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Drawing Paint Effects strokes

Drawing Paint Effects strokes - Maya Tutorial

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Drawing Paint Effects strokes

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- Carrying on from the previous movie. We've got a single paint effects tree in the scene and we'll use that to illustrate how strokes work. This first brush or tree that we've created is too big for the landscape. We want to reduce its global scale, but it may be confusing as to where you need to change that global scale. So to illustrate, I'll go back into the menus to generate and load the template brush settings. And this once again, determines the settings for the stroke you're about to create. To change the parameters of an existing stroke or brush, you'll need to go to the attribute editor. Select the tree and open the attributes with control A and remember we have a transform, a stroke, and a brush node. Select that brush node. And we can change the global scale here. Set it to a value of 20. And now the object is the correct size relative to the landscape. Once we're happy with the parameters of a particular…

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