-04 15:46:43 +0000 UTC]

*flutteryay*

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to sue9000 [2013-06-12 02:17:32 +0000 UTC]

Well, that's unfortunate, but you gotta do what you gotta do! Good luck! Hope to see you again sometime!

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to sue9000 [2012-11-17 19:04:13 +0000 UTC]

That's awesome!

Pinkiemobile is fine.

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to sue9000 [2012-10-30 03:00:12 +0000 UTC]

That's very kind of you!

How about a crazy idea?

Let's have Pinkie Pie flying the crazy contraption in this Youtube video of early flight attempts (the device at ~38 seconds):

[link]

She's finally found a way to catch Rainbow Dash in the air.

There's no hurry, as I haven't been able to do much of anything the last month or two (and likely won't for the next few months - buying a house is so much work!)

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sue9000 In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2012-10-30 20:02:45 +0000 UTC]

I will do my best at drawing that. It might come out a little steampunkish though. Is it all right if I fit it in after the Mando/Michelle drawing I'm doing here [link] ? The Octavia drawing is gonna take a while so I'll fit it in before then.

And I wish you luck with buying a house!

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to sue9000 [2012-10-31 02:53:40 +0000 UTC]

Oh, no worries. You can do whatever style you like (Steampunk sounds cool, actually!)

There's no rush! Do whatever you feel like doing! I just think it's cool I'm on the list at all!

Also, thanks! Buying a house has turned out to be very, very aggravating (short sales are no fun).

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sue9000 In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2012-10-31 20:41:40 +0000 UTC]

Alright I'll be working on it soon.

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to sue9000 [2012-11-01 00:52:37 +0000 UTC]

Cool!

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to Arctic-Lux [2012-08-29 01:07:32 +0000 UTC]

No worries, I like to reciprocate.

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Dash-o-Salt In reply to Socksthewarrior [2012-08-17 03:19:38 +0000 UTC]

Hey, no worries. You're already doing fine.

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Socksthewarrior In reply to Dash-o-Salt [2012-08-17 03:21:14 +0000 UTC]

HAHA well thank you

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