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Customizing shapes

Customizing shapes

- [Voiceover] Sometimes the shapes we use aren't exactly the way we want them so we need to find out how to customize them afterwards. Let's start off by drawing an arrow. When you draw it, it comes out as this double-sided arrow. There are controls to set each end, so we could say, have a circle on one end or a box, and in each case, you can drag the handle and it will snap to being a square in this case. Let's set no end on the back of the arrow. At the front, we can make it more or less pointy. We can change the size of the end and the thickness of the arrow, and we can change the shape of the end of the arrow to a barb or to a chevron. Let's put this back to a regular arrow. So, let's say we have to have this pointing at something in our scene but we want it to be a curved arrow. There's no way of making it curved directly from the controls. Once we've got the thickness and the shape of the end that we want, we can then click on this button 'Convert to curves'. This turns it into…

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